{"term":{"id":"05028","title":"racemic conglomerate","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - racemic conglomerate","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.R05028","code":"R05028","status":"current","also defines":"<em>also defines<\/em>: spontaneous resolution","synonym":"<em>synonym<\/em>: conglomerate","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"An equimolar mechanical mixture of crystals each one of which contains only one of the two enantiomers present in a racemate. The process of its formation on crystallization of a racemate is called spontaneous resolution, since pure or nearly pure enantiomers can often be obtained from the conglomerate by sorting.","links":[{"term":"conglomerate","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/C01263"},{"term":"crystallization","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/C01434"},{"term":"enantiomers","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/E02069"},{"term":"racemate","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/R05025"}],"sources":["PAC, 1996, 68, 2193. 'Basic terminology of stereochemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1996)' on page 2216 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac199668122193)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/R05028\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/R05028\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/R05028\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'racemic conglomerate' 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.R05028","license":"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.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"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.","accessed":"2026-06-07T04:22:36+00:00"}}