Pharmaceuticals / Organic Chemicals
The sterochemical nature of pharmaceutical and organic chemicals, coupled with their interaction with light (specifically, their rotation of the plane of polarized light traveling through them) affords a powerful opportunity for identifying specific compounds and enantiomers. As a well-established principle in the pharmaceutical sciences, the optical activity of certain compounds can be explained by their bonding. Mirror image (chiral) structures of the same compound rotate light in opposite directions.
There are many applications for the use of polarized light in these fields, including:
In addition, PM-IRRAS investigation of organic films uniquely benefits from an unambiguous detection of the differential absorption between left and right circularly polarized light.
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