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ChemistryOrganic Chemistry - Some Basic Principles and TechniquesJEE Main

An enantiomerically pure acid is treated with a racemic mixture of an alcohol having one chiral carbon. The ester formed will be

Answer: (A)

Solution

With the acid's configuration fixed, reacting it with both enantiomers of the alcohol gives two diastereomeric esters (not enantiomers), which

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