1. Tardigrade
  2. Question
  3. Chemistry
  4. The number of optical isomers of CH3CH(OH)CH(OH)CHO is:

Question Error Report

Thank you for reporting, we will resolve it shortly

Back to Question

Q. The number of optical isomers of $ C{{H}_{3}}CH(OH)CH(OH)CHO $ is:

KEAMKEAM 2006

Solution:

$ \begin{matrix} C{{H}_{3}} \\ | \\ H-{{C}^{*}}-OH \\ | \\ H-{{C}^{*}}-OH \\ \begin{align} & | \\ & CHO \\ \end{align} \\ \end{matrix} $ Possible number of optical isomers $ ={{2}^{n}} $ $ ={{2}^{n}}=4 $