Question

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 (-5[1])control by partially completing a reaction and discarding the products. (10[1])This property is naturally present (-5[1])in the products of SN1 (10[1])reactions. (10[2])Louis Pasteur (-5[1])used tweezers (10[5])to show that sodium ammonium tartrate has this property, (10[2]-5[3])giving it an ee (10[1])(“E-E”) of zero. For 10 points, name this property of mixtures (10[1])with no optical activity (10[2])due to an even split of opposite chiralities. (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew WangIllinoisColumbia A74-5
Bryan UgazArizona StateCornell B8410
Yashodev VyasMinnesota BRutgers89-5
Neal JoshiWUSTL BGeorgia Tech9410
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AIndiana9510
Matt SchiavonePurdueYale B9510
Yashwanth BajjiMichiganNorth Carolina B97-5
Liam KusalikWaterlooColumbia B9910
Shiv SeshanChicago DCornell A9910
Justin ZhangDukeNYU9910
Jeffrey FungHarvardJohns Hopkins9910
Paul LeeWUSTL AChicago B9910
Rohan ShelkeBerkeley BVirginia10810
Kevin ParkClaremont CollegesMinnesota A10810
Allan LeeStanfordPenn108-5
Nikhil ChellamNorthwesternVanderbilt108-5
Andrew MinagarYale AChicago A108-5
Jason HongBrownChicago C11210
Andrew HannaPennStanford12210
Drew WetterlindIowa StateKentucky12610
Adrian WongOttawaMcGill12610
Geoffrey WuColumbia AIllinois13410
Rasheeq AzadNorth Carolina BMichigan13510
Kushal AluruRutgersMinnesota B13510
Aidan FeinVanderbiltNorthwestern13510
Adam FineChicago AYale A13510