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THIS is a collection of data obtained on optical rotatory power between 1931 and 1934, and is an advance paper from vol. 11 of the well-known “Tables annuelles”. The matter is grouped in seven sections: specific rotatory powers; influence of temperature, concentration and solvent; rotatory dispersion; resolution of racemic compounds; muta-rotation; effect of additions; and general theories. Of these the largest section is that, on rotatory dispersion, which occupies more than half the volume. Among the interesting results recorded in this section one may note in passing the work of Lowry and Gore on the vapour of camphor and camphor -quinone, and that of Levene on a number of aliphatic compounds in which the rotatory dispersion is followed through an absorption band. Section 4 includes a number of resolutions of theoretical interest such as Mann's purely inorganic compound Na[Rh(SO2N2H2)2 (H2O)2], and on the organic side Pope and Whit worth's resolution of spiro-5:5-dihydantoin and Backer and Schurink's work on spiro-heptane dicarboxylic acid.
Tables annuelles de constantes et données numériques de chimie, physique, biologie et technologie
(Annual Tables of Constants and Numerical Data; Chemical, Physical, Biological and Technological). Données numériques sur le pouvoir rotatoire (Numerical Data on Rotatory Power). Par Prof. E. Darmois. Années 1931 à 1934. Pp. 68. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars; New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1936.)
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Tables annuelles de constantes et données numériques de chimie, physique, biologie et technologie. Nature 139, 9 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139009b0
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