Molecules are considered stereoisomers when:

A. they rotate plane-polarized light to the left only.
B. they have the same chemical and structural formulas but the structures are not superimposable.
C. they have three different groups bound to a central carbon.
D. they have structures differing only by one group.
E. they contain no chiral centers.


B

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