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Given this question, i figured there's three important questions we should ask ourselves before we even attempt to answer this question.
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So, the first question we should be asking ourselves is, what is the stereo center? a stereo center, in this case, for our sake, is, is...
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The stereo center is one, or not even when, it is, is...
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A carbon atom that is connected to four distinct groups for atoms.
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Now these stereocenters will usually have an sp3 geometry.
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So it'll look something like carbon, bonded to a hydrogen, to a hydroxyl group, to a c .h .2, and to a, i don't know, let's just say like a boron for fun.
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So that is a chiral center because we have four distinct groups or atoms.
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Okay.
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We have a first question.
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Now we have to consider what a stereoisomer is.
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A stereoisomer is a molecule that has the same molecular.
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Formula but differs in spatial orientation.
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So what does that mean? well, if we pull my example from the first question with our carbon, hydrogen, hydroxyl group, carbonyl group, and or boron, so right now we have it in this orientation but what if we changed it to i don't know like our boron's up here or let's keep our hydrogen in the same place so hydrogen is here carbons there now our ch2 criminal group is there our hydroce group is there and and our boron is there...