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WE have succeeded in verifying the prediction made by van't Hoff in 1875, but hitherto unverified, that unsymmetrically substituted allenes, would be found to exhibit enantiomorphism.
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MAITLAND, P., MILLS, W. Experimental Demonstration of the Allene Asymmetry. Nature 135, 994 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135994a0
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