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racemateMixture of equal quantities of two enantiomers, substances whose molecular structures are mirror images of one another (see isomer). The two enantiomers rotate polarized light through opposite angles, canceling each other out so that the racemic mixture has no optical activity. Racemization is the conversion of an optically active form of a compound into a racemic mixture; reversing this process is called resolution. |
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| Known as a specific poison since the sixth century, the structure was not elucidated until 1964 by Woodward (1972), the Kishi-Goto group, and the Tsuda-Ikuma group simultaneously, and Kishi's group accomplished its total racemic synthesis (Goto et al. Stereo errors are those that are created by the 1,2 insertion of propylene, but with a racemic orientation of the methyl group with relation to the adjacent methyl groups. In the hospital, the patient was treated with alternating albuterol and racemic epinephrine aerosols in addition to a systemic steroid, but relief was minimal. |
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