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Offline mrlucky0

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Optical Rotation Confusion
« on: August 05, 2009, 11:27:48 PM »
Say you have a pure isomer of glucose that rotates plane polarized light X degrees, does this mean it's enantiomer will light -X degrees? What if you flip just one of the -OH (form a diastereomer), in this case, is it not possible to determine the degree of rotation?

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Re: Optical Rotation Confusion
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 11:33:08 PM »
yes, to the best of my knowledge, the enantiomer will give you the same degree of rotation with the opposite sign.  I am also fairly confident that the diastereomer is unpredictable from the rotation of a particular enantiomer.

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