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Offline sparkle123

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how to number carbons in cyclic molecule
« on: February 27, 2011, 08:33:09 PM »

This has absolute configuration 3R, 4S. I don't get how you number the carbons. If I were to do it, i'd start number 1 on the most bottom carbon and then work my way up, but that's not right.

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