can anyone tell me briefly what is optical isomerism and what is optically active and inactive?
Tarun Vasagiri , 11 Years ago
Grade 12
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Vikash Kumar
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Optical isomerism is a form of stereoisomerism. Optical isomers are molecules that differ in connectivity by the placement of substituents around one or more atoms in a molecule. they rotated a beam of plane-polarized light when the light is passed through it. the isomers cannot be converted into one another, even by a rotation around a single bond.
the compound which rotates the plane polarised light is called optically active otherwise optically inactive. the best way to find it is that if the molecule has a plane of symmetry it is optically inactive.
for details look into isomerism from any organic book
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A optically active compound is a compound which have either a chiral centre or they do poses POS and COS
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