Many drugs have mirror chemical structures, one helpful and the other harmful – a Nobel‑winning discovery allows chemists to make either on demand

From thalidomide to resveratrol, molecules with the exact same chemical properties can have drastically different effects in ...

Could a Small Bias Lead to Life? Thinking About the Origin of Life from Enantiomers, Asymmetric Organic Synthesis, Nonlinear Effects, and Autocatalysis

Could a small bias lead to life? Thinking about the origin of life from enantiomers, asymmetric organic synthesis, nonlinear ...

Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand

Life is remarkably selective. Life relies on many molecules with what is termed “handedness”—they’re chemically identical but are mirror images of each other. Most chemical reactions will make a 50/50 ...

Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and ...
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Nobel Prize honors researchers who showed how ‘handedness’ can emerge in chemistry

Henri Kagan of the Université Paris-Sud and Kenso Soai of Tokyo University of Science share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...
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AIMNet2-rxn: A machine-learned potential for generalized reaction modeling on a millions-of-pathways scale

Mechanistic modeling of chemical transformations offers a compelling basis for understanding reactivity and allows for ...

For those who struggle with chemical equilibrium calculations: How to set up equilibrium constants and tips for calculation explained with examples

I am Yamamoto, and I teach university entrance exam chemistry at Galileo.Chemical equilibrium is a unit that many people find ...
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JWST uncovers a surprisingly cold atmosphere on the giant planet HATS-6 b

JWST observations of HATS-6 b revealed strong evidence for water, methane and ammonia, with weaker evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of the unusual giant planet. Atmospheric models ...
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Simple organic catalyst walks phosphate groups along sugar backbones

Reacting a phosphate attached to glycerol with a carbodiimide catalyses the formation of a five-membered ring. Hydrolysis ...