In chemistry, breaking a mirror isn’t always a harbinger of bad luck. Using a trio of catalysts and some blue light, researchers have transformed a racemic mixture of mirror-image molecules into a ...

ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DeuteRx, LLC, is a research and development-focused biotechnology company dedicated to improving racemic small molecule marketed drugs and drug candidates intended for ...

The latest short science news items from C&EN. In order for the catalyst to be stereoselective, its ligand has to be able to distinguish between the different alkyl substituents. Fu’s hunch about how ...

THE separation of racemic mixtures of optical isomers is still limited, with rare exceptions, to the methods of Pasteur. For this reason the resolution of substances which seem identical in the ...

Acute bronchiolitis in infants frequently results in hospitalization, but there is no established consensus on inhalation therapy — either the type of medication or the frequency of administration — ...

This module has been designed to introduce second-year organic chemistry students to the concepts of stereochemistry through the lens of the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential ...

From 2001 to 2011, the US Food and Drug Administration approved 9 single-enantiomer drugs with racemic precursors. None showed pre-approval evidence of improved ...

On April 16, 2018 in a precedential opinion, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma v. Emcure Pharms., Nos. 2017-1798, -1799, -1800, affirmed the United ...

New biocatalytic and chemocatalytic routes to chiral intermediates and developments in simulated-moving-bed and supercritical-fluid chromatography for resolving racemic mixtures. The prevalence of ...