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Interpretation: The two enantiomers of the amino acid leucine, HOOCCH(NH2)CH2CH(CH3)2, has to be drawn and each enantiomer must be labelled as R or S.
Concept introduction: Enantiomers are the non-superimposable mirror images of each other. Optical isomers are given R and S configuration by sequence rule that is by assigning 1 to 4 priorities to the substituents attached at the chiral center on the basis of their
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