So optical isomers are produced in this case when the asymmetric carbon acts as a chiral centre, so in the redduction of theses ketones, the C=0 bond will be replaced with and OH group and a hydrogen atom will attach itself to the carbon atom that has the OH group. However when this happens on C we do not get an asymmetric carbon atom since there are two of the same groups attached, there are two ethyl groups and a hydroxy group and a hydrogen atom, which means that C will not experience optical isomerism so wont exist in a racemic mixture. Whereas B on the other hand when reeduced we do get 4 diffferent groups, we get a hydroxy group (OH), the hydrogen atom, a methyl group and a propyl group, this means that B will experience optical isomerism upon reduction due to their being an asymmetric carbon atom. Therefore since we can assume that B has been synthesised in a lab it will exist in a racemic mixture, where each enantiomer exists in equal quantities.
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