Racemic mixture
MIXTURE WITH EQUAL AMOUNTS OF LEFT- AND RIGHT-HANDED ENANTIOMERS OF A CHIRAL MOLECULE
Racemate; Racemic mixtures; Racemic; Racemic Mixture; Racemates; Wallach's rule; Chemical conglomerate; Racemic modification; Racemic Mixtures; Racemat
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.