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Chance and the prepared mind. (Louis Pasteur's discovery of mirror-image isomerism in salts of racemic acid)
Chemistry and Industry
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May 4, 1998|
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'In the fields of observation, chance favours only those minds that have been prepared.' This was the frequently quoted maxim of Louis Pasteur, and at no time was it truer than when he accidentally discovered mirror-image isomerism among the salts of racemic acid (reported to the Parisian Academie des Sciences on 15 May 1848).
This first and most famous resolution of an optically active compound was to immortalise Pasteur's name in the annals of chemistry, more than a decade before he reached notoriety as the founder of microbiology. It is a classic experiment that is ...
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