A newly developed method allows researchers to dynamically switch chirality—a particular lack of mirror symmetry—to generate ...

Raman optical activity, long thought to require chiral molecules or magnetic order, has been demonstrated in an achiral, ...

Asymmetric synthesis harnesses chiral catalysts and reaction design to create molecules in which one enantiomer predominates, a capability vital for pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and materials ...

Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have conceived a strategy using chiral nickel catalysts to facilitate the carboboration of alkenes, generating high-value enantioenriched ...

Chirality is a fundamental geometric and physical property ubiquitous in nature, playing a critical role in food safety, pharmaceutical development ...

Like carbon and silicon, germanium’s lighter brethren on the periodic table, the metalloid can bond to four different groups, forming a chiral, tetrahedral molecule. Researchers at Nankai University ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new superconductor with a chiral crystalline structure by mixing two materials, one with superconductivity but no chirality ...

Scientists have made a significant leap forward in the field of chiral molecules. The team achieved near-complete separation in quantum states for these essential components of life. This discovery ...

The idea that you can take two different radicals and get them to react with one another without losing stereochemistry, without using a chiral ligand, without any side products, and with a single ...

The asymmetric synthesis of chiral nitrogen compounds occupies a central role in modern organic chemistry owing to the prevalence of nitrogen-containing stereocentres in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals ...