Optical rotation, also known as polarization rotation or circular birefringence, is the rotation of the orientation of the plane of polarization about...

to be “optically active”. Specific rotation is an intensive property, distinguishing it from the more general phenomenon of optical rotation. As such...

hydrolytic saccharification of the disaccharide sucrose. This mixture's optical rotation is opposite to that of the original sugar, which is why it is called...

devices such as optical isolators (through which light passes in one direction but not the other). Two gyrotropic materials with reversed rotation directions...

instrument used to measure optical rotation: the angle of rotation caused by passing linearly polarized light through an optically active substance. Some...

In stereochemistry, mutarotation is the change in optical rotation of a chiral material in a solution due to a change in proportion of the two constituent...

Faraday effect or Faraday rotation, sometimes referred to as the magneto-optic Faraday effect (MOFE), is a physical magneto-optical phenomenon. The Faraday...

enantiomer of a known configuration, as indicated by the opposite sign of optical rotation, it would indicate that the absolute configuration is inverted. In...

written using the obsolete equivalents d- and l-) is based on its optical rotation properties; and the D/L system is based on the molecule's relationship...

various optical properties of a material, including linear birefringence, circular birefringence (also known as optical rotation or optical rotary dispersion)...