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ChemistrySTEREO ISOMERISMCALCULATION OF TOTAL STEREOISOMERSMedium2 minQB
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The number of stereoisomers of Penta-2,3-diene (consider only cumulated dienes) which can exist are:

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A
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Ans. (A) 2.

Sol. Penta-2,3-diene (CH3CH=C=CHCH3) is axially chiral: each terminal sp2 carbon bears two different groups (H and CH3). The molecule exists as one enantiomeric pair (Ra and Sa) : 2 stereoisomers.

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