Chirality: like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules can have the same composition, but a different shape and arrangement in space. And this difference can change everything. Understanding and ...

This new way of organizing molecular space opens up a whole new degree of freedom and imagination in chemical synthesis. Within a molecule, chirality often arises from the presence of one or more ...

In molecular biology, chirality refers to the property of molecules existing in two mirror-image forms. Much like human hands, these mirror-image molecules cannot be superimposed onto each other.

By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered ...

A geometric property inherent to certain molecules, chirality can dictate a molecule’s shape, chemical reactivity, and how it interacts with other matter.

Can you imagine a life-saving molecule whose “twin” is a deadly poison? As surprising as it may seem, this chemical reality is known as “chirality”. Like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules ...

Its applications span from elucidating the intricacies of protein folding and pharmaceutical polymorphism, to the design of novel chiral materials through the study of intermolecular interactions ...

Chirality, the property of asymmetry wherein structures exist as non-superimposable mirror images, plays a central role in supramolecular chemistry. The self‐assembly of molecules into larger ...

CD in in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Circular Dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is a technique used to measure the differential absorption of left- and right-handed circularly polarized ...