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D-Erythrose and D-threose are separately reduced with $N a B H_{4}$ to give the products (A) and (B), respectively.
Statement: (B) will be optically inactive.

A

True

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B

False

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Solution

The correct option is B False
From the diagram, we can see that (B) will be optically active.
Hence, the given statment is $F a l s e$

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