Which of the following molecules is expected to rotate the plane of plane polarized light?

A molecule rotates the plane of plane polarized light if it is optically active, which requires it to be chiral (no plane of symmetry or center of symmetry).In Glyceraldehyde (${\text{HO-CH}}_2{\text{-C}}^{\ast }\text{H(OH)-CHO}$), the central carbon is attached to four different groups (${\text{-H, -OH, -CHO, -CH}}_2\text{OH}$), making it a chiral center. Thus, it is optically active.Molecules with a plane of symmetry (like the ones in options B, C, and D) are achiral and therefore optically inactive (meso compounds).