The recognition of chiral enantiomers has great significance in biomedical fields such as drug detection, as they exhibit distinctive absorption characteristics in the terahertz (THz) region. However, ...

We quantified the enantiomeric distributions of δ- and γ-lactones in butter, fermented butter, and margarine through the combination of solvent extraction and enantioselective gas chromatography–mass ...

A single atom swap in the core structure of morphine has created an analogue with the opioid’s signature painkilling activity but without the problematic side effects. The O-to-CH 2 exchange removed a ...

Tiny sugars from marine microbes help clouds freeze over the Southern Ocean, offering new insight into cloud brightness and climate models.

Paclobutrazol, a triazole chiral plant growth regulator, has been widely applied as a racemic mixture in crop and fruit tree production. However, the enantioselective fate and effects of chiral ...

Chiral molecules exist in pairs of left- and right-handed enantiomers, two non-superimposable "mirror twins". They have identical properties, unless interacting with another chiral object. Light has ...