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racemic mixtureracemo structures in polymers
racemization
The production of a racemate from a chiral starting material in which one enantiomer is present in excess.
Source:
PAC, 1996, 68, 2193 (Basic terminology of stereochemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1996)) on page 2216
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Cite as: IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, Electronic version, http://goldbook.iupac.org/R05030.html.
Transformed and rewritten from PDF version (entry http://www.iupac.org/goldbook/R05030.pdf)
by: Miloslav Nic, Jiri Jirat, Bedrich Kosata, ICT Prague, Czech Republic
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