Are All Stereoisomers Optically Active? [Solved]

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Are All Stereoisomers Optically Active? [Solved]

Some of the stereoisomers have a plane of symmetry and are not optically active; they are meso compounds. For two chiral centers, the configurations are R,S, which is the same as S,R because of the plane of symmetry. The isomers R,R and S,S are optically active and are enantiomers.

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