A new technique involving terahertz light has enabled the creation of chiral states in non-chiral materials, offering ...

Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination of rotations or translations, much like the distinct left and right hands of a human. In chiral ...

Researchers at Leipzig University have developed a new process for reversing the polarity of chemical compounds, also known ...

The diverse chiral space covered by enzymes can also ... and especially for chemical biologists working at the interface of chemistry and biology.

Researchers at Leipzig University have developed a new process for reversing the polarity of chemical compounds, also known as umpolung, for the precise synthesis of pharmaceuticals. This innovative ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

Certainly Jung might suggest that the thalidomide narrative, with its tragic consequences for innocents, dramatically illustrates why chirality is a critical concept in chemistry — in ways that ...

If everything that occurs at the microscopic, molecular level in plants and animals and other life forms occurs as a result ...

Chirality is the property of an object that makes it different from its mirror image, like our left and right hands. In ...

Planar chiral paracyclophanes, which consist of two appropriately substituted benzene rings connected by ethylene bridges in para positions, are versatile compounds used in synthetic chemistry as ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a £1.4m research grant to Professor Stefano Pagliara, University of Exeter, ...