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ChemistryOrganic Chemistry - Some Basic Principles and TechniquesJEE Main

The number of possible enantiomeric pairs that can be produced during monochlorination of 2-methylbutane is

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2-Methylbutane, (CH₃)₂CH–CH₂–CH₃, has four distinct types of substitutable hydrogen, but only two give a chiral product: substitution at either (equivalent) terminal methyl on C2 gives 1-chloro-2-methylbutane (new stereocentre at C2), and

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