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 ...

Likewise, amphetamine can exist in two mirror-image forms called enantiomers, which exist in a 50-50 mixture called a racemate aka a racemic mixture. (For a detailed discussion of enantiomers, see ...

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 ...

In fact, the majority of new molecules with active pharmacology being sold in this century are enantiomers and not the achiral or racemic mixtures so common throughout the waning years of the last.

10 Omeprazole is a racemic mixture of R-omeprazole and S-omeprazole, while esomeprazole, as its name implies, is isolated S-omeprazole. The S-omeprazole enantiomer was responsible for the drug’s ...