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Then, I have to circle two chiral carbons.
I know how 1-chloro-2,3-dimethylpentane
structure looks like but I don't know how to expanded.

2007-04-03 09:07:37 · 2 answers · asked by shortydidi03 2 in Science & Mathematics Chemistry

2 answers

Chiral carbons will be those carbons that have something different attached to each of the 4 bonding sites. In your problem, that would be the 2 and 3 carbons.

Draw the normal structure for the alkane. For the chiral isomers the methyls will be up or down. You have 4 possible combinations. Up-Up, Up-Down, Down-Up and Down-Down.

2007-04-03 09:14:50 · answer #1 · answered by reb1240 7 · 0 0

To expand the structure, just draw all the places where the lines meet as carbons (put a C there).

Then fill in as many Hs as needed to make 4 bonds for each C.

A chiral carbon will have 4 different things bound to it.

2007-04-03 16:14:37 · answer #2 · answered by shalleep 3 · 0 0

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