“Mirror bacteria” could evade people’s immune systems, they suggest, causing deadly infections. Such infections could also lead to a substantial proportion of plant and animal species being displaced, ...

Chiral molecules are molecules that can appear in different configurations that are mirror images of each other – the configurations are referred to as left-handed and right-handed enantiomers. In all ...

Chiral molecules that are mirror images of each other are called enantiomers. A good example is the compound thalidomide. It was sold as a sedative for four years in the late 1950s before being ...

The same thing occurs with certain molecules: the organization of the atoms does not coincide. Each of the mirror images of a molecule that is not superimposable is called an enantiomer.

Understanding the nature of chiral molecules is crucial to biological and pharmaceutical research because the mirror image ...

Areas of expertise Asymmetric Synthetic Methods We look at novel ways to prepare single enantiomers. Although the compounds themselves may be useful ... of some symmetry elements has been thorough and ...