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1) s- limonene has a specific optical rotation of 94 degree.the commercially supplied mixture of the latter has a 95% enentiometric excess (ee)

1a) what is a chiral centre in organic

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Chiral Center, chiral atom, chirality center, or center of chirality is a tetrahedral atom in a molecule bearing four different ligands, with lone pairs, if any, treated as ligands. ... If a chiral center is a carbon atom, it can also be called an asymmetric carbon atom.