Question

conditions for a compound to show optical isomerism

Answer 1

it must have 1 or greater than 1 chiral carbon. Chiral carbon means that the carbon has four different groups with it. Different groups can rotate light differently. For this, a resultant direction of rotating the light is occurred. So the compound rotates light. If there are two same groups around any carbon atom then it is not a chiral carbon and does not show optical isomerism. Lactic acid, glucose etc. are the compounds which have 1 or more than 1 chiral carbon and show optical isomerism.


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