Other Physical Properties of Stereoisomers

A sample composed only of one enantiomer has physical properties that are identical to the properties of a sample composed only of the other enantiomer if all measurements are made with nonpolarized fight and without the use of chiral reagents. Thus, enantiomers have the same melting point, boiling point, index of refraction, and so on. Mixtures of enantiomers may have different physical properties from those of either enantiomer alone, however. In 

Fischer projections of isotactic, syn-diotactic, and atactic polypropylene segments. 

Data from Lide, D. R., Ed. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 71st ed. CRC Press Boca Raton, FL, 1990 p. 3-475. 

Goodman, M. Top. Stereodiem. 1%7, 2, 73 Jenkins, A. D. Pure Appl. Chem. 1981,53,733. These data are from the compilation by Quirk, R. P. /. Chem. Educ. 1981,58,540. 

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