Racemic Mixture: Whenever we synthesize an enantiomer in the laboratory, the other enantiomer of the same compound is also formed simultaneously because the two forms differ only in the tetrahedral arrangement of the atoms or group of atom about asymmetric carbon. Thus, we obtain a mixture which when dissolved in water does not rotate the path of plane-polarized light as the rotation due to one form cancels out the rotation due to the other form. Such a mixture is referred to as a racemic mixture. Thus, an equimolar (1:1) mixture of the enantiomers (dextro and laevo forms) is called a … Continue reading Racemic Mixture and its Resolution