You can get a good idea of chirality by putting a right-handed glove on your left hand—two identical shapes that cannot be superimposed because they are mirror images of each other. This property is common in our universe, ...
Materials Science
Dec 8, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at Harvard University has developed a catalytic technique that allows for selecting a single enantiomer (mirror-image isomers) when choosing between one of two mirrored possibilities. In ...
Molecules made in labs often have a downside that nature mysteriously avoids. The problem is that many molecules are chiral, which means they have an asymmetrical structure. A consequence of chirality is that when we synthesize ...
Nanophysics
Sep 25, 2017
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Sander Wezenberg, and PhD students Thomas van Leeuwen and Kaja Sitkowska, from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, spoke to us about their work in chirality and molecular motors, and the seaside scene on the cover ...
Materials Science
Sep 22, 2017
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An international team of researchers, led by Mark E. Davis at Caltech, has succeeded in making the first chiral molecular sieves. This discovery opens new areas of investigation in both chemistry and biology, and has broad ...
Materials Science
May 1, 2017
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University of Bath scientists have used gold spring-shaped coils 5,000 times thinner than human hairs and powerful lasers to enable the detection of twisted molecules, and the applications could improve pharmaceutical design, ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 3, 2017
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Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have invented a new technique for constructing chiral drug molecules.
Materials Science
Feb 2, 2017
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Researchers at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona have developed a method that transforms cyclic carbonates that can be easily obtained from CO2 into more valuable, chiral molecules chemists ...
Materials Science
Jan 16, 2017
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Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have invented a new technique for constructing one-handed or "chiral" drug molecules. The new method is already being adopted by pharmaceutical researchers.
Materials Science
Sep 1, 2016
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Many molecules have a chemical structure that is "chiral" - they come in two forms, each with an arrangement of atoms that are mirror images of each other.
Materials Science
Aug 4, 2016
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