Stereochemistry 1

1) (d)

1) A

2) D

3) Compare n c which compounds r similar

2 changes at the chiral centre lead to retention of config

4) b ??? (Doubtful)

utaara how (a), please point out the chiral carbon.????[7]

i suppose manmay is correct in 1 ----its (d)

@Manmay and Pranav

The qs asks for optically inactive compound

In d there is 1 chiral C

So it is optically active

@ Asish u r correct

but in ques 2, there is no chiral centre , so how it is optically active ???

Anyone for ques 4 ???

compund 2 give atropisomerism
(optically active due to absence of plane and centre of symmetry)

Atropisomers are stereoisomers resulting from hindered rotation about single bonds where the steric strain barrier to rotation is high enough to allow for the isolation of the conformers.[1] The word atropisomer is derived from the Greek a which means not and tropos which translates as turn. The name was coined by Kuhn in 1933,[2] but atropisomerism was first detected in 6,6’-dinitro-2,2’-diphenic acid by Cristie in 1922.

Oki defined atropisomers as conformers that interconvert with a half-life of more than 1000 seconds at a given temperature.[3] Atropisomers are an important class of compounds because they display axial chirality. They differ from other chiral compounds in that they can be equilibrated thermally whereas in the other forms of chirality isomerization is usually only possible chemically.

1.a due to aminew inversion perhaps........

Tushar zaroori thodi hai ki chirality chaiye for optical activity...we need one basic prerequisite, that is the substrate should be non superimposable on its mirror image. I suppose this happens here because the phenyl groups become non-planar as asish said. Molecules can be chiral without possessing a chirality center.

Wait..I found a little something that will help in this case.