File talk:Thalidomide-enantiomers.png

R or S isomer?

There is a lot of confusion here: the left image says it is the R enaNtiomer (note the missing N), the right image ths S enantiomer. But then the text caption says the opposite.

My analysis: left image is the S isomer (hydrogen would be in front given the way the wedge bond is drawn, and priority is N > CO > C). Right image is the R isomer. So the text is right, the image is wrong.

--AngelHerraez (talk) 16:25, 24 July 2012 (UTC)