Physical chemistry 3-pinene

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Capouet, M., Peeters, J., Noziere, B. and Muller, J.F. (2004) Alpha-pinene oxidation by OH simulations of laboratory experiments. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 4, 2285-311. 

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In reading about the history of science, we often find that famous scientists in previous eras made important contributions in many different fields. Such is the case for the French scientist Jean Baptiste Biot (Biographic Photo 2.1), whose name is associated with major discoveries in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and chemistry. Biot discovered in 1815 that the phenomenon of rotation of the plane of polarized light (a topic introduced and described very briefly in Chapter 1), which was known for quartz crystals, could also be observed in naturally occurring liquids such as oils of lemon and turpentine [1]. We now know that these two substances are not pure compounds, but complex mixtures. The main constituent in lemon oil is (-h )-limonene, sometimes referred to as d-limonene (a nomenclature that we will discuss shortly), and the main component in "French" turpentine is (-I- )-a-pinene. It is interesting to note that the molecule present in turpentine in North America is (—)-a-pinene. The structures of these compounds are given in Figure 2.1. Note that the molecule limonene has one asymmetric... 

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