A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a ...

A new study has uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping life’s earliest molecular structures, shedding light on ...

Scripps Research chemists have accomplished a long-elusive feat in synthetic chemistry: the invention of a broadly useful method for constructing "gamma chiral centers" on simple starting ...

Trimerization of commercially available coprostanone (a steroid ketone with a cis A/B ring junction) by treatment with titanium tetrachloride yields this unusual, chiral, cleft-containing molecule.

"These so-called chiral molecules demonstrate a handedness ... When used as a component of medicines, for example, the original molecule can have the desired effect, while its mirror image can ...

Aliphatic compounds play a crucial role in pharmaceutical ... The introduction of chiral sulfur(VI) into polyaromatic hydrocarbons has been a formidable challenge due to the intricate ...

For the development of asymmetric reductive coupling of imines to form chiral vicinal diamines through the discovery of diboron-enabled [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangements. The team has developed a new ...

Glucose is a chiral molecule, which means that it has an inherent structural asymmetry that causes polarized light to rotate its orientation of oscillation when it interacts with the molecule.