Viedma ripening
= Viedma ripening
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Viedma ripening is a process used in the field of crystallization, specifically in the area of chiral compounds. It is a way to achieve enantiomerically pure crystals from a racemic mixture—that is, a mixture containing equal amounts of two enantiomers (mirror-image molecules) of a compound. The method was developed by the chemist José Viedma in 2005.