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I'm stuck on this question - can anyone help?
The question is:
Pent-1-ene undergoes an electrophilic addition reaction with hydrogen chloride to produce a mixture of three isomeric chloropentanes. One is a structural isomer of the other two. Draw structures to represent the three isomers.
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The one structural isomer. is 1-chloropentane. The other two will both be 2-chloropentane, but probably enantiomers of each other.

I haven't learnt much about optical isomerism, so hopefully that rings a bell for you.

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