In chemistry, breaking a mirror isn’t always a harbinger of bad luck. Using a trio of catalysts and some blue light, researchers have transformed a racemic mixture of mirror-image molecules into a ...

Pharmaceutical process chemists use resolutions, or the separation of enantiomers from racemic mixtures, more than 60% of the time to generate chiral compounds. Among resolution methods, ...

A racemic mixture of tartaric acid forms mirror-image domains with equal propensity when adsorbed on a copper surface. When one enantiomer is present in a slight excess, however, only ordered domains ...

Paper presented on July 10, 1952. See, for example, the exhaustive review by Bltchie, P. D., “Advances in Enzymol.”, 7, 65 (1947). Henderson, G. M., and Rule, H ...