This week's cover story on chiral chemistry—which consists, in fact, of three related stories—is a feast of chemistry. Senior Correspondent Ann Thayer examines three aspects of developing applications ...

The recognition of chirality in bioactive molecules is as old as modern organic chemistry itself. Pioneering work by Jean-Baptiste Biot, Louis Pasteur, Emil Fischer, and J. vant Hoff established ...

A way to electrically modify the chirality of organic–inorganic hybrid materials, in which chiral molecules adsorb onto ...

Researchers have designed and built a new chemical tool inspired by natural metal-containing enzymes in living organisms. The product, a tetrahedral "chiral zinc", maintains its shape for years, ...

The synthesized double-helical monometallofoldamers exhibiting controllable chirality switching can lead to the development of novel artificial supramolecular systems for molecular information ...

New research has pointed out that chiral metal surfaces can help in manufacturing pharmaceuticals. These 'intrinsically chiral' metal surfaces offer potential new ways to control chiral chemistry, ...