Treatment of (S)-( )-5-methyl-2-cyclohexenone with lithium dimethylcuprate gives, after protonolysis, a good yield of a mixture containing mostly a dextrorotatory ketone A and a trace of an optically inactive isomer B. Treatment of A with zinc amalgam and HCl affords an optically active, dextrorotatory hydrocarbon C. Identify compounds A, B, and C, including stereochemical configurations. Be sure to explicitly draw H and both wedge/dash bonds at any configuration center.

intermolecular forces are the forces between molecules or particles.

there are two kinds of van der waals forces: weak london dispersion forces and stronger dipole-dipole forces.

in molecule of water there are dipole-dipole forces between negatively charged oxygen from one molecule of water and positively charger hydrogen of another molecule of water.

hydrogen bond is an electrostatic attraction between two polar groups that occurs when a hydrogen atom (h), covalently bound to a highly electronegative atom such as flourine (f), oxygen (o) and nitrogen (n) atoms.