Optical isomers occur when a carbon atom has four different atoms or groups of atoms attached to it. This pattern allows<br>for two different ways of making the attachments, each the<br>mirror image of the other (Figure 3.2C). Such a carbon atom is<br>called an asymmetric carbon, and the two resulting molecules<br>are optical isomers of one another. You can envision your right<br>and left hands as optical isomers. Just as a glove is specific for a<br>particular hand, some biochemical molecules that can interact<br>with one optical isomer of a carbon compound are unable to<br>“fit” the other.
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