Mémoire sur les acides aspartique et malique, Pasteur, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Volumes 34-36 [bound as one], 1852, pp. 30-64
Paris: Victor Masson, 1852. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT PAPER BY PASTEUR ON MOLECULAR ASYMMETRY, one of a series on tartaric and paratartaric acid in which he would establish the molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain crystals and racemization. “Early in his career, his investigation of tartaric..... More