Q6 · CSIR NET Chemistry, June 2019
Paper: CSIR NET June 2019 · Subject: Organic Chemistry · Chapter: General Organic Chemistry · Topic: Stereochemistry R S E Z · Marks: 2 · Difficulty: Medium
The relationship between A and B is
A
B
A
B(a)Homomers (identical)
(b)Enantiomers
(c)Diastereomers
(d)Conformers
Answer
Answer: C ✓ checked by 4AB · confidence medium
Explanation
A and B have the same bicyclic skeleton and ring-fusion configuration but the methyl points to opposite faces (exo vs endo). They are stereoisomers that are not mirror images: diastereomers (c).
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