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Organic Chemistry

how can we know that an organic compound is optical active or not?

ex.(+)-sec-butyl alcohol is optically active or not and how?

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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer15 Years ago

due to presence of chiral carbon it shows optical isomerism so for any molecule to

be chiral it should have chiral carbon...