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6.10 Racemic Mixtures and the Resolution of Enantiomers Summary and Key Words: A molecule that is not identical to its mirror image is said to be chiral, meaning handed. A chiral molecule is one that does not contain a plane of Symmetry. The usual cause of chirality is the presence of a tetrahedral carbon atom bonded to four different groups--a so called stereocenter. Chiral compounds can exist as a paired mirror-image stereoisomers called enantiomers, which are related to each other as a right hand is related to a left hand. When a beam of plane-polarized light is