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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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