Enantiomers - 3 News from the science department by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY for the chemistry industry

Enantiomers - 3 News from the science department by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY for the chemistry industry

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Scientists decipher the contribution of electrons to molecular chirality

The chiral currents generated in the experiment open up important perspectives for photochemical control

27-May-2024 - A new experimental approach provides the long-awaited tools to understand the role of electrons in the molecular chiral reactivity and offers a way to control physical and chemical properties that result from chiral interactions. The study, published in the journal “Nature”, was led by ...

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New Scientific Finding: Light Can Be Used to Control Molecular Handedness

This new process could be particularly useful in chemically synthesizing compounds

15-Dec-2022 - In a recent study, researchers at Freie Universität Berlin, the DESY research center in Hamburg, Kiel University, and Kansas State University have shown how light can turn a planar molecule into a chiral molecule with just one particular handedness, providing a solution to the long-standing ...

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Using corkscrew lasers to separate mirror molecules

Innovative approach could deepen insight into the mysterious handedness of life

13-Dec-2019 - Many of the molecular building blocks of life have two versions that are mirror images of one another, known as enantiomers. Although seemingly identical, the two enantiomers can have completely different chemical behaviour – a fact that has major implications in our day-to-day lives. For ...

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