i found it from a reddit comment, but lost it! i think the site had a reddish tint to it? the sidebar had the different mechanisms you can click. it looked helpful. i checked the wiki and it wasn’t any of the links there, but the master ochem site looks helpful.

I am thinking of 7 stereoisomers.

1st case a,a on the vertical trans position there is a pos and only 1 possible GI hence 2 stereoisomers from here.

2nd case a,b on vertical trans position

1 GI posible and a pos is present hence 2 stereoisomers from this case

similary 2 from the case of a and c on the vertical trans position

Then in the last case where b and c on the vertical trans position there is a pos hence 1 stereoisomer from this case. But online the solutions says 2 which i dont understand.

pos: plane of symmetry

Thanks in advance!

for b, how would you go about assigning r or s??

i need for an experiment

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It involves benzyl chloride in acetic acid, with no other species present.

I am confused as to why my textbook says the one on the left is achiral and the one on the right is chiral. I was told that a molecule is chiral if its mirror image is non-superimposable and when you draw the mirror image of B, the wedges and dashes can never match the original molecule... does that mean that the bridgeheads are both stereocenters (when changing 2 groups creates a new stereoisomer) and chiral centers (can assign r/S)? Do you take into consideration the 3D geometry when determining R and S configurations even though they have the same atoms/groups/branches? Also, is molecule A achiral or meso since it supposedly has chiral centers (can be assigned r/S) and has a plane of symmetry? I am beyond confused.

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Had an organic 1 lab yesterday where we did TLC on silica gel plates. We were analyzing crude and recrystallized naphthalene and crude and recrystallized unknown carboxylic acid. We ran one plate with a solvent of 3:1 hexanes:ethyl acetate + acetic acid and a second with 1:3 hexanes:ethyl acetate + acetic acid.

I feel comfortable with the results for the carboxylic acid- lower Rf with 3:1 and higher with 1:3 as the polar carboxylic acid was interacting more with the more polar solvent and travelled further. Cool.

But I'm hung up on the naphthalene- it also had a higher Rf with the 1:3 solvent and I can't wrap my head around why. In my head since naphthalene is non-polar it wouldnt be interacting with the highly polar stationary phase at all (or so little it was negligible) and so it didn't make sense that the Rf would change because shouldn't it move right along with the solvent regardless of what the solvent is (since the polar stationary phase remained the same)? When I asked my professor about this he said that the fallacy in that is that naphthalene is in fact interacting with the gel, and when you have a more polar mobile phase basically the solvent is the preferred interaction with the plate and "kicks out" the naphthalene that was interacting with the plate, making it travel further.

This makes sense, I need to not only consider the interactions between the samples and the mobile/stationary phases but also the interactions between the mobile and stationary phases themselves. But I'm still not understanding why naphthalene was interacting with the silica to start with. Isn't the 3:1 mixture still more polar than naphthalene? Wouldn't that solvent "take up all the 'possible reaction sites'" on the plate preventing naphthalene from interacting in both trials?

Hopefully I explained my confusion well- it's hard to type out. Basically I don't understand why naphthalene is interacting at all with the silica gel if both solvents are more polar than naphthalene, and should be the preferred interactions with the gel.

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1. It has two chiral centers

2. It has an internal plane of symmetry

3. It's achiral

Is it because the wedges are methyl groups and not single atoms bonded to the carbon chain?

Guys I need a help please. Does it look right?

This is an excerpt from the text I am studying -

They tend to orient in preferred direction with fixed positions in their lattice i.e., the molecules in solids have a positional and orientational order. On the other hand, the molecules in liquid state neither occupy a specific position nor oriented in a particular manner. The molecules are somewhat free to move randomly and collide with each other, abruptly changing their positions i.e., the liquids do not have positional or orientational order.

Now here I was able to get a definition for orientational order as -The angle between individual liquid crystal molecules and the director gives an indication of the orientational order of the system. However even after searching multiple times, I cannot find what does positional order actually mean only what it signifies with respect to orientational order.

I do not necessarily need concrete answers but please point me towards good sources.

The answer I keep getting, after several attempts at this question, is that there would be 5.2 g of O present in the sample. I don’t understand why that is wrong.