The vast majority of organic molecules (based on a carbon structure) are not flat, but have a three-dimensional geometry.

$3.9 billion was wiped off Sepracor's market capitalization as investors called into question the entire utility of single enantiomers as a means of improving drugs and managing product life cycles.

Understanding the nature of chiral molecules is crucial to biological and pharmaceutical research because the mirror image ...

The results are important because, while the left- and right-handed versions, or enantiomers, of chemical compounds have identical chemical properties, they differ in how they react in the human body.

Nearly 56% of all modern drugs and medicine are chiral in nature, and about 90% of those are a mixture containing equal amounts of two enantiomers of a chiral compound. Researchers often face the ...