Chirality is a geometric property of some molecules and ions, and a chiral molecule/ion is non-superposable on its mirror image, just like our right and left hands. A number of chiral molecules can be ...

A new technique has been invented for constructing chiral drug molecules, report scientists. Chiral molecules are those whose structural complexity allows them to have mirror-image, "left-handed" and ...

A new study reports the first detection of chiral molecules in space, paving the way to understanding why chirality is “biased” on Earth. Our planet is home to a puzzle involving chiral molecules, ...

Chiral molecules occur very frequently in nature. Sugar, for example, consists of chiral molecules, as do many amino acids; our bodies are also made up of these building blocks. Chirality means that ...

In some medicines, such as the pain reliever ibuprofen, one side of a chiral molecule is active and effective while the other (called its enantiomer) is present but benign, Lin said. In many other ...