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PREVIOUS work has shown that a relationship exists between the rotatory power of an optically active solution and the electric moment of the solvent. It has been found that, in general, the rotation varies in the opposite sense to the electric moment of the solvent throughout a series of solvents derived from the same parent hydrocarbon. An explanation of this observation has been advanced in terms of dipolar association between solvent and optically active solute, and numerous results have been brought forward in support of this hypothesis.
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KUNZ, J., MCLEAN, A. Optical Rotatory Power of Solutions in an Electric Field. Nature 136, 795–796 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136795a0
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