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Offline Rabvi

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chiral and achiral question
« on: October 15, 2009, 09:00:24 PM »
hello can someone help me I keep getting these wrong

1) Submit as your answer the structures of all the chiral molecules among the ones shown

http://img48.imageshack.us/i/chiral.jpg/

I know the 2nd and 5th compound can't be chiral since its symmetrical and 1, 3, 4 are but i'm not sure

2) Submit as your answer the structures of all the achiral molecules among the ones shown. (Each of your choices should be achiral in any conformation, not just the one shown.)

http://img48.imageshack.us/i/achiral.jpg/

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Re: chiral and achiral question
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2009, 12:12:08 AM »
How about you identify all of the chiral centers in all of the molecules first.

For your first question is there a plane of symmetry in the 6th molecule?

For your 2nd question you probably won't get much help with that since you didn't show any attempt at solving it on your own.

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Re: chiral and achiral question
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2009, 12:13:14 AM »
yeah sorry about that I already figured out how to solve both question but forgot to delete the question

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Re: chiral and achiral question
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2009, 12:22:56 AM »
yeah sorry about that I already figured out how to solve both question but forgot to delete the question
It's all good. You should post your results and how you figured it out so when other people come through they can see how you did it- it will help them and that is what this forum is all about!

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Re: chiral and achiral question
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2009, 10:38:19 AM »
I agree, please post your results. I'm still stuck on this whole Chirality thing :(

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