Having completed this tutorial you should be able to :
describe the changes in energy as the conformations of molecules such as alkanes change through staggered, eclipsed, gauche or anti forms by rotation about a C-C bond.
recognize and indicate the presence of chiral centres in a range of organic molecules.
extend the use of nomenclature of organic molecules presented so far in the course to now include the ranking of groups around a chiral centre and the assignment of R- or S- configurations to the structure.
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