Chemical ligation is used to create systems with this property that can access the 135 non-Sohncke (“non-ZONE-keh”) groups. Research on this property started with examples that naturally form eutectics and conglomerate into distinct domains. Materials with this property are the inputs for a technique pioneered by Vladimir Prelog’s work with Troger’s base, which often uses supercritical CO2 as a mobile phase. If a reagent is cheap, it is practical to remove this bulk property through kinetic control by partially completing a reaction and discarding the products. This property is naturally present in the products of SN1 reactions. Louis Pasteur used tweezers to show that sodium ammonium tartrate has this property, giving it an ee (“E-E”) of zero. For 10 points, name this property of mixtures with no optical activity due to an even split of opposite chiralities. ■END■
ANSWER: racemic mixtures [or racemate; accept quasi-racemic; accept racemic crystallography; prompt on opposite chirality, mixed chirality, handedness, or achirality until “chiralities” is read; prompt on optically inactive or equivalents until “optical” is read]
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