A new light-activated catalyst breaks and resets carbon–halogen bonds to convert racemic mixtures into enantiomerically ...

living polymerization of optically active polyisocyanides using liquid crystals with chiral (mirror-image isomer) structures as a solvent. Circular dichroism measurements of the resulting ...

If we exclude the panspermia hypothesis, then life on Earth, with key biomolecules utilising only one of two possible mirror-image – or chiral – forms, arose from random “experiments” in ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of asymmetry in nature, where an object or molecule cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image ... helical (blue), as indicated by the helices. (Image: ...

Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination ... left and right hands of a human. In chiral crystals, the spatial arrangement of atoms ...

Chiral molecules, which are left- or right-handed mirror images of one another, are common in nature. Despite being crucial for biological processes like DNA synthesis, chirality is difficult to ...