Organic Chemistry - Standalone book
Organic Chemistry - Standalone book
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ISBN: 9780073511214
Author: Francis A Carey Dr., Robert M. Giuliano
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 21, Problem 32P
Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

An explanation corresponding to ‘the racemization of (R)-()-Piperitone in a solution of sodium ethoxide in ethanol’ and ‘the conversion of menthone to a mixture of menthone and isomenthone on treatment with 90% sulfuric acid’ are to be stated.

Concept introduction:

The mixture that has equal number of enantiomers is commonly known as racemic mixture. The racemic mixture is optically inactive in nature.

Enantiomers are non-superimposable mirror images of each other and therefore; they rotate the plane of polarized light in equal and opposite direction.

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