{"id":9389,"date":"2023-03-15T05:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T05:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/organic-chemistry-enantiomeric-excess-and-specific-rotation-questions-very-short-2-questions\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T10:00:46","slug":"organic-chemistry-enantiomeric-excess-and-specific-rotation-questions-very-short-two-questions","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/organic-chemistry-enantiomeric-excess-and-specific-rotation-questions-very-short-two-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic Chemistry, enantiomeric excess and specific rotation questions, very short two questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12 messageContent\">\n <b>Learning Goal: <\/b>I&#8217;m working on a chemistry question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn.<\/p>\n<p>1. The specific rotation of pure (+)-camphor is +44 degrees. A sample containing this compound and its enantiomer in some combination was found to have a specific rotation of 27 degrees. What is the fraction (in decimal form, 0 &lt; x &lt; 1) of (+)-camphor in the mixture<\/p>\n<p>2. The specific rotation of a pure chiral (+) molecule is 15\u00c2\u00ba. What is the specific rotation (in degrees) of a solution that is 81% of the (+) enantiomer? Best to do the calculation to at least 3 significant figures but then please report your answer to 2 significant figures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"questions-requirements\">\n<p class=\"requirement\">Requirements: just the answer<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Goal: I&#8217;m working on a chemistry question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn. 1. The specific rotation of pure (+)-camphor is +44 degrees. A sample containing this compound and its enantiomer in some combination was found to have a specific rotation of 27 degrees. What is the fraction (in decimal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[648],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9391,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9389\/revisions\/9391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=9389"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=9389"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=9389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}