True / False

State whether the following statement is True or False Diastereomers have different physical properties and similar but not identical chemical properties.

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Correct Answer
BFALSE

Solution

$$True$$
Diastereomers have different physical properties (such as melting and boiling points) and similar but not identical chemical properties (such as rates of reaction, selectivity and specificity etc).

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