IGNOU CHE 5 2018 - What are racemic mixtures? How are they obtained? Discuss one method o

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What are racemic mixtures? How are they obtained? Discuss one method of their

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25 Jan 2018

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In chemistry, a racemic mixture 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. A sample with only a single enantiomer is an enantiomerically pure, enantiopure or homochiral compound.

A racemic mixture is denoted by the prefix (±)- or dl- (for sugars the prefix dl- may be

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