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Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'An optically active arsonic acid possessing molecular dissymmetry. Resolution of dl-spirobis- 3:5-dioxan-4:4'-di (phenyl-p-arsonic acid)' by Charles Stanley Gibson and Barnett Levin

Reference number: RR/49/133

Date: June 1933

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Sectional Committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Criticises the confused use of the terms asymmetry and dissymetry, along with some other minor points.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1933]

Endorsed on verso as received 2 June 1933.

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RR/49/133
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June 1933
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William Jackson Pope, Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'An optically active arsonic acid possessing molecular dissymmetry. Resolution of dl-spirobis- 3:5-dioxan-4:4'-di (phenyl-p-arsonic acid)' by Charles Stanley Gibson and Barnett Levin, June 1933, RR/49/133, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_49_133/referees-report-by-william-jackson-pope-on-a-paper-an-optically-active-arsonic-acid-possessing-molecular-dissymmetry-resolution-of-dl-spirobis-35-dioxan-44-di-phenyl-p-arsonic-acid-by-charles-stanley-gibson-and-barnett-levin, accessed on 10 August 2026

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