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Topic: How does Morphine seperate racemic mixtures?  (Read 5223 times)

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How does Morphine seperate racemic mixtures?
« on: March 23, 2005, 05:10:24 PM »
I would like to say I've attempted this problem before looking for help, but I have to admitt I have NO idea how to go about answering this problem:
      Describe how Morphine is used to separate a racemic mixture of the amino acid, phenylalanine, showing the chemical reactions at appropriate places????

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Re:How does Morphine seperate racemic mixtures?
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2005, 09:07:18 PM »
It makes diastereomers
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Re:How does Morphine seperate racemic mixtures?
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2005, 01:10:09 AM »
Morphine is an optically active base. With racemic acids it can form diastereomeric salts that can be separated by a fractional crystallization.
« Last Edit: March 24, 2005, 01:12:48 AM by AWK »
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Re:How does Morphine seperate racemic mixtures?
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2005, 07:04:55 AM »
I believe there is some info at synthetikal. you'll have to log in to search the opioid threads tho.

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« Last Edit: April 16, 2005, 03:07:01 PM by Mitch »
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