Questions tagged [pseudochiral]
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Why is α-truxillic acid not meso compound? [duplicate]
I know that for a compound to be meso it should be optically inactive and should have multiple chiral centres but in case of α-truxillic acid, it is optically inactive due to centre of symmetry being ...
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How the tertiary carbons of cyclohexane are assigned the stereo-descriptors (r)?
We assign the stereodescriptors R and S for chiral centres - carbons and other atoms, as per the set of sequence rules (CIP rules).
The pseudochiral centres are given the descriptors (r) & (s) ...
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