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Transcribed Image Text:Learning Goal:
To identify chiral molecules, understand optical
isomerism, and draw enantiomers.
Optical isomers, or enantiomers, are
nonsuperimposable mirror images of each other. For
example, 2-chlorobutane and its mirror image (Figure 1
) are optical isomers. Gloves are an example of
common objects with this property. Right and left
gloves are mirror images, but a right-handed glove
does not fit on your left hand, and vice versa. In
contrast, the letter "A" is an example of an object that
is identical to its mirror image.
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Properties of optical isomers
Optical isomers generally have the same properties, differing only in their chemical behavior in a chiral
environment (for example, with enzymes) and in the direction in which they rotate plane-polarized light.
The / (levorotatory) isomer of an enantiomer pair rotates polarized light in a counterclockwise direction,
whereas the d (dextrorotatory) isomer rotates polarized light the same amount, but in a clockwise
direction. A racemic mixture is a mixture with equal amounts of the I and d isomers.
Part B
You have a racemic mixture of d-2-butanol and /-2-butanol. The d isomer rotates polarized light by
+13.5°. What is the rotation of the polarization of light of your mixture?
Express your answer in degrees.
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Part C
Two products, structural isomers of each other, are possible for the bromination of butane via the
reaction
CH3CH₂CH₂CH3 + Br₂
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heat or light
One of these products exhibits optical isomerism. Draw this product. Assume mono substitution.
Draw the molecule on the canvas by choosing buttons from the Tools (for bonds), Atoms,
and Advanced Template toolbars. The single bond is active by default.
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