Talk:Chiral drugs

Article title

This article intends to be of limited scope, covering drugs which theoretically exist in multiple stereochemically distinct forms and are not solely used as homochiral (or unichiral) versions. Thus compounds like aspirin, nicotine and ivermectin are not within scope: aspirin has no associated stereochemistry, nicotine is a chiral natural product with a single stereocenter and ivermectin is a mixture but each component is homochiral although having multiple stereocenters. The coverage of the article concerns drugs that exist as eutomers and distomers, usually because they are supplied as racemates.

The title of the article is therefore misleading since the implied scope is much larger than is discussed. I suggest it should be altered to reflect its coverage. Some possibilities are:

• Drugs used as racemates
• Chiral drugs used as racemates
• Drugs with eutomers and distomers
• Chiral drugs with eutomers and distomers

Suggestions and comments would be welcome, with the aim of agreeing an improved title. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:54, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

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