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WE have recently been able to obtain optically pure d- and l-isohydrobenzoin, Ph · CH(OH) · CH(OH) · Ph, by the action of nitrous acid on d- and l-isodiphenyl hydroxyethylamine (Jour. Chem. Soc., 1929, 2305). This result might be considered to point to configuration (ii), rather than (i), for isodiphenylhydroxyethylamine, except for the circumstance that l-isohydrobenzoin is furnished in this way by d-diphenyl-hydroxyethylamine as well as by the l-isobase:
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READ, J., CAMPBELL, I. Optically Active Diphenylethylene Oxide. Nature 125, 16–17 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125016b0
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