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If there is no rotation of plane light by a compound in a specific solvent, though to be chiral, it may mean that:
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the compound is certainly meso
Meso compound like meso tartaric acid is optically inactive due to the presence of planar molecular symmetry.
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Meso compounds are molecules having multiple stereocenters, but their mirror images are superimposable. Meso compounds have an identical mirror image whereas enantiomers have a non-superimposable mirror image.
Related Theory
Meso compounds are molecules having multiple stereocenters, but their mirror images are superimposable. Meso compounds have an identical mirror image whereas enantiomers have a non-superimposable mirror image.
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