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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

it is necessary to have two chiral center in a meso compound

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12 Years agoGrade 12
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12 Years ago

A compound is called as meso only if it has plane of symmetry or centre of symmetry. It does not depend on the no of chiral centres. So just check for pos or cos.