How would you tell the difference between chiral and achiral structures?
For example:
1. #H_3C CHBrCH_2CH_3#
2.#PCl_2BrCH_3^+#
3.#Cl_3C CHFBr#
4.#HC# triple bonded to #C CF_3#
5.#CH_2Cl_3#
6.#HPClBrCH_3^+#
7.#F_3C CBr_3#
8.#H_3CBr# ?
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1 Answer
Well, the best advice is to simply make a model of the mirror images of each compound....but given such a string of compounds this is not really practical...
Explanation:
Now for a chiral molecule we look for a carbon that has four DIFFERENT substituents...
The isomer on OUR LEFT (as we face the page) is appropriately the
And so we look at the structures of the given molecules to try to identify any potential chiral centres..with a star