How to draw all stereoisomers of 2-bromo-4-methylpentane?

1 Answer
Feb 20, 2018

Well, you got the one chiral centre...

Explanation:

For #H_3C-stackrel("*")CHBrCH_2CH(CH_3)_2# the starred carbon is the chiral centre...if you draw this out in the familiar wedge, dash fashion, the interchange of either 2 substituents about the chiral centre gives the enantiomer. Interchange again, and you get the enantiomer of an enantiomer, i.e. the original compound.

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See here for background. And please remember that to demonstrate chirality properly you really should have a model in front of you, one that you can play with and consider...