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Offline fighter127

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Chair conformer chirality?
« on: November 16, 2014, 05:25:46 PM »
Is the following compound chiral or achiral? I thought the compound was achiral but I'm not sure if this is right. I didn't see any asymmetric centers to indicate chirality but maybe I wasn't looking at it correctly. Can someone help me out?



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Re: Chair conformer chirality?
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2014, 05:41:00 PM »
You're right, it's achiral.
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Re: Chair conformer chirality?
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2014, 06:58:32 AM »
You can draw a mirror plane right through the middle of it (bottom left to top right as drawn), so it must be achiral.
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