What is optical activity in organic chemistry? Chirality A compound is said to be chiral if it contains a chiral carbon, that is, a carbon having four different substituent. However, not all compounds with chiral carbons are chiral overall, some are considered meso compounds. Such compounds have...
Optical activity is typically first introduced to a prospective chemist in her sophomore year organic chemistry course. Here, she is taught that optical activity is a consequence of chirality, for example, tartaric acid has a specific rotation of +12掳 at the sodium line. However, this leaves ...
This post was co-authored with Matt Pierce ofOrganic Chemistry Solutions. Ask Matt about scheduling an online tutoring sessionhere. 1. Louis Pasteur And The Discovery Of “Enantiomers” In our last post on optical rotation (See post:Optical Rotation, Optical Activity, and Specific Rotation)we saw...
ChemInform Abstract: Optical Activity and Stereochemistry of Linear Oligopyrroles and Bile Pigmentsorganic chemistryreviewpyrrole derivativeslakespigmentsstereochemistry (generaloptical resolution)ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about ...
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This small addition was found to significantly enhance both catalyst activity and catalyst lifetime (Futaba et al., 2005; Hasegawa and Noda, 2011), resulting in very high yields of substrate-supported SWNTs (Fig. 2.5). Various substrates have been used with this method, including Si wafers,...
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Foodborne diseases are a significant cause of morbidity (600 million cases) and mortality (420,000 deaths) worldwide every year and are mainly associated with pathogens. Besides the direct effects on human health, they have relevant concerns related to financial, logistics, and infrastructure for th...
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Any optically active compound will exhibit an optical rotatory dispersion (ORD) curve, which gives the optical activity (Φ) in the function of wavelength (λ in nm). If the compound under investigation has no chromophores that absorb in the wavelength range being used, the ORD curve is plai...