When chemists need to separate one chiral molecule from a mixture of enantiomers—for instance, when synthesizing potential drug molecules—they often turn to high-performance liquid chromatography ...

Study suggests spin selectivity is different in enantiomers - altering their reaction rate - which 'challenges a fundamental ...

A mixture of a both enantiomers of carvone and both enantiomers of an orange ferrocene probe can be loaded into this device. Each enantiomer comes out the other end of the device as a separate ...

Many chemical compounds exist in two variants, called enantiomers. These consist of the same elements but act as mirror images of each other. In reference to our hands, which are also mirror images, ...

From 2001 to 2011, the US Food and Drug Administration approved 9 single-enantiomer drugs with racemic precursors. None showed pre-approval evidence of improved efficacy over the racemic precursor. We ...

It is an old idea with a twist, Warner says: He uses gamma rays to fuse the tails. "Normally, if you go below a certain concentration, micelles break up. If you fuse the tails, they can't break," he ...

Enantiomers, or molecule pairs that are mirror images of each other, make up more than half of FDA-approved drugs in use today, including those used in treatments for cancer, neurologic diseases and ...

Thalidomide, one of the most infamous drugs of all, caused severe birth defects in the children of pregnant women who took the drug for nausea in the 1950s. Its story has been repeated over and over – ...