Light is an electromagnetic wave, and its vibration direction is perpendicular to its forward direction. Light waves of ordinary light can vibrate on various planes. If ordinary light passes through a Nicol prism or an artificial polarizer, only the light whose vibration direction is parallel to the crystal axis of the prism can pass and this kind of light that only vibrates on one plane is called plane polarized light. When plane polarized light passes through a solution containing a certain substance, the substance is called an optically active substance if the light is deflected. At a certain wavelength and temperature, the optical rotation produced by polarized light passing through a solution with a length of 1 dm and containing 1 g of optically active substance per 1 ml is called the specific rotation. Specific rotation is an important physical constant of optically active substances which be used to distinguish drugs or determine the content and purity of drugs.
Figure 1. The specific optical rotations of flexible molecules are calculated using density functional theory and correlated with their absolute configurations. (Lu, J.; et al. 2020)
We calculate the specific optical rotations of the two chiral molecular configurations to determine the absolute configuration of the molecule. Alfa Chemistry has created an optimized and validated process for specific rotation calculation:
We optimize the structure of a pair of enantiomers.
We then use the optimized molecule in the previous step as the initial structure to calculate the specific rotation of S and R types, and calculate the specific optical rotation.
Finally, we provide the specific rotation of each configuration at different incident wavelengths.
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