racemic mixture

A racemic mixture, or racemate, is a chemical mixture that contains equal amounts of both the left- and right-handed enatiomers of a chiral molecule.[1]

Racemethorphan is a racemate of dextromethorphan and levomethorphan.

^ IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8. doi:10.1351/goldbook.

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