Why tartaric acid is optically active but succinic acid is not?
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Tartaric acid is optically active but succinic acid is not.
- Tartaric acid has a chiral center, which means that it has four different substituents attached to a carbon atom, making it asymmetric.
- As a result, tartaric acid can exist in two mirror-image forms known as enantiomers, which rotate plane-polarized light in opposite directions. Therefore, tartaric acid is optically active.
- Succinic acid does not have a chiral center, as both of its carboxylic acid functional groups are attached to the same carbon atom.
- As a result, succinic acid is not asymmetric and cannot exist in two enantiomeric forms. Therefore, it does not rotate plane-polarized light and is not optically active.
Hence,
Tartaric acid is optically active but succinic acid is not.
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