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Is cocaine (Worked Example 5-2) dextrorotatory or levorotatory?
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Optical rotation is a measure of the way a compound rotates plane-polarized light. If the light is rotated clockwise (to the right), the compound is dextrorotatory. If the light is rotated counterclockwise (to the left), the compound is levorotatory. Show more…
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