General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry - 4th edition
General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry - 4th edition
4th Edition
ISBN: 9781259883989
Author: by Janice Smith
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 15, Problem 62P
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(a)

Interpretation:

The chiral center of vitamin E should be labeled.

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The compounds whose mirror images are nonsuperimposable to each other is said to be chiral compound. There is no plane of symmetry in chiral compounds

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(b)

Interpretation:

The chiral center of vitamin C should be labeled.

Concept introduction:

The compounds whose mirror images are nonsuperimposable to each other is said to be chiral compound. There is no plane of symmetry in chiral compounds

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