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Grade 12th PassOrganic Chemistry

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

please help me.i am very much confused

Profile image of pankaj gupta
14 Years agoGrade 12th Pass
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Profile image of ASHISH SHYORAN
14 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