The control of artificial double-helical structures, which are essential for the development of high-order molecular systems, remains difficult. In a new study, researchers have developed novel double ...

Nagoya, Japan - Researchers at Nagoya University have reported in Nature Communications, on the development of an organic catalyst (organocatalyst) that triggers a highly stereoselective 1,6-addition ...

Chemists fill a major gap in origin-of-life theories. Molecules often have a structural asymmetry called chirality, which means they can appear in alternative, mirror-image versions, akin to the left ...

Doubly stapled α-helix consisting only of achiral amino acids. Its one-handed form can be isolated because the interconversion between the right- and left-handed forms is almost completely suppressed.

LA JOLLA, CA – February 2, 2017 – Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have invented a new technique for constructing chiral drug molecules. Chiral molecules are those whose structural ...

Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have invented a new technique for constructing chiral drug molecules. Chiral molecules are those whose structural complexity allows them to have ...

Inspired by chiral molecular structures, scientists are developing strategies to build artificial chiral materials by mimicking natural molecular structures using functional materials. Specifically, ...

Some molecules exist in two forms, such that their structures and their mirror images are not superimposable, like our left and right hands. As a result of their asymmetry, these molecules exhibit a ...

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 ...

Chemists from the University of Groningen have found a simple way to produce previously inaccessible chiral Z-alkenes, molecules that offer a significant synthetic short-cut for the production of ...