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Grade Upto college levelOrganic Chemistry

Why are allenes optically active even though they do not have any chiral centre

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16 Years agoGrade Upto college level
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Profile image of askiitian.expert- chandra sekhar
16 Years ago

Hi sudarshan,

In allenes there is no plane of symmetry...because of the 2 pi bonds are not in the same plane....

therfore different substituted atoms containing allenes are optically active.