The handedness of small organic molecules has fascinated many generations of scientists, particularly owing to the pioneering contributions of Louis Pasteur and Emil Fischer. Modern science has ...

The new method enables what had been impossible except in narrow cases: creating a center of chiral asymmetry at a hard-to-reach position called the "gamma" position on a cyclic carboxylic acid ...

The new method enables what had been impossible except in narrow cases: creating a center of chiral asymmetry at a hard-to-reach position called the “gamma” position on a cyclic carboxylic acid.

Although chiral structures are chemically identical ... some places—small inconsistencies or holes that can become the center of a spiral. "Defects are actually unfavorable in terms of energy ...