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What does racemic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chemistry) containing equal amounts of dextrorotatory (D) and levorotatory (L) stereoisomers and therefore not being optically active; typically, will be synthetic rather than natural
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For example, Pasteur showed in 1853 that, when racemic acid is mixed with a naturally occurring base, such as cinchonine, the resulting salt is a mixture of diastereoisomers and no longer one of enantiomorphs.
Louis Pasteur performed the first enantiomeric resolution in 1848 while studying crystals of a salt of racemic tartaric acid.
The chemical structure of the natural form of ephedrine is levorotatory, while the synthetic ephedrine is a racemic mixture.
It has developed a new process to separate racemic epoxides by hydrolysis.
The lower isothermal, on the other hand, would be obtained at a temperature at which the racemic compound could be formed.
It has an asymmetric carbon atom and therefore has levo and dextro isomers but is supplied as a racemic mixture for anesthetic use.

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