Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9781305580350
Author: William H. Brown, Brent L. Iverson, Eric Anslyn, Christopher S. Foote
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 3, Problem 3.19P
Interpretation Introduction

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The chirality of butane in gauche conformation has to be shown and the resolution possibility of butane in room temperature has to be checked.

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Chiral center:

A tetrahedral atom that is bonded to four different groups is called as chiral center.  The most commonly known tetrahedral atom is carbon.

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