meso-tartaric acid is optically active or inactive
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meso-tartaric acid is optically active or inactive
Solution
Meso-tartaric acid is optically inactive. This is because it has a plane of symmetry or a center of symmetry, making it a meso compound. Meso compounds are achiral (not chiral) and do not rotate plane-polarized light. Therefore, despite having multiple chiral centers, meso-tartaric acid is optically inactive.
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