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

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.

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 ...

$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 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 ...