$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.

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

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.

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 ...

Just as left and right hands cannot be perfectly aligned through any combination of translations and rotations, these mirror-image forms, known as enantiomers, are identical in composition but ...

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 ...

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

The strength of a coupling between nuclear spins depends on chirality, or handedness, of the molecule, according to a new ...