Could life on Earth have taken a completely different form, based on the “handedness” of its chemical? A new study by ...

Recent findings indicate that the chirality of molecules, critical to life's structure, might not have been as fixed in early ...

Key takeawaysA recent paper in Nature Communications from researchers at UCLA and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, offers new insight into the ...

State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational ...

Welcome to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at WKU. Chemistry is often referred to as the “central science” because it helps connect the physical sciences and life sciences. We offer ...

He thinks the ‘really unusual stereocontrol element will be useful in a wide range of applications’, in particular in medicinal chemistry, ‘where the ability to extend groups into specific ...

The study, led by Prof. Michal Kohout from the Department of Organic Chemistry, provides critical insights into the structural characterization and chiral separation of novel psychoactive ...

China The Research Center of Chiral Drugs, Innovation Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China Shanghai Institute ...

A UCLA study challenges a 100-year-old chemistry rule, showing anti-Bredt olefins can be created, sparking fresh approaches to pharmaceutical synthesis. Credit: SciTechDaily.com UCLA chemists have ...

A team of Japanese researchers has discovered a new technique to tweak molecular orientation that could dramatically improve energy transfer when absorbing light. While in its infancy, this ...