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

A team of chemists at the University of Cambridge has developed a metal-free way to convert symmetrical diols selectively ...

Japanese researchers have developed a novel method for manipulating molecular orientation that could boost energy transfer in ...

A University of Texas at Dallas chemist and his colleagues have developed a new chemical reaction that will allow researchers to synthesize selectively the left-handed or right-handed versions of “mir ...

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 ...

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

Self-assembly is the process by which an organized structure spontaneously forms from individual components, as a result of specific, local interactions among the components. When the constitutive ...

Organometallic chemistry is the study of the synthesis, structure and reactivity of chemical compounds that contain metal-carbon bonds. These compounds are often used as homogeneous catalysts ...