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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Whimsy and alkene isomerization in the Wendlandt Lab

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Isomers are compounds that share identical chemical formulae but differ in structure or configuration, affecting their physical and chemical properties. A common example is glucose and fructose; both isomers of C6H12O6 are metabolized differently by our bodies due to a different arrangement of the same atoms. The process of transforming a compound into any of […]