Their work, recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Synthesis, showcases the development of a compact catenane with tuneable mechanical chirality, offering promising applications in areas ...

Over 90% of U.S. prescriptions are filled by local pharmacies, which also serve as vital public health providers. Nearly 18% of Americans live in “pharmacy deserts,” with entire communities de ...

Terahertz light has the ability to control solids at the atomic level, forming chiral structures of left- and right-handedness. Credit: Zhiyang Zeng (MPSD), edited Researchers have discovered a method ...

Terahertz light has the ability to control solids at the atomic level, forming chiral structures of left- and right-handedness. Credit: Zhiyang Zeng (MPSD), edited A new technique involving terahertz ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of matter that determines many biological, chemical and physical phenomena. Chiral solids, for example, offer exciting opportunities for catalysis, sensing and ...

Chirality, a property of an object being non-superimposable on its mirror image, is a critical natural aspect in a spectrum of spaces ranging from basic molecules to galaxies. Concerted efforts ...

In a recent review article published in the Journal of Chromatography A, a team of researchers provided an overview of the strides made in the separation of chiral enantiomers of drugs (1). To ...

In trying to produce artificial chirality in the lab, chemists have found that the distribution of a magnetic field is itself chiral. Some molecules exist in two forms such that their structures ...

Chemists have synthesized the first stable molecule whose chirality is solely attributed to a stereogenic oxygen, according to a new study (Nature 2023, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05719-z).

To explore the concept of chirality, look at your hands, palms up. Clearly, the two are mirror images of one another. But try as we might to superimpose them, they will not overlap completely.