Open AccessRefractive dispersion of organic compounds part VI-Refractivities of the oxygen, carbonyl, and carboxyl radicals. Origin of optical rotatory power and of the anomalous rotatory dispersion of aldehydes and ketones
Publication year - 1934
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1934.0156
Subject(s) - radical , chemistry , dispersion (optics) , oxygen , oxygen atom , refractive index , hexane , refraction , analytical chemistry (journal) , molecule , materials science , organic chemistry , optics , physics , optoelectronics
The refractive indices recorded in the preceding paper were determined in order to prepare the way for an attack, which is still in progress, on the problem of optical exaltation in compounds containing conjugated double bonds. They have, however, an immediate value in that, when combined with the refractive indices ofcyclo hexane, they can be used to determine the refractivities over a wide range of wave-lengths of the three radicals O >O, >C=O, and —C⋜ O—. The formulæ of the compounds in question are set out below:—Refractivities of O, CO,and CO2 (i) In order to deduce the refractivity of theoxygen radical it is only necessary to subtract the refractivity ofcyclo hexane from that ofcyclo hexanol, since these two compounds differ only by a single oxygen atom. R [C6 H11 OH] - R [C6 H12 ] = R [O].