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Optical activity and plane-polarised light

Chemistry · A-Level · Edexcel · Edexcel A-level Chemistry — 9CH0 · Specification point · 17.3 · Organic Chemistry II · Chirality

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$know that optical activity is the ability of a single optical isomer to rotate the plane of polarisation of plane-polarised monochromatic light in molecules containing a single chiral centre$