Van't Hoff's asymmetric models, 2000
Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.040
Scope and Contents
Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Netherlands. Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff's cardboard models of malic acid, succinic acid, and tartaric acid. These models enabled van't Hoff to demonstrate the asymmetry that exists around a tetrahedral center in certain molecules.
Dates
- Creation: 2000
Repository Details
Part of the Science History Institute Archives Repository
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215.873.5265 (Fax)
reference@sciencehistory.org