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Newmann to Fischer
« on: March 29, 2010, 12:36:23 AM »
How do you convert a Newmann projection of a molecule into its Fischer projection. Can a plane of symmetry be identified from Newmann projection?

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Re: Newmann to Fischer
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2010, 09:59:14 AM »
Newmann projection can be easily converted to the sawhorse form... just a little bit of visualization.
Now it's easy to convert sawhorse into Fischer projection. Please let me know if you're comfortable with both these techniques, because they are quite important.
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Re: Newmann to Fischer
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2010, 11:16:49 AM »
Not quite. Can you please suggest a good online source from where I can learn these? My books don't discuss this topic well, rather goes straight into problems.  :(

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Re: Newmann to Fischer
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2010, 05:02:47 AM »
For Newmann to sawhorse, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_projection. The picture is self-explanatory.

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