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Organic Chemistry 8th Edition

Organic Chemistry (8th Edition)

Book Edition8th Edition
Author(s)Brown
ISBN9781305580350
PublisherCengage Learning
SubjectChemistry
Section 3.2: Stereoisomerism
Problems
Section 3.3: Naming Chiral Center-The R,S System
Section 3.4: Acyclic Molecules with Two or More Stereocenters
Section 3.5: Cyclic Molecules with Two or More Chiral Centers
Section 3.6: Typing All the Terminology Together
Problems
Section 3.7: Optical Activity- How Chirality Is Detected in the Laboratory
Section 3.8: The Significance of Chirality in the Biological world
Chapter 3, Section 3.2, Problems, Exercise 3.1
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Each molecule has one chiral center. Draw stereorepresentations for the enantiomers of each.

 

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Each molecule has one chiral center. Draw stereorepresentations for the enantiomers of each.

 

(a)

 

 

 

 

 

(b)

 

 

 

 

Explanation

 If four different substituents are attached to a carbon center then the center is called a chiral center. Here carbon atom bonded with four different substituents ,i.e. -OH , -H , -CHand Cyclopentyl group hence it is chiral carbon. Compound having same molecular formula but orientation of atom in space is different are called stereoisomer. If two compounds are mirror image to the each other and non superimposable then they are called enantiomers. Here to draw enantiomer, in one chiral compound first make -OH group above the plane and -H below the plane and in other chiral compound, make -OH below the plane and -H above the plane. Both these compounds are enantiomer to each other. 

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