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Give examples of a chiral conformation and an achiral conformation of n-butane.

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Gauche-staggered conformation of n-butane is chiral because it cannot be superimposed on its mirror image.
However , the fully eclipsed conformation of n-butane is achiral as it can be superimposed on its image.
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