$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 ...

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.

Indivior is developing arbaclofen placarbil, a novel transported prodrug of ( R)-baclofen, the more active of the two baclofen enantiomers, for the treatment of alcohol use disorder. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

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