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How can you isolate optical isomers?

Answer 1

With difficulty.

Naturally, it's possible that you got the material from a biological source; in that case, nature has already separated one isomer for you. See this previous response.

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Answer 2

Paisley Boney

Optical isomers, also known as enantiomers, can be isolated using techniques such as crystallization, chromatography, and chiral resolution methods. These methods rely on the differences in physical or chemical properties between the enantiomers. Chiral resolution techniques involve the separation of enantiomers based on their interaction with a chiral resolving agent or a chiral stationary phase in chromatography. Additionally, techniques such as recrystallization or preferential crystallization exploit differences in crystalline structures or solubilities between enantiomers to achieve isolation.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.