The following molecule is fluorometholone, a steroidal anti-inflammatory agent. How many stereogenic centers does it contain?

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Solution

A chiral centre in an organic compound is an atom directly connected to four different substituents.

The $C$ is chiral carbon if it has four different substituents.

For the given molecule, we have $8$ chiral centres as shown by asterisk below:

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