Just for fun, you might like to try and work out just how many diastereoisomers inositol has and how many of them are meso compounds.
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Just for fun, you might like to try and work out just how many diastereoisomers inositol has and how many of them are meso compounds. inositol

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Ans. (A) Total stereoisomers = 9, meso = 7.

Sol. Inositol is cyclohexane-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexol: six stereocentres with identical substituents on a symmetric ring. Enumerating the 2⁶ = 64 up/down patterns modulo the ring's rotations and reflections gives 9 distinct stereoisomers: 7 are meso (achiral, with an internal plane or centre of symmetry) and the remaining 2 form one enantiomeric pair.

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