Chirality center on cholesterol
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Chirality center on cholesterol
Question: Where are the chiral centers on cholesterol? The solutions manual says there is a chiral center at the carbon attached to OH. Doesn't that only have 3 different substituents though?
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Re: Chirality center on cholesterol
Answer: The H is not shown but it is there. The H in most structures are not shown, but they should be assumed to be
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