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stereoisomers

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stereoisomers (steˈ·rē·ō·īˑ·s·merz),
n.pl compounds with identical chemical composition and atomic bonding that differ in the spatial arrangement of atoms.


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San Diego, CA) entered into an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement for the development and commercialization of valnoctamide stereoisomers with Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel).
Natural vitamin E does not necessarily contain all four tocopherols (alpha, beta, delta, and gamma tocopherols) and these compounds are not stereoisomers of one another but actually differ in the number and position of methyl groups on the chroman ring.
More familiar to chemists are geometric isomers, in which the same atoms arrange in different spatial patterns, and stereoisomers, in which atoms arrange range in different orientations around an atomic hub.
 
 
 
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