Evans tells C&EN that he thinks the reaction will be particularly useful to medicinal chemists who need to incorporate an ...

A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign research team has discovered a way to produce a special class of molecule that could open the door for new drugs to treat currently untreatable diseases.

Asymmetric synthesis is a method for preparation of chemical compounds which aims to bias the synthesis in favour of producing one stereoisomer over another stereoisomer. Stereoisomers are molecules ...