ORGLIST:meso and racemic?

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From: Sylvie Ducki (sylvie_ducki$##$yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 12:13:43 EDT

Dear All,

My colleague and I have been discussing a stereochemistry puzzle. Appart from using X-ray , how could you differentiate a meso compound from a racemic mixture of the two enantiomers? For example, tartaric acid. What if only one compound had been isolated?

Dr Sylvie Ducki (and Dr. Steve Simpson)

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