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gamerninja213
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Absolute configuration
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February 24, 2013, 09:25:36 PM »
Sorry. This might seem like a very stupid question, but when assigning absolute configuration for glyceraldehyde, why is it that CHO gets priority over HOCH2 ?
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The CHO carbon has two bonds to oxygen and one bond to hydrogen. The HOCH
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carbon has two bonds to hydrogen and only one bond to oxygen. Since the CHO has more bonds to an element of higher atomic number, it has priority.
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February 25, 2013, 03:11:27 AM »
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahn%E2%80%93Ingold%E2%80%93Prelog_priority_rules
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