Essential Organic Chemistry, Global Edition
Essential Organic Chemistry, Global Edition
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ISBN: 9781292089034
Author: Paula Yurkanis Bruice
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 4, Problem 55P
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The configuration of naproxen active ingredient has to be identified.

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R and S nomenclature: it is used to assign the molecule using CIP rules.

The CIP rules are as follows:

  • Select the chiral carbon and assign the numbers according to the decreasing atomic mass of atoms attached to it.
  • If the numbering follows clockwise direction then the molecule is termed as R and if it follows anti-clockwise direction then molecule is termed as S.

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