Natural products derived from plants, fungi, and even microbes have been fruitful sources of drugs. Now research shows that their chemical mirror images may be an underexplored source of potential ...

There is an increasing awareness of the benefits stemming from enantiomer-specific analysis of mixtures of volatile organics (VOCs). These advantages have long been apparent in the analysis of food ...

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From 2001 to 2011, the US Food and Drug Administration approved 9 single-enantiomer drugs with racemic precursors. None showed pre-approval evidence of improved efficacy over the racemic precursor. We ...

A C&EN article describes efforts to create artificial saliva to treat xerostomia, which radiation treatment for head and neck cancers can cause (Dec. 11/18, 2023, page 17). Cancer.net estimates nearly ...

New biocatalytic and chemocatalytic routes to chiral intermediates and developments in simulated-moving-bed and supercritical-fluid chromatography for resolving racemic mixtures. The prevalence of ...

Single-enantiomer drugs account for nearly 40% of the global pharmaceutical market. The author analyzes the current market for single-enantiomer drugs, their role as a generic drug defense strategy, ...