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Q. Which of the following structures represents a chiral compound?

AMUAMU 2018Haloalkanes and Haloarenes

Solution:

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A chiral compound is the one that contains an asymmetric carbon atom, i.e. a carbon atom that has all the four substituent different. Here, $C_{3}$ contains all the different substituent.
Hence, it is a chiral compound