he Greek word stereos means\solid, \and stereochemistry refers to chemistry in three dimensions. The foundations of organic stereochemistry were laid by Jacobus van't Hoff* and Joseph Achille Le Bel in 1874. Independently of each other, van't Hoff and Le Bel proposed that the four bonds to carbon were directed toward the cor- ners of a tetrahedron. One consequence of a tetrahedral arrangement of bonds to carbon
Proof Existence and uniqueness of r(t, u)and A(t)follow from Theorem 3. 1. Hence, in order to prove differentiability and the formula for the derivative, it is sufficient to show that there exist a function C: R++R+ such that C(r)/r-0 as r-0 and E>0 such
3.1.2 A general uniqueness theorem The key issue for uniqueness of solutions turns out to be the maximal slope of a=a(a) to guarantee uniqueness on time interval T=[to, t,, it is sufficient to require existence of a constant M such that