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Are Diastereomers Optical Isomers? Understanding the Relationship Diastereomers are not always optical isomers; they may or may not exhibit optical activity, and if they do, their direction of rotating plane-polarized...

Why is this not a gauche interaction? This is not a gauche interaction because the groups involved either include hydrogen atoms, which have minimal torsional strain, or the larger substituents...