Question

The necessary and sufficient condition for a compound to be optically active is that
A. it must contain asymmetric carbon atoms
B. its molecule must be nonidentical with its mirroe image
C. its must be symmetric
D. its molecule must be identical with its mirror image

Answer 1

Correct Answer - B
Optical activity is not the property of a single molecule but rather of a collection of moolecules in which one serves as the nonsuperposable mirror image of the other.