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