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thanks Learning Goal: To identify chiral molecules, understand optical isomerism

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Learning Goal: To identify chiral molecules, understand optical isomerism, and draw enantiomers. Optical isomers, or enantiomers, are nonsuperimposable mirror images of each other. For example, 2-chlorobutane and its mirror image (Figure 1) are optical isomers. Gloves are an example of common objects with this property. Right and left gloves are mirror images, but a right-handed glove does not fit on your left hand, and vice versa. In contrast, the letter "A" is an example Identify which of the following molecules are chiral and which are achiral. Drag each item to the appropriate bin.

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chiral-2-bromobutane,2 butanol achiral--butane,1-bromobutane,2-propanol