BIOLOGY
AMINO ACIDS
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Question
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Number of chiral centers in isoleucine (Ile) is?
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1
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2
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3
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0
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -These two amino acids, isoleucine and threonine, have in common the fact that they have two chiral centers.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the case of isoleucine and threonine, both chiral centers must be inverted to generate the mirror image amino acids d-isoleucine and d-threonine.
Detailed explanation-3: -Threonine has two chiral centers and therefore four possible stereoisomers.
Detailed explanation-4: -We can observe that there are a total of two chiral centres in isoleucine at the second and third carbon atoms. Since, there are two chiral centres, we will use our formula to find out the number of optical isomers.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ans:Thr and Ile have two chiral centers.
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