Homework #12
Name: ________________________________________ Awarded points: _____of 1
Date: October 28. Due: November 1
Note: this assignment is particularly difficult and it may take up to 30 min to do it. Don’t despair, but
consider this a possibility to re-learn the things you might have forgotten (drawing Newman
projection…). Please, staple both pages together.
1. Consider the following carboxylic acid. A) Find all chiral (stereogenic) centers and assign
stereodescriptors for each chiral center(R/S)
HOOC
OH
Cl
highlighted bond
B) Draw its sawhorse projection of this molecule ?
C) Draw its Newman projection (use the highlighted bond as the axis of the projection):
D) Draw the Fischer projection of this molecule ?
D) Draw the Fischer projection of the opposite enantiomer ?
