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Materials Science Nov 10, 2017

Using catalysts like tweezers to select single enantiomer from a mirrored pair

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº)—A team of researchers at Harvard University has developed a catalytic technique that allows for selecting a single enantiomer (mirror-image isomers) when choosing between one of two mirrored possibilities. In ...

Materials Science Sep 28, 2017

Chemists propose new beneficial catalyst for initial materials in pharmacy

A collaboration of researchers from RUDN University (Russia), Centro de Química Estrutura (Portugal) and Baku State University (Azerbaijan) proposes a new potential method to produce initial compounds for many chemical industries, ...

Materials Science Sep 25, 2017

Streamlined process opens drug development to a new class of steroids

Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a technique to produce synthetic steroids that could pave the way for a cascade of new drug discoveries. The process, published in the journal Nature Chemistry, facilitates ...

Materials Science Jul 19, 2017

The asymmetric synthesis of halogenated compounds from carboxylic acids is world first

Toyohashi University of Technology researchers led by Associate Professor Shibatomi developed new catalytic reaction to produce chlorine-containing organic molecules in isomerically pure (left- or right-handed) form

Materials Science Jul 5, 2017

New chemical synthesis method can produce an exciting range of novel compounds

Chemists at Nagoya Institute of Technology have developed an innovative chemical reaction system, which could have applications for developing starter molecules for additional synthetic procedures in organic chemistry, as ...

Materials Science May 1, 2017

Decades-long research culminates in a new way of creating left- and right-handed molecules

An international team of researchers, led by Mark E. Davis at Caltech, has succeeded in making the first chiral molecular sieves. This discovery opens new areas of investigation in both chemistry and biology, and has broad ...

Materials Science Apr 10, 2017

Discovery of 'helical molecular glue'

Hideto Tsuji, professor in Toyohashi University of Technology, and his colleagues have made a world-first discovery of 'molecular glue' action of a counterclockwise-helical molecule to glue two structurally-different clockwise-helical ...

Materials Science Apr 7, 2017

Pinpoint creation of chirality by organic catalysts

Researchers at Nagoya University have reported in Nature Communications on the development of an organic catalyst (organocatalyst) that triggers a highly stereoselective 1,6-addition of azlactones (nucleophile) to a δ-aryl ...

Materials Science Apr 5, 2017

The transformation of an advanced synthetic intermediate into a whole family of naturally occurring molecules

A research collaboration between A*STAR and the University of Oxford has generated a simple and efficient approach for assembling organic molecules that show promise as therapeutic drugs. The team drew on a strategy favored ...

Materials Science Mar 21, 2017

New catalysts mimic human vision

Photoreceptors in vertebrates typically consist of two separate colourless parts: an organic pigment and a protein. Combined, they create a colourful, light-sensitive molecule called an iminium ion that triggers vision upon ...

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