Chirality: like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules can have the same composition, but a different shape and ...

Chemists at the University of Geneva and University of Pisa have crafted a novel family of chiral molecules whose ...

By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered ...

Most are C–H activation reactions, which remove a hydrogen atom from one of the carbon atoms of the molecular backbone and replace it with a more complex cluster of atoms called a functional group.

Sep 18, 2019: Tensile strength of carbon nanotubes depends on their chiral structures (Nanowerk News) Single-walled carbon nanotubes should theoretically be extremely strong, but it remains unclear ...

Chemists design new molecule, with oxygen as the star of the show New design rules for capturing a stable, chiral oxygen atom Date: March 30, 2023 ...

Chiral molecules with carbon as their centerpiece have been widely explored, ... it will be exciting to explore the properties of chiral oxygen atom-containing compounds in future studies. ...

Insights into the catalyst structure-function relationship of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can provide an outlook to their growth mechanisms. In a new report now published in Science ...

Chemists from the University of Groningen have found a simple way to produce previously inaccessible chiral Z-alkenes, molecules that offer a significant synthetic short-cut for the production of ...