Racemization
CONVERTING OF AN ENANTIOMERICALLY PURE MIXTURE INTO A MIXTURE WHERE MORE THAN ONE OF THE ENANTIOMERS ARE PRESENT
Racemisation; Racemize
In chemistry, racemization is a conversion, by heat or by chemical reaction, of an optically active compound into a racemic (optically inactive) form. Half of the optically active substance becomes its mirror image (enantiomer) referred as racemic mixtures (i.