Chemistry 9701 · AS & A Level · Chemical bonding

Chemical bonding — practice question

The compound aspartame is used extensively as a sweetener in ‘diet’ soft drinks. Aspartame is chiral. (There are no chiral carbon atoms in $\text{C}_6\text{H}_5$.) How many chiral carbon atoms are there in one molecule of aspartame?

  • A1
  • B2
  • C3
  • D4

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