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Optical rotatory dispersion is the variation of the specific rotation of a medium with respect to the wavelength of light. Usually described Drude's empirical relation,
,
where is the specific rotation at temperature and wavelength , and and are constants that depend on the properties of the medium.[1]
Optical rotatory dispersion has applications in organic chemistry regarding determining the structure of organic compounds.[2]