Overlooked opportunities in stereochemistry, part IV. Eilhard Mitscherlich's near discovery of conglomerate crystallization: On the sesquicentennial of Pasteur's resolution of sodium ammonium racemate

Enantiomer

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-45

  Kauffman, George B ^a   Bernal, Ivan ^b   Schütt, Hans Werner ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conglomerate crystallization; Crystallography; Enantiomerism; History of chemistry; History of science; Organic chemistry; Racemic acid; Resolution; Stereochemistry

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; SODIUM; TARTARIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; HISTORY; ISOMERISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIC MIXTURE; REVIEW; SCIENCE; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0032904889     PISSN: 10242430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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