JEE Main Chemistry question

Chemistry Organic Chemistry - Some Basic Principles and Techniques JEE Main

Compounds whose molecules are superimposable on their mirror images, even though they contain asymmetric carbon atoms or chiral centres, are known as

(A)Enantiomers
(B)Racemers
(C)Meso compoundsCorrect
(D)Conformers

Answer: (C)

Solution

A meso compound has stereocentres but also an internal plane/point of symmetry,

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