How do you determine if a molecule is a meso compound?

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anor277
Apr 19, 2016

By the presence of an internal mirror plane.

Explanation:

Typically a meso compound is a symmetric #RS# compound. Naturally, inversion results in an equivalent #SR# compound. You should use models to satisfy yourself that this is in fact the case.

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