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Geometric isomerism How geometric isomers arise These isomers occur where you have restricted rotation somewhere in a molecule. The only examples of this required at A' level involve the carbon-carbon double bond. Think about what happens in molecules where there is unrestricted rotation about carbon bonds - in other words where the carbon-carbon bonds are all single. The next diagram shows two possible configurations of 1,2-dichloroethane. These two models represent exactly the same molecule. You can get from one to the other just by twisting around the carbon-carbon single bond. These molecules are not isomers. If you draw a structural formula instead of using models, you have to bear in mind the possibility of this free rotation about single bonds. You must accept that these two structures represent the same molecule: But what happens if you have a carbon-carbon double bond - as in 1,2-dichloroethene? These two molecules aren't the same. The carbon-carbon double bond won't...

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