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Offline w451208

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Chirality
« on: October 31, 2010, 09:33:36 PM »


Is this correct? I was under the assumption that achiral meant the carbon bared 2 identical substituents. 
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Re: Chirality
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2010, 10:17:55 PM »
Then why would you chose A as the answer? Each carbon on that molecule has 4 different substituents
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Re: Chirality
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2010, 10:23:52 PM »
 I did not choose the answer it is apart of a test bank I am studying.
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Re: Chirality
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2010, 10:43:36 PM »
Test banks are sometimes incorrect
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Re: Chirality
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2010, 11:02:08 PM »
Compound I is a "meso compound" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meso_compound

If you rotate one end of that molecule, you can see that there is a mirror plane symmetry passing by the middle of the C-C bound. If there is a mirror ---> not chiral
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