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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...