Abstract
It was a historical breakthrough when van’t Hoff [1] and LeBel [2] were able to explain the existence of enantiomers in carbon compounds by assuming the tetrahedral arrangement of four ligands about the carbon atom. Although it took sometime for the theory to be accepted by the chemical world, it became the general concept that the carbon atoms take on a tetrahedral spatial arrangement and the organic molecules should be treated as three dimensional objects. The reason for this is the easy understanding of the optical activity of isomeric molecules which differ only in the direction of optical rotation but possess identical properties in other chemical and physical aspects.
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Ōki, M. (1993). Introduction. In: The Chemistry of Rotational Isomers. Reactivity and Structure Concepts in Organic Chemistry, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51024-3_1
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