Organic Chemistry › Help with Epimers
Which of the following carbons represents the stereogenic center between the given isomers?
Carbon 4
Carbon 5
Carbon 1
Carbon 2
Carbon 3
Which of these describes an epimer?
One of a pair of stereoisomers, which differ in configuration at only one stereogenic center
Two or more stereoisomers of a compound which have different configurations at one or more (but not all) of the equivalent stereocenters and are not mirror images of each other
Stereoisomers that are not superimposable mirror images
There are no such things as epimers.
The given molecules are __________.
stereoisomers
constitutional isomers
conformers
identical
None of these