Organic Chemistry
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781305080485
Author: John E. McMurry
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 5.SE, Problem 68AP
Allenes are compounds with adjacent carbon-carbon double bonds. Many allenes are chiral, even though they don’t contain chirality centers. Mycomycin, for example, a naturally occurring antibiotic isolated from the bacterium Nocardia acidophilus, is chiral and has [α]D = -130. Explain why mycomycin is chiral.
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