In many areas of chemistry the synthesis of chiral compounds is a target of increasing importance. They play a vital role in biological function and in many areas of society and science, including ...

The recognition of chirality in bioactive molecules is as old as modern organic chemistry itself. Pioneering work by Jean-Baptiste Biot, Louis Pasteur, Emil Fischer, and J. vant Hoff established ...

Researchers have designed and built a new chemical tool inspired by natural metal-containing enzymes in living organisms. The product, a tetrahedral "chiral zinc", maintains its shape for years, ...

New research shows how metal surfaces that lack mirror symmetry could provide a novel approach towards manufacturing pharmaceuticals. New research shows how metal surfaces that lack mirror symmetry ...

Chemists at UC Davis are using catalysts (shown in gray spheres) to make organic compounds (blue sticks) with a specific chirality, or “handedness.” Most biological molecules are chiral, including ...

The commercial availability of an increasing diversity of enzymes has led to the growing use of biocatalysts for API synthesis. The complexity of both small-molecule and large-molecule drugs is ...

An experiment designed to untangle spectroscopy signals coming from a complex mix of molecules and nanoparticles has revealed a surprising detail about the handedness of the self-assembled ...

Functionalized supramolecular catalysts and an enantioselective route to unnatural amino acids are some recent developments. The goal of reaching desired enantioselectivity of active pharmaceutical ...

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a chip-scale device ...

Engineers created a MEMS-tunable twisted bilayer photonic crystal chip that dynamically adjusts twist angle and spacing to ...