In scenarios where two mirror-image molecules are possible, special catalysts are required to produce only the desired one. A research team is using salts that control the desired reaction via halogen ...

Nitrogen finally joins the elite tier of elements like carbon that can form neutral allotropes—different structural forms of a single chemical element. Researchers from Justus Liebig University, ...

There are certain molecules that exist twice, so to speak: as themselves and as their mirror image. “These so-called chiral molecules demonstrate a handedness of sorts,” explains Stefan Huber. Despite ...