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Isomerism March 11, 2011

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Heck, Edward, you left the butter out of the fridge all weekend. It was rancid.

Sorry, I left late on Friday, I forgot.

So that was what was with that awful stench?

Do not exaggerate, go. I already apologized. And look, the smell of nail polish is not that great.

Hey, guys? Speak, Joel! Arriving at the shop? No, my car came in today.

Around here all right?

All quiet. Apart from the stench of rancid butter and those doubts that keep coming into our community of chemistry. Look at this here!

Hi, guys. I’m Clara, Belem, and I am with a question.

I have to do a group work to school, my part is about isomerism.

Can anyone help me? Where did this term “isomer”?

What is? E isomer space? Does anyone know what it is?

Isomerism is a good topic.

Write here, Eduardo. Isomerism – Greek iso, equal, and mere parts.

Occurs when two different compounds have the same molecular formula.

And now? Where do we get an example of isomerism?!

Here, right here in the room.

Really?!

The rancid butter when it gets like this, contains butanoic acid, a compound isomeric to ethyl ethanoate,

a solvent found in nail polish formulation that Luiza is using.

The isomers are out there, everywhere.

Your nail polish remover, for example, has propanone as major constituent that has the formula C3H6O, propanal of the same.

If the atoms present in the compound isomers are the same, what changes?

Change the arrangement of atoms in molecules.

That’s right. There are two types of isomerism. One refers to the structural plan and another to the spatial arrangement of atoms.

How so?

Let me give an example. You two, get your stuff and put on the bench.

Why? Go ahead, I’ll show the difference.

See? The elements are the same, but you got one way and another Luiza.

What changes is the arrangement. This structural arrangement is the plan or simply flat isomerism.

Well, I understand the theory.

For example, the butanoic acid ethyl ethanoate and have the same formula, C4H8O2, but the structural arrangement of their atoms is different in each.

Just watch to see that they are distinct physiological functions, because changes in the structural arrangement of atoms gives changes in functional groupings.

And the other kind of arrangement? The spatial arrangement of atoms.

This other type of arrangement can call only spatial isomerism. Let me see how to explain.

Look at those two chairs. They are equal, are not they? Are.

If you overlap one another, you can see that the spatial arrangement of them is different.

The claws were on opposite sides.

Ah, so it’s like his hands, which look alike, but when they overlap, is a thumb on one side and one to the other.

That’s right!

Look, we have these two molecules, derived from but-2-ene.

Dividing these molecules in two planes separated by the dotted line,

we see that in a molecule, the methyl and the hydrogen atoms attached to unsaturated carbons are in the same plane of the molecule.

While in these same molecule two groups are in opposite planes.

That alone is sufficient for the two molecules have different physical properties.

And how do I distinguish the two?

When the molecule has the same groupings in the same plane, the compound is called “cis”. If they are in opposite planes, is called trans.

Thus, we have the cis-but-2-ene and trans-but-2-ene.

If we put on the cis isomer, the molecules will not match.

Understood. You already gave examples of day-to-day isomer flat with acetic acid in vinegar and propanone I have in my enamel. But space and isomerism?

In medicine! The spatial isomerism is of great importance in the efficiency of remedies.

Look Luiza, the photos I took.

You took a picture of yourself in the bathroom mirror, Eduardo, what an idea!

Gee, is he an isomer of itself?

Today we learned that the isomerism is: when different compounds have the same molecular formula.

And we found the application of the isomers in medicine and in day-to-day.

Keep an eye on all directions, because “There is chemistry!

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