Making carbon–carbon bonds is hard. Linking racemic mixtures of two alkyls while simultaneously controlling the stereochemistry of both ends of the product is nigh on impossible. Now Gregory Fu, ...

Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the racemic metasurface. (a) Arbitrary polarization-wavefront conversion. (b) Racemic "super-units". Chirality is one of the fundamental phenomena widely present in ...

The racemic compound (R, S)-(±)-ibuprofen is a popular and well understood active pharmaceutical ingredient, but it has several disadvantageous formulation properties such as poor solubility, low ...

A single catalyst that transforms a racemic mixture of aziridines into a pair of regioisomeric products has been developed by chemists at Ohio State Universtity. The reaction converts all the starting ...

THE difficulties found by several investigators 1 in attempting to separate a racemic compound into its optical antipodes by means of chromatography on paper are well known. We have attempted to ...

A team in the US has shown that enantiopure and racemic crystals can be separated by magnetic levitation. The isolation of pure enantiomers is of particular importance in the pharmaceutical industry, ...

SINCE the introduction of Tswett's technique of chromatographic adsorption, this process has been applied successfully to the separation of many isomeric or closely related substances, including the ...