enantiomeric
Adjective
Meaning
enantiomeric (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to an enantiomer or the relation between enantiomers.
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Most pharmaceutical preparations of ketamine are racemic ; however, some brands reportedly have (mostly undocumented) differences in their enantiomeric proportions.
One of the steps in this sequence allows the isolation of enantiopure ribose aminooxazoline if the enantiomeric excess of glyceraldehyde is 60% or greater, of possible interest towards biological homochirality.
The salt is effectively removed by chelation with tetraethylethylene diamine (TEEDA) resulting in an enantiomeric excess of 92%.
In the example shown below, the meso form of tartaric acid forms a diastereomeric pair with both levo and dextro tartaric acids, which form an enantiomeric pair.