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Definiation of racemic mixture and enantiomers. |
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Answer» In chemistry, a racemic MIXTURE, or RACEMATE, 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. |
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