Meso Compounds

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Meso Compounds

(see image) A molecule that has chiral carbons, but the whole molecule is NOT chiral because both halves cancel each other out. EX: Imagine folding a butterfly down the middle. If the left wing and right wing match perfectly, the butterfly is symmetrical.

<p>(see image) A molecule that has chiral carbons, but the whole molecule is NOT chiral because both halves cancel each other out. EX: Imagine folding a butterfly down the middle. If the left wing and right wing match perfectly, the butterfly is <strong>symmetrical</strong>.</p>
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A Meso compound is its own mirror image

so it cannot have an enantiomer.

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The top and bottom half of a meso compound

are the same and cancel each other out

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A meso compound will have more than 2

chiral carbons