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THE January issue of the Chemical Society's Journal contains an important paper by Dr. R. H. Pickard and Mr. J. Kenyon on the “Dependence of Rotatory Power on Chemical Constitution,” Hitherto much of the work that has been done in order to find out the influence on optical rotatory power of temperature, solvent, concentration, and chemical constitution has been based upon the observations of complex compounds, such as nicotine and derivatives of various complex acids and bases. These substances have the advantage that they can be purchased as natural products in optically active forms, but the complexity of their structure has rendered it almost impossible to draw any general conclusions from the vast array of facts that have now been accumulated. In the research now described the authors have endeavoured to reduce the I problem to its simplest possible form by studying the properties of the series of secondary alcohols, RHOH.R2, of which the simplest member is secondary butyl alcohol, CH,.CHOH.CH2.CH,.
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Optically Active Alcohols . Nature 86, 325–326 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086325b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/086325b0