Which of the following compounds are meso compounds?

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Which of the following compounds are meso compounds?

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The first structure is meso compound. If we take mirror image of the given structure then it is super imposable to each other.

One side is overlapping with another side after mirror image. Super imposable is necessary condition for meso compound.

Second structure is also meso compound. Reason is same as said above.


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