This fact is not astonishing at all. Obviously in the two molecular configurations of enantiomers the inter-atomic and inter-grouping distances are same and thus the interactions of both kinds of molecule with their fellows are the same. Again logically since an enantiomer has a unique property of rotating the plane of polarized light in either of two possible directions i.e. either to the right or to the left, the other of the two possible enantiomers must rotate the Plane of polarized light in opposite direction with respect to the former. The two lactic acids are not only acids, but acids of exactly the same strength; that is dissolved at the same concentration; both ionize to exactly the same degree. Let us consider the reaction of two lactic acid with the achiral molecule methanol with which We have no question of optical activity. It can be represented pictorially in the following way: