enantiomer in English

noun
1
each of a pair of molecules that are mirror images of each other.
Such isomers are called enantiomers and molecules that have enantiomers are said to be chiral or to show chirality.

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1. L-Alanine is the L-enantiomer of Alanine

2. Androsterone is a major metabolite of testosterone and androstenedione along with the enantiomer etiocholanolone

3. According to some research, the (+)-enantiomer is more effective in treating malaria, and the (–)-enantiomer specifically binds to adenosine receptors in the central nervous system, which may explain some of its psychotropic effects.

4. The naturally occurring optically pure enantiomer (+)ABA was a more potent germination inhibitor than synthetic (−)-ABA.

5. Enantiomer-enriched alpha-,omega amino alcohol derivatives, their production and use as insect- and mite-repelling agents

6. Optically active 1-aminoindan derivatives are prepared by reacting a N-benzyl analog of the desired compound with an enantiomer of mandelic acid.

7. Both enantiomers may be separated by chiral resolution of the racemic mixture, and the (S)- enantiomer may be specifically obtained by fermentation of fumaric acid.

8. The yield of desired enantiomers can be increased by transformed racemic resolution, the diastereomeric salt being precipitated when the undesired enantiomer is racemised in the presence of (hetero)aromatic aldehydes.

9. When Chiral compounds are created from aChiral compounds, the products are racemic unless a single enantiomer of a Chiral co-reactant or catalyst is involved in the reaction

10. L-Ascorbate is the L-enantiomer of Ascorbate and conjugate base of L-ascorbic acid, arising from selective deprotonation of the 3-hydroxy group.Required for a range of essential metabolic reactions in all animals and plants

11. Abscisic acid (ABA) is a single 15-C sequiterpenoid hormone that was originally isolated from Abscising cotton fruits and maple dormant buds; the (+)-cis ABA enantiomer is the naturally active form found in plants

12. The term Chiral / ˈ k aɪ r əl / describes an object, especially a molecule, which has or produces a non-superposable mirror image of itself.In chemistry, such a molecule is called an enantiomer or is said to exhibit Chirality or enantiomerism.The term "Chiral" comes from the Greek word for the human hand, which itself exhibits such non-superimposeability of the left hand precisely over the

13. Prostaglandins and intermediates thereof can be prepared readily, efficiently and industrially advantageously by separating an (E)-hydroxyvinyltin compound from the (E, Z)-enantiomer thereof prepared by the reaction of a hydroxy-1-algin with a tin halide, converting the same into a vinylcopper complex of general formula (VI) conducting the conjugate addition of the complex with $g(a), $g(b)-unsaturated cyclopentenone, and deblocking the product.