Lecture 19: Chirality Conventions

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Nathan S. Winter, St. Cloud State UniversityFollow

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Presentation

Publication Date

1-4-2016

Abstract

This biochemistry lecture reviews the three common chirality conventions used in the discipline: the plus-minus convention for describing the rotation of plane polarized light, Fischer's D-L convention, and the R S convention for describing the three dimensional geometry.

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Winter, Nathan S., "Lecture 19: Chirality Conventions" (2016). Lectures in Chemistry. 20.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/chem_lect/20

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