Optical isomery

Garay AS (1968) Origin and role of optical isomery in life. Nature 219 338-340... 

S. Dongorozi. Rev. chim. (Bucharest) 6, 30-2 (1955). Optical isomery, aqueous... 

Predict whether [Ir(en),] should exhibit optical isomeri.sm. If so, prove by diagrams that the two optical isomers are not simple rotational aspects of the same compound. 

The bulk of the work has been carried out using complexes of the type [M(bidentate)2X2] where bidentate is a bidentate ligand and X is monodentate. Anotha important area deals with the loss of optical activity of resolved octahedral complices. These reactions can be very fast or very slow and have long scinated inorganic chemists. In a number of cases the loss of optical activity (racemisation) is rdated to cis treats isomerisation. For example, in the [M(bidentate)2X2] complexes, the enantiomaic cis-isomer may lose its optical activity by isomeri g to the optical inactive ti-ans-isomer. Early and subsequent work on cis treats isomerisation and racemisation of octahedral metal complexes has been summarised and detailed in various books and reviews [ 1-6]. 

Spiegelbild-lsomerie/ optische Isomerie optical isomerism... 

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