Which outcome occurs when applying torsional stress to chiral molecules?

💡 Explanation

Racemization converts enantiomers because torsional stress lowers the activation energy for interconversion, thus accelerating epimerization. Stereochemical configuration is averaged rather than an increase in one isomer, because other processes maintaining ratios are negligibly slow.

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