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KCET · Chemistry · General Organic Chemistry

A pair of compounds having the same boiling points are

  1. A cis but-2-ene and trans but-2-ene
  2. B \(n\)-hexane and neo-hexane
  3. C benzene and naphthalene
  4. D \((+)\) butan-2-ol and (-) butan-2-ol
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(D) \((+)\) butan-2-ol and (-) butan-2-ol

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\(d\)-and \(l\)-isomers (enantiomers) have identical
chemical and physical properties. They are indistinguishable from each other except for the direction of rotation of the plane polarised light. Thus ( + ) butan-2-ol and (-) butan-2-ol will have same boiling points.