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Enantiomers are two stereoisomers that are related to each other by a reflection: They are mirror images of each other, which are non-superimposable.
Human hands are a macroscopic example of stereoisomerism.
Every stereogenic center in one has the opposite configuration in the other.
Two compounds that are enantiomers of each other have the same physical properties, except for the direction in which they rotate polarized light and how they interact with different optical isomers of other compounds.
As a result, different enantiomers of a compound may have substantially different biological effects.
Pure enantiomers also exhibit the phenomenon of optical activity and can be separated only with the use of a chiral agent.
In nature, only one enantiomer of most chiral biological compounds, such as amino acids ( except glycine, which is achiral ), is present.

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