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68, 70, nd 2. . oH et otis“ i le CH -CH ~ CHCH, (iv) CH ~CH ~CH CH,CI Optically active Optically inactive ‘Thus structures (i) and (iii) are optically active, each has one chiral carbon; so each structure will give one ‘enantiomeric pair; thus total enantiomeric pairs will be two. The structure CHs CHBrCH BrCOOH has two different chiral carbon atoms, hence number of enantiomers (optically active forms) is 2"= 22 = 4 Gls Ces CH; rl | CH; ~ CH- CH-CH,CH3 CH, -C-CH,CH,CH, 2,3~dimethylpentane ity {has chiral C) 2, 2~dimethylpentane (No chiral carbon) ots (CH - CH -CHCH,CHCH, 2-Methylhexane (No chiral carbon) Only structure CH) =CHCHOHCH, has a chiral carbon Due to cis-addition of H, to the triple bond, the reduced product has a plane of symmetry and hence is optically inactive. Geometrical isomerism due tothe presence of a double bond whose each carbon has two different substituents, Optical isomerism due to presence of a chiral carbon, ‘Ar-CHOHCOOH he 1, 75, nN. 7B, 81. 84, 85, cay 6: cH- GA-cHrct, a) Gy 2-Chloro-4-methylhex-2-ene Geometrical isomerism due to C = C, each C has two (it) > (i) >(i. As the size ofthe ring increases, the internal angle increases accordingly. As a result the deviation from the tetrahedral angle and hence the angle strain increases as the size of the ring increases. Thus, planar cyclodecane is expected to have the maximum angle strain.

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