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Transcribed Image Text:The structure of a chiral isomer is given. Draw the mirror image isomer. Use wedge-and-dash bonds for the substituent groups,
and be sure that the bonds convey tetrahedral geometry.
Draw the mirror image.
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Draw the skeletal structure, then
determine where the substituents should
go to produce the other stereoisomer
(mirror image). Be sure that the skinny
end of both the wedge and dash bonds
point to the chirality center.
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