Organic Chemistry – Some Basic Principles Part 1

NOTE : The organic compounds which have chiral carbon atom (a carbon atom attached to four different group or atoms) and do not have plane of symmetry rotate plane polarized light.
HO−

‌‌‌‌‌CHO |

C*

| ‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌CH2‌OH

−H
(* is asymmetric carbon)