Answer to Question #225620 in Organic Chemistry for MUNENE JARDINI .H

Question #225620

Mevacor is used clinically to lower serum cholesterol levels. (i) How many chiral centers and how many stereoisomers does Mevacor have?  


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2021-08-13T02:08:52-0400

8 asymmetric centers



The maximum number of stereoisomers that a molecule can have is 2n , where n is the number of chiral centres. A molecule with three chiral centres will have 23=8 stereoisomers.


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