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Chemistry World May 15, 2012 Harriet Brewerton	Chiral Confusion Scientists in Israel have shown that non-biological chiral crystals are much more abundant than previously thought and their findings could clear up a possible confusion over the term 'chiral'.
Chemistry World November 1, 2009 Hayley Birch	How light gave life a helping hand A new theory for how 'handedness' in organic molecules evolved has been proposed by Dutch scientists.
Chemistry World June 5, 2012 Simon Perks	Chiral separation with micro-flows How do you separate enantiomers without any kind of chiral recognition between molecules? The answer it seems is to use asymmetric flow in a micro-fluidic channel.
Chemistry World June 18, 2014 Michael Parkin	Separation by levitation A team in the US has shown that enantiopure and racemic crystals can be separated by magnetic levitation.
Chemistry World August 7, 2011 Phillip Broadwith	Possible Origin of Chirality in the Rna World Given a tiny push one way or the other, simple racemic precursors can lead to the chiral building blocks of RNA using a combination of chemical and physical factors.
Chemistry World September 25, 2014 Hayley Simon	Breakup reaction hints at handedness of nature The breakup of 3-bromocamphor molecules bombarded by polarized electrons has given a tantalizing hint of the origins of biological homochirality -- nature's preference for one mirror image of a molecule over another.
Chemistry World July 24, 2009 Nina Notman	Chiral isotropic liquids from achiral molecules Boomerang-shaped liquid crystal phase molecules that don't exhibit 'handedness' (chirality) have been found to form unusual chiral structures that spontaneously separate into left- and right-handed domains.
Chemistry World October 14, 2009 James Urquhart	New route to amino acids US scientists have found a new way of making a class of non-natural amino acids that are widely used as components of pharmaceuticals and chiral catalysts.
Reactive Reports May 2007 David Bradley	Meeting of Molecular Movie Stars New footage confirms Linus Pauling's theory of chemical bonding proposed half a century ago, and could help explain molecular recognition processes important throughout supramolecular chemistry and molecular biology.
Chemistry World September 6, 2013 Melissae Fellet	Unravelling stereochemistry via mass spectrometry Researchers have used mass spectrometry to determine the stereochemistry of a prototypical chiral molecule, CHBrClF.
Chemistry World April 8, 2008 Mark Peplow	Meteorite Source for Life's Handedness Scientists have long speculated that life's preference for left-handed amino acids may have been triggered by compounds brought to Earth by meteorites. Now they've shown exactly how two crucial steps in this process could happen.
Chemistry World March 5, 2014 Andy Extance	Rotaxanes make symmetry history A UK team has stumbled upon an efficient way to separately produce each member of an unusual mirror image pair of chemical systems that has eluded scientists for over four decades.
Chemistry World April 19, 2009 Hayley Birch	Chiral metals shape up for catalysis Dutch and Israeli scientists have found a way to induce the chirality usually only found in organic materials in palladium.
Chemistry World June 17, 2013 Eleanor Merritt	Switching chirality in amino acids An international team of scientists has developed a purely chemical approach to interconvert L- and D-amino acids. This method could rival enzymatic routes used in industry, and enable cheaper production of some pharmaceuticals.
Reactive Reports Issue 33 David Bradley	Two-faced Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to treat dyslexia.
Chemistry World May 26, 2015 Victoria Richards	Crystalline sponge method strikes again Scientists from Japan report that their revolutionary crystallographic technique has determined the stereochemistries of molecules with axial and planar chiralities, where classical methods had failed.
Chemistry World May 24, 2013 David Bradley	Microwaves show their hand The chirality of a gas phase molecule held in an electric field can be revealed using microwave spectroscopy. Hooking the technique to a separation step might even be exploited to isolate a specific enantiomer from a racemic mixture of both forms.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Harris & Harris Looks to Separate New technology could lead to safer, more effective drugs. Because of proprietary reasons, it's unlikely that ENS will be able to publicly announce when Big Pharma companies have licensed its technology, but Harris & Harris investors have reason to be optimistic.
Chemistry World February 21, 2007 Tom Westgate	Complex Organic Molecules Teamed with Iodine Chemists have developed a method for constructing complex halogen-containing organic molecules from simple compounds in a single step. The discovery could pave the way for the synthesis of many potentially useful naturally occurring molecules.
Chemistry World December 17, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Single catalyst gives two products from racemic mixture Chemists in the US have demonstrated a remarkable reaction in which a single catalyst can transform a racemic mixture - molecules identical in every way except for their chirality - into two distinct enantiomerically pure products.
Chemistry World October 18, 2011 Steve Down	Cofactor Control of Catalysis Enantioselectivity Scientists have used cofactors to control the enantioselectivity of supramolecular transition metal catalysts, enabling the asymmetric hydrogenation of a series of acrylates and related compounds with remarkably high selectivities.
Chemistry World June 13, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Asymmetric ketone catalysis gets pharma-scale makeover An asymmetric catalysis reaction limited to laboratory syntheses has received a makeover that could see it used on a large scale by drug-makers.
Chemistry World July 16, 2013 Harriet Brewerton	Accelerating stereochemical analysis A chemosensor has been developed by scientists in the US to speed up the quantitative stereochemical analysis of chiral amino alcohols and diamines.
Chemistry World July 26, 2007 Tom Westgate	Counterion Does the Twist US chemists have achieved a breakthrough in the design of catalysts that selectively produce chiral compounds.
Chemistry World April 29, 2009 James Urquhart	Huge pores in zeolite molecular sieve Researchers in Spain and Sweden have synthesized and structurally determined a new kind of crystalline molecular sieve with extra large holes and chiral properties.
Chemistry World May 26, 2011 Mike Brown	Ibuprofen: anticancer drug Scientists in the UK have moved a step closer to understanding how ibuprofen could help treat cancer.
Chemistry World November 6, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Enzyme binds both sides of the mirror European chemists have discovered that both mirror-image forms of a particular compound can bind at the same time in the same site of an enzyme, a phenomenon that has never been seen before.
Chemistry World April 2008 Dylan Stiles	Column: Bench Monkey Powerful recrystallisation voodoo.
Reactive Reports Issue 33 David Bradley	Catalytic Gel Gels are commonplace from lime Jell-o to invigorating minty shower gels. Now, a German-Dutch team has developed an organometallic complex that acts as a novel gelling agent for organic solvents.
Chemistry World March 23, 2009 Hayley Birch	Speeding up screening for chiral catalysts U.S. researchers say their method represents a 'standard workhorse' for discovery and optimisation of chiral catalysts, such as those widely used by the pharmaceutical and pesticide industries.
Chemistry World September 17, 2008 Hayley Birch	Colloids twist like DNA French scientists have used magnetic colloids to make self-assembling, helical structures reminiscent of DNA
Chemistry World May 15, 2014 Jenifer Mizen	Freeze-dried cells make better biocatalysts A biocatalytic cascade using mashed-up cells has overcome extraction and solubility problems associated with using enzymes in chemical syntheses.
Chemistry World February 18, 2010 Hayley Birch	First sugars needed silicates to survive Earth's first complex sugars could have formed with a little help from silicate ions, according to a new study by US chemists.
Chemistry World September 6, 2006 Michael Gross	Selective Shortcut Chemists have developed a simple catalyst that speeds up the synthesis of a chiral protected building block used in many complex syntheses.
Chemistry World May 4, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Nanomachinery gets a spring in its step Molecular springs that always twist the same way are the latest addition to the nanomachinery toolbox.
Chemistry World February 21, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Esters Made Easy with Indium Indium is the basis of a novel catalyst designed to make useful cyclic esters. This catalyst could greatly simplify the production of chiral dihydropyranones, important structural elements in many natural products and pharmaceuticals.
Chemistry World March 28, 2007 Victoria Gill	New Limits Set on Chirality Researchers have set a new standard in stereochemistry. Measuring Raman optical activity, they have confirmed the spatial arrangement of a molecule with almost impossibly subtle chirality: (R)-[ 2H 1, 2H 2, 2H 3]-neopentane.
Chemistry World September 20, 2007 Lewis Brindley	New Catalyst Rings the Changes Organic chemists in the US have developed a method to control the stereochemistry of a useful intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction.
Chemistry World May 3, 2013 Alison Rodger	VCD spectroscopy for organic chemists I highly recommend VCD Spectroscopy, by Philip Stephens and others, for organic chemists as the textbook of choice on this useful topic.
Chemistry World December 10, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Alcohol enantiomer conundrum cracked UK chemists have discovered a straightforward new way to make chiral tertiary alcohols that gives selective access to either enantiomer.
Chemistry World February 13, 2013 James Mitchell Crow	Tapping proton power for enantioselective synthesis A simple proton is the key to a novel approach by US-based chemists to synthesize chiral amines and alcohols -- a structural motif common to many organic molecules with pharmaceutical promise.
Chemistry World September 2, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Shining a light on DNA-binding drugs in living cells German researchers have used standard circular dichroism spectroscopy to probe interactions between drug molecules and DNA within living cells.