Question #5af71

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Nov 3, 2016

1-Isopropyl-4-methylcyclohexane is not a chiral compound, and it has no chiral centres.

Explanation:

The structure of 1-isopropyl-4-methylcyclohexane is

Structure

#"C1"# and #"C4"# are not chiral centres because they each have two identical groups: the #"-CH"_2"CH"_2"-"#on each side of the ring.

Since there are no chiral centres, the compound is not chiral.