You are trying to determine the optical purity (% enantiomeric excess) of a compound tha you have just synthesized. You measure the rotation of plane-polarized light of a 0.5 g/ml solution and find the rotation to be +16.2 degrees (clockwise). Given the pure (-) isomer has a specific rotation of -45 degrees, what is the optical purity of the compound? Show you work.
You are trying to determine the optical purity (% enantiomeric excess) of a compound tha you have just synthesized. You measure the rotation of plane-polarized light of a 0.5 g/ml solution and find the rotation to be +16.2 degrees (clockwise). Given the pure (-) isomer has a specific rotation of -45 degrees, what is the optical purity of the compound? Show you work.
Chapter92: Polarimetry
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