(Right) A display of the two compounds as mirror images. (If you have any ADHD meds on hand, you might want to take them now because we're going to discuss enantiomers, a topic that has sent countless ...

All biological amino acids on Earth appear exclusively in their left-handed form, but the reason underlying this observation is elusive. Recently, scientists uncovered new clues about the cosmic ...

Recognizing and separating enantiomers is a difficult task for chemical engineers — one might say it gives them a bit of a headache. Enantiomers are molecules with virtually identical compositions ...

Experiment is an important step towards isolating right- and lefthanded molecules from each other. (Nanowerk News) A team of DESY researchers, led by DESY lead scientist and University of Kiel ...

"Supporting electrolytes are salts added to experiments just to make sure the solution is conducting," Lin said. "They do not usually play explicit roles in the reaction. But in this work, we use ...

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 ...