A team at ETH Zurich developed a new peptide-based organocatalyst that handles macrocycle formation from start to finish.

(Nanowerk News) The role of electrons and their negative charge in electric current is well established. Electrons also exhibit other intrinsic properties that are associated, for example, with ...

The study of chiral molecules – entities that exist in non-superimposable mirror images – has profound implications across a range of scientific disciplines, from synthetic chemistry to ...

Photocatalysts facilitate chemical reactions by absorbing light. Metal-based photocatalysts are widely used in organic ...

What the research is about Chirality is known an important property that influences the scent of lemons and the ...

Research into chiral molecules has long been driven by the quest to understand the subtle differences between enantiomers—molecules that are mirror images yet non-superimposable. Recent advances in ...

Chiral molecules are common in medicines because chirality is common in nature, from spiraling vines and shells to amino acids and various proteins, to the human body's protein receptors, the site of ...

Chirality -- a geometric property that allows molecules to exist in two distinct forms that are chemically identical but are 3D mirror images of each other, like a right and left hand -- has a ...

Can you imagine a life-saving molecule whose “twin” is a deadly poison? As surprising as it may seem, this chemical reality is known as “chirality”. Like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules ...

Researchers verified the chiral-induced spin selectivity effect, i.e., the influence of chiral molecules on spin, using spintronic analytical techniques. Researchers at Mainz University verified the ...