Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9781118875766
Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig B. Fryhle, Scott A. Snyder
Publisher: WILEY
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The stereoisomeric properties of the products of chlorination of (S)-2-chloropentane are to be explained.

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Stereoisomers are characterized for the molecules that have same molecular formula and arrangement of atoms but differ in the spatial orientation of groups in the molecule.

Stereoisomers are further divided into enantiomers and diastereomers. Diastereomers are the stereoisomers that are non-superimposable and non-mirror images of each other.

A meso isomer, or the meso compound, is a stereoisomer which has a superimposable mirror image.

A meso compound is optically inactive due to presence internal compensation

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