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How to determine whether a compound is optically active or not. please help me.i am very much confused

How to determine whether a compound is optically active or not.


please help me.i am very much confused 

Grade:12th Pass

1 Answers

ASHISH SHYORAN
22 Points
12 years ago

A compound is optically active if the following both conditions are satisfied:

1. There should be no plane of symmetry in the compound's structure.

2. There should be no point of symmetry in the compound's structute.

 

CHECK THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS IN 3-D

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