What is an example of an achiral compound?
1 Answer
Mar 21, 2018
A compound that is not chiral.
Explanation:
Chiral compounds exhibit chirality . Such compounds are optical isomers. They have the ability to rotate plane polarised light either clockwise or anti-clockwise. They can be identified by having four different groups or atoms attached to a central carbon atom.
Achiral compounds do not have four different groups or atoms attached to a central carbon and so do not rotate plane polarised light.
