Cotton effect of L-mandelic add and its chiral derivatives L-ethylmandelate, L-ethyl chloro phenyl acetate and L-chloro phenyl acetyl chloride has been studied from their CD spectra, which shows their absolute configurations. The observed variation in the CD data has been explained as the effect of the electronic factors of substituents on the optical activity of the chiral molecules.


M HAMMAD KHAN ,TASNEEM ZAHRA RIZVI ,M AKRAM KASHMIRI ,