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Absolute configuration of sulfur in phenyl styryl sulfoxide
Provide absolute configuration to sulfur atom.
I know that oxygen atom will get the highest priority by Cahn–Ingold–Prelog rule, but what about the next priority? I believe it should be phenyl, but ...
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Is methyl phenyl sulfoxide optically active? [duplicate]
I am concerned about the stereogenic centres. But in this compound there is no chiral centres present. Sulphur is $\mathrm{sp^2}$-hybridized, so it cannot be chiral anyway. But I can see there is no ...
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Sulfinate R/S configuration
How to determine the configuration of the attached chiral compound? It can be represented with two Lewis structures, in the one to the left, the =O substituent has the biggest priority, while in the ...
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