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Identify the chiral carbon in amphetamine (benzedrine)

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Chiral Carbon is a carbon atom that is attached to 4 different types of atoms or group of atoms

In Amphetamine, there is only 1 carbon that have 4 different types of atoms, so there is only 1 Chiral Carbon in it which have 2 optical isomers :

PhCH2CH(NH2)CH3
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