More than half of all modern medicines are chiral. Since biomolecules such as amino acids, sugars and proteins in our body all have the same handedness, active pharmaceutical ingredients must also ...

Although synthetic biology labs have toyed with the possibility of building mirror bacteria, scientists have opted to ditch ...

Many biopolymers such as DNA form helices, which are inherently chiral structures, while compounds such as amino acids form complex 3D shapes that also can have left and right forms. Researchers now ...

For example, Dieter Enders and Wolfgang Bettray nicely detail the applications of Enders' chiral auxiliary (S)-1-amino-2-methoxymethylpyrrolidine (SAMP) to the chemical syntheses of several chiral ...

In peptides, which are smaller fragments of proteins, their helical shape arises from the repetition of specific blocks known ...

More than half of all modern medicines are chiral. Since biomolecules such as amino acids, sugars and proteins in our body all have the same handedness, active pharmaceutical ingredients must also ...

This property is particularly important in the pharmaceutical industry. More than half of all modern medicines are chiral. Since biomolecules such as amino acids, sugars and proteins in our body all ...