Answer:
I believe it is a chiral molecule.
Explanation:
Chiral molecules have a non-superimposable mirror image. You can identify the chiral center of 3-bromo-2,2-dimethylhexane by drawing the molecule out:
- Chiral center is when the central carbon atom is attached to 4 different atoms or groups of atoms.
- The highlighted carbon in the image is a chiral center (3rd carbon) attached to 4 different atoms and groups of atoms (H, Br, C(CH3)3, and CH2CCH2CH3)
- If you draw out the 2 mirror images of the molecule of the chiral carbon center, you can see that it lacks of symmetry.
=> 3-bromo-2,2-dimethylhexane is chiral
