A UNIQUENESS RESULT FOR ORTHOGONAL GROUPS AS 2-COMPACT GROUPS D. Notbohm Two connected compact Lie groups are isomorphic if and only if their maximal torus normalizer are isomorphic. It is conjectured that this result generalizes to \pcg s. Here, we prove the generalization for orthogonal groups $O(n)$, the special orthogonal groups $SO(2k+1)$ and the spinor groups $Spin(2k+1)$ considered as 2-compact groups.