In nature, there exist structures that are mirror images of each other but cannot be perfectly superimposed. These are known ...

Metal cluster molecules are discrete compounds containing multiple metal atoms held together by metal–metal and metal–ligand bonding. They serve as excellent candidates for catalysts, biosensors, and ...

A new method of distinguishing chiral molecules could eventually detect distortions inside quantum and soft materials, find ...

The idea that you can take two different radicals and get them to react with one another without losing stereochemistry, ...

Axial chirality arises when restricted rotation about a molecular axis generates enantiomeric conformers known as atropisomers. Such stereochemical motifs are ubiquitous in biaryls, heterobiaryls and ...

Like carbon and silicon, germanium’s lighter brethren on the periodic table, the metalloid can bond to four different groups, forming a chiral, tetrahedral molecule. Researchers at Nankai University ...

A new platform for engineering chiral electron pathways offers potential fresh insights into a quantum phenomenon discovered by chemists—and exemplifies how the second quantum revolution is fostering ...

Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have conceived a strategy using chiral nickel catalysts to facilitate the carboboration of alkenes, generating high-value enantioenriched ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new superconductor with a chiral crystalline structure by mixing two materials, one with superconductivity but no chirality ...

Chirality, or "handedness," is a fundamental property of objects, from galaxies to molecules, and plays a crucial role in biological systems. However, chiral compounds in living organisms such as ...

The asymmetric synthesis of chiral nitrogen compounds occupies a central role in modern organic chemistry owing to the prevalence of nitrogen-containing stereocentres in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals ...