Question

A racemic mixture is formed by mixing two

Answer 1

Racemic mixture:

• “A mixture containing two enantiomers in equal proportions will have zero optical rotation, as the rotation due to one isomer will be canceled by the rotation due to the other isomer. Such a mixture is known as a racemic mixture or racemic modification.”
• “A racemic mixture is represented by prefixing $\mathrm{dl}\mathrm{or}(\pm )$ before the name”.

Example of racemic mixture:

• $(\pm )$butan-$2$-ol is a racemic mixture.