JEE Advanced Chemistry question

In which case racemic mixture is obtained on mixing its mirror images in 1:1 molar ratio

(A)Correct
(B)
(C)
(D)In all cases

Answer: (A)

Solution

is a chiral, tris-chelate octahedral complex that exists as a genuine pair of non-superimposable mirror-image enantiomers; mixing these two enantiomers in equal (1:1) amounts gives an optically inactive racemic mixture —

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