ChiralityTutorialAnswer04

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For a carbon to be a stereogenic centre, it needs to have four different groups attached to it.

Notes:

• This only applies to sp³ carbon atoms. sp² and sp carbon atoms are flat (all attached groups lie in one plane), and therefore they cannot be chiral.
• If any two groups attached to the sp³ carbon are the same, the carbon will not be chiral.

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