A Method of Determining the Sense and Magnitude of Optical Rotation in Uniaxial Crystals, together with a Study of the Gyrotropic Phase Transition of CsCuCl3
- 1 April 1986
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 25 (4R)
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.25.627
Abstract
A method of determining the sense and magnitude of the optical rotatory power of unixial crystals has been developed, and has been used to measure the optical activity of CsCuCl3, a gyrotropic crystal. Virgin crystals grown from aqueous solution were found to be predominantly dextrorotatory, though a crystal with a single gyrotropic domain was rarely found. The racemization effect was produced when the temperature was reduced through the gyrotropic phase transition point at about 420 K.Keywords
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