The concept of stereochemistry is based on which theory
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Louis Pasteur could rightly be described as the first stereochemist, having observed in 1842 that salts of tartaric acid collected from wine production vessels could rotate plane polarized light, but that salts from other sources did not. This property, the only physical property in which the two types of tartrate salts differed, is due to optical isomerism. In 1874, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff and Joseph Le Bel explained optical activity in terms of the tetrahedral arrangement of the atoms bound to carbon.Kekulé used tetrahedral models already 1862, but never published these; Emanuele Paternò probably knew these, but was the first to draw and to discuss 1893 three dimensional structures, such as of 1,2-dibromoethane in the Gazetta Chimica Italiana
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Stereochemistry, a subdiscipline of chemistry, involves the study of the relative spatial arrangement of atoms that form the structure of molecules and their manipulation.