Chiral 2D metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are among the most promising materials for future technologies that exploit the ...

Chemists and chemical engineers at California Institute of Technology, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh, have developed a new light-activated catalyst that can be ...

A new cross-coupling reaction weds chiral carboxylic acids, such as proline derivatives, to alkyl iodides while preserving ...

Asymmetric synthesis based on a metallate shift of tetracoordinate borons is an intriguing and challenging topic. Despite the construction of central chirality from tetracoordinate boron species via a ...

A Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) research team has developed a catalytic enantioselective type II [5 + 2] cycloaddition method to address the challenges of synthesizing chiral ...

The synthesis of chiral α-azaheteroaryl oxiranes via enantioselective catalysis is a formidable challenge due to the required complex stereoselectivity and diverse N-heterocyclic structures. These ...

Like carbon and silicon, germanium’s lighter brethren on the periodic table, the metalloid can bond to four different groups, forming a chiral, tetrahedral molecule. Researchers at Nankai University ...

C-H activation-based method should speed drug molecule design and diversification. Scripps Research chemists have accomplished a long elusive feat in synthetic chemistry: the invention of a broadly ...

A research team from Tohoku University, led by Associate Professor Toshiaki Kato of the Advanced Institute for Materials Research, has successfully synthesized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with a chiral ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of asymmetry in nature, where an object or molecule cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. In the context of nanotechnology, chirality refers to the ...

After the success of their Suzuki study, the scientists theorised that PEGylated bipyridine could accelerate other ...