Chemistry: A Molecular Approach (3rd Edition)

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Chapter 20 - Sections 20.1-20.14 - Exercises - Conceptual Problems - Page 999: 122c

Answer

This is not a chiral compound.

Work Step by Step

A chiral compound should have four different groups bonded to an asymmetric carbon atom. Neither of the carbon atoms has four different groups/atoms bonded to it. First carbon has three same atoms ($H$), second carbon has two same atoms ($H$). Hence, it is not chiral.
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