Researchers at the University of St Andrews have revealed that they have found a key to unlocking an 80-year-old chemical ...

Scientists at the University of St Andrews have discovered a molecular “reshuffle”, a breakthrough that addresses a major ...

Researchers at the University of St Andrews have uncovered a long‑elusive molecular 'reshuffle', a breakthrough that tackles ...

Halogen bonds were first proposed as an activating interaction in 2008, but this alternative type of organocatalysis was ...

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

These results help fill in a critical link in the chain from molecules to organs and bodies, the researchers say. "Our findings provide new insights into how molecular chirality gives rise to cellular ...

A way to electrically modify the chirality of organic–inorganic hybrid materials, in which chiral molecules adsorb onto inorganic surfaces, has been demonstrated by researchers at Science Tokyo. By ...

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Structural chirality refers to the geometric property of objects that are not superimposable on their mirror images, a concept that is central to organic chemistry. In contrast, topological chirality ...

For the first time, scientists at ETH Zurich have utilized extremely brief, rotating bursts of light to analyze and modify electron movements in mirror-image molecules. They demonstrated that the ...