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The property of a compound being able to rotate the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light is called the optical activity, and the compound with such activity is labelled as optical active. The stereoisomer that is optical active is also called as optical isomer .
Optical activity is measured by a polarimeter, and is dependent on several factors: concentration of the sample, temperature, length of the sample tube or cell, and wavelength of the light passing through the sample.
Compounds that rotate the plane of polarized light are termed optically active. Each enantiomer of a stereoisomeric pair is optically active and has an equal but opposite-in-sign specific rotation. Specific rotations are useful in that they are experimentally determined constants that characterize and identify pure enantiomers.
A solution of optically active organic molecules is placed in a sample tube, plane-polarized light is passed through the tube, and rotation of the polarization plane occurs. The light then goes through a second polarizer called the analyzer.
The property of a compound being able to rotate the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light is called optical activity, and a compound with such activity is labeled as optical active. A stereoisomer that is optical active is also called an optical isomer.
Optical activity, the ability of a substance to rotate the plane of polarization of a beam of light that is passed through it. (In plane-polarized light, the vibrations of the electric field are confined to a single plane.)
It is important to know that optically active compounds are chiral and optically inactive compounds are achiral. The instrument that is used to put all these parts together and allow for measuring the extent and the direction to which the plane rotates is called a polarimeter.
A compound’s capacity to rotate the plane of polarized light is known as optical activity. This characteristic results from the interaction of polarized light’s electromagnetic radiation with the asymmetric electric fields produced by chiral molecules’ electrons.
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Compounds that rotate the plane of polarized light are termed optically active. Each enantiomer of a stereoisomeric pair is optically active and has an equal but opposite-in-sign specific rotation. Specific rotations are useful in that they are experimentally determined constants that characterize and identify pure enantiomers.