One or more options correct
Select the correct statement(s) about the number of stereoisomers (including optical isomers) or optical activity.
- A. 3-Methylpent-2-ene exists as exactly two stereoisomers
- B. 1,2-Dimethylcyclopropane exists as exactly two stereoisomers
- C. Penta-2,3-diene () is optically active
- D. 1,3-Dimethylcyclobutane exists as exactly three stereoisomers
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Answer: A, C
(A) is correct: has no stereocentre and each alkene carbon carries two different groups, so only the and isomers exist. (B) is wrong: 1,2-dimethylcyclopropane has a cis form (meso, with a plane of symmetry) and a trans form (chiral, existing as two enantiomers), so exactly three stereoisomers exist, not two. (C) is correct: penta-2,3-diene has the two terminal carbons each carrying and in perpendicular planes, which gives axial chirality (a three-dimensional model is non-superposable on its mirror image). (D) is wrong: both the cis and the trans isomers of 1,3-dimethylcyclobutane have a plane of symmetry, so there are only two stereoisomers, both achiral.
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