The product of this reaction, 1,2-dibromo-1,2-diphenylethane, has two stereogenic centers, which normally leads one to predict four (2n = 22 in this case) possible stereoisomers (i.e., four optical isomers). However, there are only three possible isomers in the case of 1,2-dibromo-1,2-diphenylethane since one, the so-called meso isomer, is C C Br+Web