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Optical rotation

Known as: Optically active compound, Rotation (disambiguation), Rotary polarization 
Optical rotation or optical activity (sometimes referred to as rotary polarization) is the rotation of the plane of polarization of linearly… 
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Akhlesh LakhtakiaBasis (linear algebra)BirefringenceChirality (chemistry)

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Polarization (waves)

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Facilitating room-temperature Suzuki coupling reaction with light: Mott-Schottky photocatalyst for C-C-coupling
The Suzuki coupling reaction is one of the most practiced classes of catalytic C-C bond formation. The development of new means… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Active magneto-plasmonics in hybrid metal–ferromagnet structures
Active switching of plasmons by an external magnetic field is demonstrated in a metal–ferromagnet–metal structure. The strong… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Tailoring of arbitrary optical vector beams
We present a robust interferometric method to generate arbitrary vector beam modes by diffracting a Gaussian laser beam from a… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Mechanisms of cluster ionization in strong laser pulses
Femtosecond laser pulses have proven to provide valuable insight into the dynamics of microscopic systems by using pump–probe… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Heterogeneous catalysis on chitosan-based materials: a review
Review
2001
Review
2001
Mesoporous and Mesostructured Materials for Optical Applications
Mesostructured and mesoporous materials are emerging as a new class of optical materials. For mesostructured materials (inorganic… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
New developments in enantioselective hydrogenation
Abstract 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Synthesis of optically active α-amino acids
Asymmetric derivatization of glycine. Homologation of the beta-carbon. Electrophilic amination of enolates. Nucleophilic… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Asymmetric glycine enolate aldol reactions: synthesis of cyclosporin's unusual amino acid, MeBmt
Synthese de l'acide (hydroxy-3 methyl-4 methylamino-2) octene-6oique apr aldolisation entre l'enolate de la (benzyl-4… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Molecular Optical Activity and the Chiral Discriminations
1. Introduction 2. Optical rotatory dispersion and circular dichroism 3. General mechanisms for optical activity 4. The symmetric… 
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