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1 HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT ADVANCED LEVEL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY NOTES- C CHAKWANA ISOMERISM -Isomers are compounds with the same molecular formula but different structures. -Isomerism can be divided into two types; structural isomerism and stereoisomerism. -These in turn can be further subdivided: -There are three types of structural isomerism; positional isomerism, chain isomerism and functional isomerism. -There are two types of stereoisomerism: geometrical isomerism and optical isomerism. -The different types of isomerism are summarised in the following diagram: a) positional isomerism In amides, acyl chlorides and carboxylate salts, the functional group is always at the end of the molecule and so these molecules cannot show positional isomerism. The other molecules, however, can show positional isomerism: Eg