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Optical isomerism is the phenomenon by which certain compounds rotate the plane of polarised ligth in a characteristic way when it is passes through their solutions.
Enantiomers are stereoisomers that are related to each other as non-superimposable mirror images.Such stereoisomers differ only in the orientation in which they rotate the plane of polarised light.
A mixture of two enantiomers in equal proportions have zero optical activity(racemic mixture)

2006-11-19 03:04:42 · answer #1 · answered by fm02 2 · 0 0

Optical isomerism refers to the property of chemicals being able to affect the plane of polarised light.
I'm not sure there is exactly a word called enantiomerism, but i do know enantiomers refer to a pair of isomers with same molecular formula (specifically, two!).

2006-11-18 20:25:40 · answer #2 · answered by polarIS 2 · 0 0

Optical isomers rotate plane polarised light in opposite directions.
Enantiomers are those molecules having non-superimposable mirror images.
One usually leads to the other!

2006-11-18 21:15:46 · answer #3 · answered by Gervald F 7 · 0 0

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