Polarimetry and stereochemistry: the optical rotation of Vitamin C as a function of pH

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Johan A. Linthorst
Johanna van der Wal-Veuger

Abstract

A novel experiment was prepared to help chemistry educators to improve the stereochemistry curriculumof secondary school students and undergraduate students. Based on polarimetry and VitaminC, chemistry educators are now provided with an experiment that takes into account the delocalizationof electrons, and the interactions with plane-polarized light in atomic bonds

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Johan A. Linthorst, University. Janskerkhof

Department of Chemistry, CSG Dingstede. Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities,Utrecht University. Janskerkhof

Johanna van der Wal-Veuger, University. Janskerkhof

Department of History, Maastricht University