Natural products derived from plants, fungi, and even microbes have been fruitful sources of drugs. Now research shows that their chemical mirror images may be an underexplored source of potential ...

When chemists need to separate one chiral molecule from a mixture of enantiomers—for instance, when synthesizing potential drug molecules—they often turn to high-performance liquid chromatography ...

Researchers of Tomsk Polytechnic University collaboratively with colleagues from the Czech Republic developed supersensitive sensors for detecting enantiomers, known as 'mirror molecules', in drugs.

Many chemical compounds exist in two variants, called enantiomers. These consist of the same elements but act as mirror images of each other. In reference to our hands, which are also mirror images, ...

Optically active compounds are increasingly important in organic chemistry and in industry. Approximately half of the thousands of drugs known have chiral structures, many of which show dramatic ...

Wenzheng Fan is in the New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry and Shanghai–Hong Kong Joint Laboratory in Chemical Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic ...

The single-handedness of biological molecules is critical for molecular recognition and replication processes and would seem to be a prerequisite for the origin of life. A drawback of recently ...

Thalidomide, one of the most infamous drugs of all, caused severe birth defects in the children of pregnant women who took the drug for nausea in the 1950s. Its story has been repeated over and over – ...

The groundbreaking work by Louis Pasteur on the resolution of racemic sodium ammonium tartrate in 1848 originated the concept of molecular chirality. It turns out that most biomolecules are chiral, ...