Destroyer Ochem #23

[silveryhair]

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Can anyone explain why this compound is chiral? I thought it had to have 4 different substituents to be chiral?

 

[Charmm]

Carbon number two is attached to 4 Different groups
A methyl, an ethyl, a chloromethyl, and a hydrogen that is not shown

 

[RunDMD2b]

yes it's chiral. Look at it like this:
CH3



C



CH2Cl H CH2CH3