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Enantiomers are mirror images; diastereomers are not

Meso compounds are achiral despite stereocentres

Nucleophiles add to the carbonyl carbon

Aldehydes are more reactive than ketones (sterics)

Extraction splits by solubility, chromatography by affinity

TLC: more polar compound travels a shorter distance

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Priority: carboxylic acid > ester > amide > aldehyde > ketone

Alcohol, amine and thiol rank below the carbonyls

SN1: tertiary, racemises, two steps, carbocation

SN2: primary, inverts, one step, strong nucleophile

IR: broad O-H near 3300, sharp C=O near 1700

NMR: shift, splitting (n+1) and integration

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