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After being passed up for a promotion and then getting into a heated argument with his son, a man disappears. He shows up two weeks later in another town with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He appears to be suffering from __________


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Achiral

Describing a molecule that is superimposable on its mirror image, indicating it has no handedness or enantiomers.

Enantiomers

Molecules that are mirror images of each other but cannot be superimposed on each other, much like left and right hands.

Diastereomers

Stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other and have different physical and chemical properties.

Cahn-Ingold-Prelog

A set of rules used for the nomenclature of stereoisomers, aiding in the description of the spatial arrangement of atoms within molecules.

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