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6. How can you test if a compund is optically active?
- cross your fingers and hope
- If they rotate a plane of polarised light
- add NaOH
- If the rotate a plane of light
7. Why?
- because thats how chemistry works
- because planar ion can be attcked by nucleophile from either side
- because planar ion can only be attacked by nucleophile from one side
8. Define a racemic mixture
- contains equal quantities of each enantiomer of an optically active compound (50/50)
- contains similar quantites of each enantiomer of an optically active compound
- contains only 1 enantiomer of an optically active compound