Designed proteins enable enantioselective artificial photocatalysts
Generative protein design and directed evolution produced artificial metalloenzymes that support highly enantioselective light-driven reactions with synthetic metal photocatalysts.
Tag: enantioselectivity
Tiny Peptide Catalysts Bring Enantioselective Photochemistry Under 750 Daltons
Chemists in Munich have created a four-amino-acid peptide weighing under 750 daltons that harvests visible light and catalyzes enantioselective deracemizations ...
Chemists Build a Molecular Sorting Machine to Forge Chiral Amino Alcohols from Simple Feedstocks
A palladium-catalysed nucleophile-sorting strategy enables the one-pot, enantioselective assembly of chiral 1,2-amino alcohols from unprotected amines and alcohols.
Engineered Enzymes Forge Antibiotic Scaffolds from Simple Alkenes
Scientists at Caltech and the University of Pittsburgh have engineered haemproteins to convert simple unactivated alkenes directly into chiral oxazolidinone ...
Chiral 2D Framework Turns Rhodium Catalyst Into a Recycling Champion
Researchers built a zirconium-based two-dimensional metal-organic framework carrying chiral BINAP-derived rhodium sites that achieve over 99 percent yield and enantioselectivity ...
Chemists Craft a One-Handed Molecule That Disarms a Cell-Death Protein
Chemists have developed a single-enantiomer covalent inhibitor that locks the cell-death protein BAX in its inactive state and protects tissue ...
Chiral Metal Ligand Architectures Push Asymmetric Catalysis Toward Greener Chemical Manufacturing
A comprehensive review traces how BINAP, oxazoline, BINOL, and bis(imine) ligand architectures around ruthenium, rhodium, copper, palladium, and aluminum metals ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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