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Interpretation:
Molecular models are to be built for the molecule shown in Figure 5-13a and its mirror image. By overlapping the two molecules, it is to be verified that they are nonsuperimposable. Also, the bonds shown in Figure 5-13b need to be rotated, and it is to be shown that the resulting molecules are superimposable.
Concept introduction:
An atom and its mirror image are directly opposite each other on opposite sides of the mirror. An atom and its mirror image are identical distances away from the mirror. When the mirror is perpendicular to the plane of the page, dash–wedge notation in the mirror image is identical to that in the original molecule. A molecule is chiral if the mirror image considering every orientation possible does not superimpose with the original molecule.

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Organic Chemistry: Principles and Mechanisms (Second Edition)
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