Two optical isomers can form:
An equimolar mixture of two optical isomers is called a racemic mixture.
What is a Racemic mixture?
An equimolar mixture of two enantiomers that is optically inactive is known as a racemic mixture (or racemate) (i.e. does not rotate plane-polarized light).
The racemic mixture can be created by:
- Combining enantiomers in equal amounts, or (more frequently)
- Reactions that create one or more new chiral centers without the influence of chirality (i.e. chiral reagent, catalyst, etc.)
The light that is plane-polarized does not spin in an optically inactive mixture.
Since each enantiomer rotates plane-polarized light to an equal and opposite extent, an equimolar mixture of two enantiomers will typically result in a racemic mixture. There won't be any net rotation if they are both present in equal proportions.
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