Macroscale and Microscale Organic Experiments
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Author: Kenneth L. Williamson, Katherine M. Masters
Publisher: Brooks Cole
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One of the analgesics has a chiral center. Which compound is it? One of the two enantiomers is far more effective at reducing pain than the other.
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