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Ch.21 - Organic Chemistry

Chapter 21, Problem 38c

Determine whether each compound exhibits optical isomerism c.

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Hello everyone today. We are being asked to determine if optical islamism is present in the fallen compound. Well, this term simply just means that we must look out for chirality where a carbon atom is bonded to four different groups. And this is just an example of what a carbon might be bonded to. So for our first carbon that's attached to this chlorine, it's attached to an implicit hydrogen. This chlorine atom, of course as well as this ch two group and this C. H. Group. So the first carbon does exhibit optical shamanism for our second carbon down here is also attached to an implicit hydrogen, a bromine, This CH two group and this ch group. So we can therefore conclude that yes, there is optical I summaries um because chirality exists in the compound and with that we have our answer, I hope this helped. And until next time.