General, Organic, & Biological Chemistry
General, Organic, & Biological Chemistry
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ISBN: 9780073511245
Author: Janice Gorzynski Smith Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 15, Problem 15.68P
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(a)

Interpretation:

The chiral center of vitamin E 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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(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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