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Enantiomeric excess (ee)

A measure of chiral purity: ee (%) = (R - S)/(R + S) x 100, where R and S are the measured quantities of the two enantiomers. For methamphetamine, high ee of the d-form implies stereospecific pseudoephedrine reduction; near-zero ee implies P2P racemic synthesis.

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