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JEE Advanced 2020 Paper 1 · Chemistry · General Organic Chemistry and Isomerism · hard

Only the isomers of C5H10 (acyclic alkenes and cycloalkanes, counting stereoisomers separately wherever they exist) are considered.

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Only the isomers of C5H10\mathrm{C_5H_{10}} (acyclic alkenes and cycloalkanes, counting stereoisomers separately wherever they exist) are considered. Which of the following is/are correct?
  1. A. The acyclic alkenes account for 77 isomers in all, counting geometric isomers
  2. B. The total number of isomers, structural and stereo, is 1313
  3. C. Exactly 33 of these isomers are optically active
  4. D. The cycloalkanes account for 88 isomers in all
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Answer: B

Enumerate the constitutions and then the stereoisomers. Acyclic alkenes: pent-1-ene, pent-2-ene (the EE and ZZ forms), 2-methylbut-1-ene, 3-methylbut-1-ene and 2-methylbut-2-ene, giving 1+2+1+1+1=61+2+1+1+1=6 isomers, so (A) is wrong. Cycloalkanes: cyclopentane, methylcyclobutane, ethylcyclopropane, 1,1-dimethylcyclopropane and 1,2-dimethylcyclopropane. The last exists as the achiral cis (meso) form and the trans form as a pair of enantiomers, i.e. three isomers, so the cycloalkanes total 1+1+1+1+3=71+1+1+1+3=7 and (D) is wrong. The overall total is 6+7=136+7=13, so (B) is correct. The only optically active isomers are the two enantiomers of trans-1,2-dimethylcyclopropane, so the number is 22 and (C) is wrong.
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