Imagine a world where life doesn’t rely on the same DNA and proteins as all living organisms on Earth. Instead, it’s a ...

A new, two-step strategy for making substituted piperidines offers chemists a more efficient way to make these biologically ...

The hunt for life on Mars is driven by more than curiosity – it seeks to understand humanity's place in the universe.

Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International ...

Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Chiral Drugs, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ...

The molecules responsible for optical activity are chiral, meaning that they cannot be superimposed on their mirror images — of which the human hand is a paradigm example. For this reason ...

While I was doing my PhD in organic chemistry looking for new fungicides, I started collaborating on several projects in science communication. I organised Pint of Science festivals in pubs, ...

Jan. 2, 2025 — A research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a ...

Among the concerns raised was the risk that mirror bacteria would evade many immune mechanisms mediated by chiral molecules, potentially causing lethal infection in humans, animals and plants. ‘They ...

Pyrrolidines, pyrrolidine-alkaloids, and pyrrolidine-based hybrid molecules are present in many natural products and pharmacologically important agents. Their key roles in pharmacotherapy make them a ...