Re: Meso Compound
cancel (hardinkm@plu.edu)
Wed, 02 Apr 1997 13:52:40 -0800 (PST)
Mark-
I think that 2,3-Dibromobutane itself, as an alkane, is considered a meso
compound. Whether or not it is achiral depends on how it is drawn. In
other words, it is superposable on it's mirror image depending on how the
atoms are arranged around the stereocenter. So therefore, it's not just
one enantiomer which is considered a meso compound, but the whole alkane
itself, because of the way the atoms can be arranged.
-Kate
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997 schliema@plu.edu wrote:
> On page 207, when the book describes what a Meso compound is, I'm not sure
> I quite understand what the Meso compound is. What I mean is, are all 3
> of the molecules of 2,3-Dibromobutane called Meso compounds or is it just
> the one molecule that is seperate from the other two in the book? The
> book wasn't quite clear on this. So if anybody could help, please clarify
> this for me.
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> Thanks,
> Mark
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