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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

thank you sir but i have a problem that

a carbon atom contaning -H, deuterium is same because they have same chemical property then how are they chiral?

H

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Cl- C -OH

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D(deuterium)

Profile image of Nitin Mukesh Mishra
16 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Chetan Mandayam Nayakar
15 Years ago

having the same chemical property does not imply that the compound is not chiral, because chirality is a physical property.