Mirror, mirror on the wall, which enantiomer is fairest of them all?

J Clin Psychiatry

Neuroscience Education Institute, 5857 Owens Street, Ste. 102, Carlsbad, CA 92009, USA.

Published: August 2002

Numerous psychotropic drugs exist as a mixture of 2 mirror-image stereoisomers of each other, each called an enantiomer and the mixture called a racemate. Often the drug can be improved when only 1 of the enantiomers is administered.

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