Optical rotation, also known as polarization rotation or circular birefringence, is the rotation of the orientation of the plane of polarization about...

to be “optically active”. Specific rotation is an intensive property, distinguishing it from the more general phenomenon of optical rotation. As such...

hydrolytic saccharification of the disaccharide sucrose. This mixture's optical rotation is opposite to that of the original sugar, which is why it is called...

instrument used to measure optical rotation: the angle of rotation caused by passing linearly polarized light through an optically active substance. Some...

Faraday effect or Faraday rotation, sometimes referred to as the magneto-optic Faraday effect (MOFE), is a physical magneto-optical phenomenon. The Faraday...

In stereochemistry, mutarotation is the change in optical rotation of a chiral material in a solution due to a change in proportion of the two constituent...

devices such as optical isolators (through which light passes in one direction but not the other). Two gyrotropic materials with reversed rotation directions...

enantiomer of a known configuration, as indicated by the opposite sign of optical rotation, it would indicate that the absolute configuration is inverted. In...

various optical properties of a material, including linear birefringence, circular birefringence (also known as optical rotation or optical rotary dispersion)...

have a net optical rotation. It is possible to determine the specific rotation of the mixture and, with knowledge of the specific rotation of the pure...

written using the obsolete equivalents d- and l-) is based on its optical rotation properties; and the D/L system is based on the molecule's relationship...

isomer does the opposite. The rotation of light is measured using a polarimeter and is expressed as the optical rotation. Enantiomers can be separated...

manifestations of this effect appear in optical wave plates/retarders (linear modes) and in Faraday rotation/optical rotation (circular modes). If the path length...

for an optical isolator, the values are chosen to give a rotation of 45°. It has been shown that a crucial requirement for any kind of optical isolator...

enantiomers are called racemic drugs and these are obviously devoid of optical rotation. The most commonly encountered stereogenic unit, that confers chirality...

Optical rotatory dispersion is the variation of the specific rotation of a medium with respect to the wavelength of light. Usually described Drude's empirical...

hydroxyl on the left. The other refers to Optical rotation, when looking at the source of light, the rotation of the plane of polarization may be either...

center and therefore exists as two different enantiomers with opposite optical rotation: In the D/L nomenclature, either D from Latin Dexter meaning "right"...

region where the light is absorbed, the absolute magnitude of the optical rotation at first varies rapidly with wavelength, crosses zero at absorption...

Rayleigh scattering optical activity Linear dichroism Magnetic circular dichroism Optical activity Optical isomerism Optical rotation Optical rotatory dispersion...

anatomy Optical rotation, rotation acting on polarized light Rotation around a fixed axis Rotational spectroscopy, a spectroscopy technique Tree rotation, a...

other higher plants exhibits a positive optical rotation of +42.73°. The other enantiomer (optical rotation −42.73°) is found in small amounts in certain...

trans-isomers are called menthone. Because the (2S,5R) isomer has negative optical rotation, it is called l-menthone or (−)-menthone. It is the enantiomeric partner...

(D-penicillamine, having (–) optical rotation) is antiarthritic. (R)-penicillamine (L-penicillamine, having (+) optical rotation) is toxic because it inhibits...

An optical instrument is a device that processes light waves (or photons), either to enhance an image for viewing or to analyze and determine their characteristic...

indices nα, nβ and nγ. Thus there is no axis around which a rotation leaves the optical properties invariant (as there is with uniaxial crystals whose...

microscope or telescopic sight. Lens elements often have rotational symmetry about the axis. The optical axis defines the path along which light propagates...

enantiomeric purity of l-DOPA may be analyzed by determination of the optical rotation or by chiral thin-layer chromatography. l-DOPA crosses the protective...

in optical rotation on nitro-d-camphor with time and invented the term mutarotational to describe this phenomenon. He studied changes in optical rotation...

in crucial experiments involving polarization, birefringence, and optical rotation, all of which contributed to the eventual acceptance of his transverse-wave...