Are these chiral, achiral, or meso

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Are these chiral, achiral, or meso?

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When a carbon atom is attached to four different substituents, then the carbon is called asymmetric carbon. When there is absence of any symmetry element in a molecule then it is said to be the chiral and the region where chiral appeared is known as chiral centre.

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