Abstract: Understanding stereochemistry is of critical importance for students aiming to be future chemists, molecular biologists, pharmacists, pharmacologists or physicians. Stereochemistry focuses ...

A team at ETH Zurich developed a new peptide-based organocatalyst that handles macrocycle formation from start to finish. Macrocyclic compounds are ubiquitous both in nature and in the chemical ...

For decades, chemists have viewed the [1,2]-Wittig rearrangement as a stubborn rule-breaker – a powerful carbon–carbon bond-forming reaction believed to proceed through unruly radical pairs and ...

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A team from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Hokkaido University, and Osaka University has discovered that subtle differences in molecular structure can have a major impact on the ...

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Newly discovered enzymes that are vital for bacterial defenses can also help chemists characterize the stereochemistry in natural products. The enzymes cut proteins between unusual amino acids, ...

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