Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new superconductor with a chiral crystalline structure by mixing two materials, one with superconductivity but no chirality ...

Axial chirality arises when restricted rotation about a molecular axis generates enantiomeric conformers known as atropisomers. Such stereochemical motifs are ubiquitous in biaryls, heterobiaryls and ...

The synthesis of chiral molecules by biocatalysis harnesses the exquisite stereo- and regioselectivity of enzymes to prepare enantiomerically pure compounds under mild, environmentally benign ...

Like carbon and silicon, germanium’s lighter brethren on the periodic table, the metalloid can bond to four different groups, forming a chiral, tetrahedral molecule. Researchers at Nankai University ...

New molecular design unlocks high photoluminescence efficiency and improved stability, with potential applications in lasers, ...

Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have conceived a strategy using chiral nickel catalysts to facilitate the carboboration of alkenes, generating high-value enantioenriched ...

Circularly polarized light has properties that make it useful in a growing range of technologies, from next-generation 3D ...

C-H activation-based method should speed drug molecule design and diversification. Scripps Research chemists have accomplished a long elusive feat in synthetic chemistry: the invention of a broadly ...

Chirality, or "handedness," is a fundamental property of objects, from galaxies to molecules, and plays a crucial role in biological systems. However, chiral compounds in living organisms such as ...

In a surprising twist, researchers have identified crystals that are symmetrical but nevertheless absorb light as if they were chiral (Science 2025, DOI: 10.1126/science.adr5478). The discovery ...

Study suggests spin selectivity is different in enantiomers - altering their reaction rate - which 'challenges a fundamental ...

Circularly polarized light has properties that make it useful in a growing range of technologies, from next-generation 3D displays to ...