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Meso compounds do not show optica activi...

Meso compounds do not show optica activity because :

A

they do not contain chiral carbon atoms

B

they have non-superimposable mirror images

C

they contain plane of symmetry

D

they do not contain plane of symmetry

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Meso compounds posses a plane of symmetry and is consequently optically inactive.
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