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Racemic vs Nonracemic - What's the difference?

racemic | nonracemic |

As adjectives the difference between racemic and nonracemic

is that racemic is containing equal amounts of dextrorotatory (D) and levorotatory (L) stereoisomers and therefore not being optically active; typically, will be synthetic rather than natural while nonracemic is not racemic.

racemic

English

(wikipedia racemic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (chemistry) containing equal amounts of dextrorotatory (D) and levorotatory (L) stereoisomers and therefore not being optically active; typically, will be synthetic rather than natural

    • Antonyms

    * scalemic

    Anagrams

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    nonracemic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not racemic.

    • Anagrams

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