Question

With examples of amino acids, explain the type of isomerism that exists in amino acids.​

Answer 1

Answer:

All amino acids are stereoisomers with the exception of glycine (because it has no chiral centers) and the two types are enantiomers and diastereomers

Explanation:

Not sure how in depth you need but the most fundamental categories are:

Enantiomers: non superimposable images which means that they cannot be placed on top of one another and look perfectly identical and instead are structurally the same but flipped in the opposite direction. An example being D-alanine and L-alanine.

Diastereomers: The molecules are superimposable which means they have an identical structure that will look the same placed on top of one another however, the compounds attached to the structure are placed in different orders an example being, L-isoleucine and D-allo-isoleucine (compounds in same place but isoleucine has two hydrogens positioned forward while allo-iso have one positioned forward and one positioned in the back)