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Today, we are told that the four -methyl -xychylodein acetic acid resolves into two anantomers.
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Then we want to answer questions about why this specific molecule would be chiral and what geometric similarities it would have with allines.
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So let us first look at the structure of this four -methyl -hexylidin acetic acid.
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It does have a six -membered ring inside of the compound.
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It also has a methyl group, as well as this double bond with a carbon, which is very, very important to our answers.
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So the first thing we now want to address is why is this molecule considered to be chiral? so there's three main reasons why.
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The first being that there's a lack of symmetry, which is just a requirement for chirality.
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There is a non -superimposable mirror image, so the mirror image of this molecule cannot be superimposed on the original molecule, which checks off the box here...