Use your answers to the preceding problem to predict the stereochemical outcome of the addition of bromine

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Use your answers to the preceding problem to predict the stereochemical outcome of the addition of bromine to maleic acid and to fumaric acid.
(a) Which dicarboxylic acid would add bromine to yield a meso compound?
(b) Which would yield a racemic form?
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Organic Chemistry

ISBN: 978-1118133576

11th edition

Authors: Graham Solomons, Craig Fryhle, Scott Snyder

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