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#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology
When equal amounts of extrorotatory and levorotatory isomers are present, the resulting mixture becomes optically inactive because the optical activities of each isomer cancel each other.
Such a mixture is called a racemic or dl-mixture or (±)-conglomerate and this process of converting an optically active compound into the racemic modification is known of racemization.
