| | Molecule of the Month: HEXOL |
 | | However, because of the prevailing view that optical activity was integrally related to C atoms, Werner decided that it was necessary to prepare a completely inorganic complex (i.e., no C atoms) to prove that "carbon free inorganic compounds can also exist as mirror-image isomers". |
 | | An expanded section of the IR for the diaqua and hexol salts is shown below as a bitmap. |
 | | Since the resolution of hexol, only a handful of other "completely inorganic complexes" have been resolved, including one, (NH4)2[PtS15] which was once described in the title of the paper as "stinking rich" (7). |
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