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If there is no rotation of plane polariz...

If there is no rotation of plane polarized light by a compound in a specific solvent, through to be chiral, it may mean that:

A

there is no compound in the solvent

B

the compound may be a racemic mixture

C

the compound is certainly a chiral

D

the copound is certainly meso

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D

A meso compound consists of molecule containing chiral carbon atoms but the compound is optically inactive as the molecule is superposable on its mirror image.
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