Question

how to identify asymmetric carbons?

Answer 1

Say you had

CH3 - CH2 - CHCl-CH3

You want to see if the third carbon is asymetric,
If you look only at the ATOM it is directly attached to. It is attached to
1 H,
1 Cl
2 C
If you did it this way then you would say it in not asymetric, because there are 2 Carbon attached.

However, this particular Carbon is asymmetric, what you have to do is think of everything on the other side of the bond as a group. If you do this you get
1 H
1 Cl
1 CH3 group
1 CH2CH3 group
It is easy here to see that it definately has 4 different things attached to it.

Answer 2

Hope this helped. Medal plz

Answer 3

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