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ChemistrySTEREO ISOMERISMCALCULATION OF TOTAL STEREOISOMERSMedium2 minQB
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The number of stereoisomers of the given compound which can exist are:

structure

Options:

Answer:
C
Solution:

Ans. (C) 2.

Sol. The compound is hexahelicene: the six angularly fused benzene rings cannot lie in one plane and coil into a helix. The right-handed (P) and left-handed (M) helices are non-superimposable mirror images : 2 stereoisomers.

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