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Offline w451208

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Symmetry
« on: November 09, 2010, 02:30:49 PM »


Why wouldn't the answer just be C?
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Re: Symmetry
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2010, 03:08:58 PM »
Picture a line cutting across II, vertical to the plane of the ring, through the 4 atoms (cutting them essentially in "half")
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Re: Symmetry
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2010, 03:21:23 PM »
Could you explain it a little better. I have drawn lines all over this molecule and cant find any symmetry as each side has two different substitutions.
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Re: Symmetry
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2010, 04:15:37 PM »
Go THROUGH substitutions, so that they lie on the plane.
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Re: Symmetry
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2010, 11:28:59 PM »
you know you've had too much to drink when you cant see that mirror plane in II without 5 minutes of staring
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Re: Symmetry
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2010, 11:50:00 PM »
Just cut it diagonally
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Re: Symmetry
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2010, 11:51:33 PM »
yes i see it. thanks guys
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