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Is specific rotation defined for mixtures of enantiomers or meso compounds?
I recently had to do an experiment where we had to make a racemic mixture of D and L complexes and then resolve the enantiomers, and measure the optical rotation of the racemic mixture, and the ...
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Discovery of optical activity of enantiomers - where did the idea of using polarized light came from?
According to Wikipedia, optical activity was first observed in 1811 in quartz. Louis Pasteur's contribution is also mentioned there and in other sources as a major advancement in establishing optical ...
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