How many stereoisomers do meso compounds have?

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anor277
Jul 18, 2016

Well, none.

Explanation:

A #"meso"# compound is a symmetric #RS# compound. Even though there are 2 chiral centres, reflection maps the chiral centres onto each other, and the mirror image is thus identical to the original species.

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