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Q5 How many optical isomers are possible for tartaric acid(COOHCHOHCHOHCOOH)?
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) none of the above

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Dr.House ·

3 isomers are possible. out of this two are enantiomers and third s not optically active because of internal compensation. this third one is called as meso tartaric acis.

i think u can see that if u draw fischer projection formulae

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big looser ......... ·

so answer should be 2 ????

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