Talk:Meso compound

Latest comment: 10 years ago by Vokesk in topic Untitled

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Wow there's a lot of parentheses. Vokesk (talk) 14:37, 28 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Meso compound/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

The image Meso_compound_without_plane_of_symmetry.gif that was present in the previous versions, allegedly showing a meso compound with 3 chiral centers and no plane of symmetry, is not a meso compound. The compound is (2R,4R)-2,4-dimethoxy-3-methylpentan-3-ol; hence, C-3 is not chiral, and the compound on the right is identical to its left counterpart. It has just been rotated 180° around a vertical axis.

I therefore marked the last statement as 'dubious'.

--Tommysander (talk) 14:08, 17 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

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