Correlation between optical rotation sign and conformation of γ-butyrolactones

Abstract

trans-4,5-Disubstituted-γ-butyrolactones are found to adopt different conformations by NMR spectroscopy; their optical rotation signs are found to depend on the conformations they assume.

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