The study of chiral conversion and peptidization in amino acids is of profound importance in understanding the molecular mechanisms that underpin biological functions. Chirality, the property of a ...

Chiral analysis of amino acids has gained considerable prominence as researchers strive to understand the subtle roles that enantiomers play in biological systems. The ability to distinguish between ...

Doubly stapled α-helix consisting only of achiral amino acids. Its one-handed form can be isolated because the interconversion between the right- and left-handed forms is almost completely suppressed.

A research team led by Prof ZHANG Guoqing from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) presented a novel molecular-solid sensor that enables ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we cover why your body feels so ‘off’ at high altitudes and how we’ve evolved not to detect low oxygen levels but high amounts of carbon dioxide. Then we ...

A chemical reaction that demonstrates how key molecules in the biological world might have come to be predominately left or right handed has been reported by scientists at Imperial College London.

Biomolecules such as amino acids and sugars occur in two mirror-image forms -- in all living organisms, however, only one is ever found. Why this is the case is still unclear. Researchers have now ...

A team at ETH Zurich developed a new peptide-based organocatalyst that handles macrocycle formation from start to finish.

Chirality is a fundamental property of matter that determines many biological, chemical and physical phenomena. Chiral solids, for example, offer exciting opportunities for catalysis, sensing and ...