Draw the following structure, indicating the stereochemistry. 2-isopropyl-1-methylcyclopropanol

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Stereochemistry of Substituted Cycloalkanes:

Cyclic compounds with more than one substituent can have cis- and trans- stereoisomers. When a carbon atom is attached to four different components, the carbon atom is chiral and can have either an R configuration or an S configuration. For cycloalkanes with two or more different substituents, if all the substituted carbon centers are chiral, we can no longer use only cis- and trans- to denote the stereochemistry because both cis- and trans- isomers can have a set of two different R-S configurations, leading to different molecules. As a result, we name such molecules by putting the R-S configuration for each stereocenter at the beginning of their names. Similarly, when given a name without any stereochemistry indicated, we should keep in mind that the configuration of each stereocenter in the molecule can potentially be either R or S.

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