Using a trio of catalysts and some blue light, researchers have transformed a racemic mixture of mirror-image molecules into a single enantiomer of the same compound (ChemRxiv 2019, DOI ...

A new study suggests an alternative to this approach. The authors report that magnetic fields could separate enantiomers in a racemic mixture (Science 2018, DOI: 10.1126/science.aar4265).

In the non-living universe, enantiomers of chiral molecules are expected to occur in equal parts, called racemic mixtures. Chiral molecules that have been detected in interstellar dust and gas ...

Historically, many stable, single enantiomer drugs have demonstrated improved therapeutic properties such as improved efficacy or reduced side effects over the parent racemic mixture. However ...

One postulates that life originated from a mixture containing 50% of one enantiomer and 50% of the other (known as a racemic mixture), and that homochirality progressively emerged during the ...