05029 IUPAC Gold Book - racemic mixture 10.1351/goldbook.R05029 R05029 current 1 The term is confusing since it has been used as a synonym for both racemate and racemic conglomerate. Usage strongly discouraged. racemate https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/R05025 racemic conglomerate https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/R05028 PAC, 1996, 68, 2193. 'Basic terminology of stereochemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1996)' on page 2216 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199668122193) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/R05029/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/R05029/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/R05029/plain Citation: 'racemic mixture' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.R05029 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-24T15:38:05+00:00