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The history of optical isomerism goes back to the year 1815, when the phenomenon was discovered by the French physicist Jean-Baptist Biot [1]. Optical activity was defined as the ability of a substance to rotate the plane of polarisation of light. Some years later, his student, Louis Pasteur [2] proposed that this optical activity of certain organic compounds was a consequence of their molecular asymmetry, that produces non-super-imposable mirror-image structures. A molecule which is not superimposable on its mirror image is said to be chiral. Conversely, a molecule which is superimposable on its mirror image is described as achiral.
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Adger, B.M. (1995). Industrial synthesis of optically active compounds. In: Clark, J.H. (eds) Chemistry of Waste Minimization. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0623-8_7
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