Given below are two statements :

Statement-I : Essential requirement for optical activity is chirality.

Statement-II : Compounds must have chiral carbon for chirality. In the light of the above statements, Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

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Both Statement I and Statement II are true

Both Statement I and Statement II are wrong

Statement I is incorrect, Statement II is correct

Statement I is correct, Statement II is incorrect

answer is C.

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Chiral molecule are optically active, chiral centre is not an essential conduction for chirality. Eg. Molecule with chiral axis i.e. $C_{2}$ -axis symmetry.

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