question archive Drugs that are laboratory synthesized are often produced either achiral or chiral and is sold as racemates
Drugs that are laboratory synthesized are often produced either achiral or chiral and is sold as racemates
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- Drugs that are laboratory synthesized are often produced either achiral or chiral and is sold as racemates. Ibuprofen, a well-known painkiller drug, for example, has one chirality center and available in the market under the trade names: Advil, Nuprin, and Motrin as a 50:50 mixture of its R and S structure.
a. How does the presence of inactive enantiomer in the racemic mixture affect the other one once it entered the human body?
