The selective synthesis of only one of the two mirror-image forms of a chiral molecule is therefore of major importance. In general, enantiomerically pure compounds can be obtained either by ...

Thus, developing a chemical synthesis reaction that selectively produces one enantiomer of chiral molecules useful in medicine is of great significance in the synthesis of drugs and their precursors.

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 ...

One of the challenges in chemistry involves the synthesis of chiral molecules, which form mirror-image isomers called enantiomers. Typically, only one is desired because the other does not produce ...

A study in Nature Communications uses real-time liquid TEM and cryo-TEM to reveal how core–shell nanowires grow in colloidal ...

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan, recognizes the importance of enantiomers and their synthesis. Many biomolecules are chiral, that is, they exist in ...

Meanwhile, the second catalyst, a chiral copper (II ... s own research involves copper-catalyzed reactions for organic synthesis, and he says the new amide-forming reaction highlights growing ...

This reaction is analogous to the enzymatic growth of amino acids with chiral structures in vivo, which leads to the ...

Recent research of efficient chiral synthesis technologies reveals potential uses in API manufacturing. Andrew Brookes/GETTY IMAGES The majority of small-molecule drugs in development today contain ...

Catenanes are organic compounds with ring-like molecules that are mechanically interlocked. The mechanical locking system in such molecules is so robust that they can only be disentangled via ...