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 ...

In chemistry, breaking a mirror isn’t always a harbinger of bad luck. Using a trio of catalysts and some blue light, researchers have transformed a racemic mixture of mirror-image molecules into a ...

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 ...

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 – ...