Racemic Mixture

In chemistry, a racemic mixture, or racemate ( /reɪˈsimeɪt/), is one that has equal amounts of left- and right-handed enantiomers of a chiral molecule. The first known racemic mixture was "racemic acid", which Louis Pasteur found to be a mixture of the two enantiomeric isomers of tartaric acid.

Read more about Racemic Mixture:  Nomenclature, Properties, Crystallization, Resolution, Synthesis, Racemic Pharmaceuticals, Wallach's Rule

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