Chemists in Shenzhen have developed a nickel-catalysed reaction that converts simple enamines and alkynes into ...

The 2026 chemistry Nobel announcement sparked a frenzy of chirality fact-checking. Turns out, nailing stereochemistry is ...

Candidates preparing for IIT JAM Chemistry 2027 can use the previous three years' question papers to identify important topics and understand how the examination tests conceptual knowledge. A review ...

Our bodies are made of countless molecules. We breathe. We eat. Our hearts beat. We fall in love with someone. All of these ...

Introduction and Historical Background1.1 The Mystery of Biological Homochirality and Pasteur's Problem FormulationIn the ...

Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for untangling mysterious mirror images in ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to French chemist Henri B. Kagan and Japanese chemist Kensō Soai for their ...

Isotopic chirality arising from hydrogen/deuterium substitution has long resisted optical resolution because isotopic ...

Researchers have discovered that mechanical strain also induces chirality in non-chiral crystals, opening a new direction to control this property on demand and potentially imprint chiral electronic ...

Mirror-image peptides and proteins are attracting interest as therapeutics, as key building blocks for constructing mirror-image life, and as tools to probe the origin of life. Their resistance to ...

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of chiral organogermanes. The scheme shows different chirality types: carbon stereogenic centers (α, β, γ), a germanium‑stereogenic center, axial chirality, planar ...