A meso compound is a type of stereoisomer that has multiple stereocenters but is achiral due to an internal plane of symmetry. This means that even though it has chiral centers, the overall molecule is not optically active because one half is a mirror image of the other. Meso compounds typically have symmetrical structures, and this symmetry leads to their achirality.

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