Friday, August 12, 2011

Is 1,3-dichloropropane a chiral molecule?

A molecule is chiral if it lacks an alternating axis of symmetry. Often, a molecule can be determined to be chiral if it has an atom (usually carbon) with four different substituents. In 1,3-dichloropropane, each of the three carbons has two hydrogens, so none of them is chiral. The molecule itself is not chiral either.

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