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Ananya Shree

Class 12th
Chemistry
2 years ago

Explain why The quaternary ammonium salts having four different alkyl groups are optically active.

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

There is no rapid inversion in quaternary ammonium compounds because nitrogen atoms do not have a lone pair of electrons. The optical activity of the nitrogen atom is due to its sigma bonding to four alkyl groups.

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