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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: Zainb on July 06, 2011, 09:05:57 AM
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any units used for optical rotation publications,, density units or molarity units ?
for example
+27° (c 0.08??, CHCl3); for c here any units used usually?
Thanks
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_rotation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_rotation)
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Thanks Honclbrif,
I have seen it before.
In this article the unit which used, was density units g/mL.
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Thanks Honclbrif,
I have seen it before.
In this article the unit which used, was density units g/mL.
Read down a touch further - only for pure liquids do you use the density. Everything else uses the concentration, which oddly enough also has the units g/mL, but it is grams of solute per milliliter of solution.
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c usually has units g/100 mL unless otherwise stated (not g/mL). This is also stated in the wikipedia article.
The rotation is reported using degrees, and no units of concentration are given (it is assumed to be g/100mL).
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Thanks Honclbrif and Dan...
I try to confirm the optical rotation for some compounds but I use small scale like 5 mg in 0.6 ml of solvent with optical rotation tube length 0.05 dm..because I worked on small scale synthesis.
if I use g/100ml ,,, I hope it will be ok ???.
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"5 mg in 0.6 ml of solvent"
If you had 100 mL of that solution, how many grams would be present?
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I worked on small scale,,, so I want to change units only.
http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/tools/magnus/optRot.html
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You shouldn't change the units. Specific rotation in the organic chemistry literature is reported invariably with units:
10-1 degrees m2 g-1
and is calculated from the equation:
[a] = 100a/(c x l)
where a is the rotation in degrees measured on the polarimeter; c is concentration in g/100 mL; l is path length in dm.
The units are archaic, very odd, and rarely explicitly mentioned in the literature. I will now never forget them since I was asked to derive them in my PhD defence. That was fun.
Zainb, there is no reason to change your units, why on Earth do you want to?
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Thanks Dan :-*,,,
I used the optical rotation calculator which available from this site,,,
http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/tools/magnus/optRot.html
it give you the same result which can obtained by the equation
[a] = a/(c x l)
my question was on concentration between bracts:
(c ...??, CHCl3); so i will use g/100 mL for it.
Thanks again Dan
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I like to add the units are as of mass concentration
g/100mL (=g/dL)
so will be (g/dL)
where dL is deciliter.