Nature produces single enantiomers and diastereomers of complex organic molecules with relative ease compared with the synthetic chemist. The question arises, however, as to whether two species ...

Approximately half of the thousands of drugs known have chiral structures, many of which show dramatic differences in the properties of the stereoisomers (enantiomers) and thus an increasing ...

Unlike enantiomers, diastereomers have different physical properties and often can be readily separated from one another via crystallization. While there are well-established, inexpensive basic (e.g., ...