Discovery of internal rotation and conformers of 1,2-dichloroethane: the dawn of the concept of conformation
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In 1932, Mizushima and Higasi reported the dependence of the dipole moments of 1,2-dichloroethane on both temperature and solvent in the Proceedings of the Imperial Academy, Japan. This report was followed by their first proposal of the existence of conformers... ...
