Limited natural resources and an increasing demand for enantiomerically pure compounds
render catalysis and especially heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis a key technology. The …

From synthetic drugs to biodegradable plastics to the origin of life, the chiral selection of
molecules presents both daunting challenges and significant opportunities in materials …

Crystalline surfaces of common rock-forming minerals are likely to have played several
important roles in life's geochemical origins. Transition metal sulfides and oxides promote a …

Chirality is a basic property of nature and has great importance in photonics, biochemistry,
medicine, and catalysis. This importance has led to the emergence of the chiral inorganic …

The generation of molecular chirality in the absence of any molecular chiral inductor is
challenging and of fundamental interest for developing a better understanding of …

Chirality is ubiquitous in biology, including in biomineralization, where it is found in many
hardened structures of invertebrate marine and terrestrial organisms (for example, spiralling …

Many biomolecules are chiral—they can exist in one of two enantiomeric forms that only
differ in that their structures are mirror images of each other. Because only one enantiomer …

Chiral surfaces are critical components of enantioselective heterogeneous processes such
as those used to prepare enantiomerically pure pharmaceuticals. While the majority of chiral …

Continental-scale rivers with a sandy bed sequester a significant proportion of their
sediment load in flood plains. The spatial extent and depths of such deposits have been …

Modification of a metal surface by a strongly adsorbed chiral organic molecule has proven to
be an interesting strategy for heterogeneous chiral catalysis. Platinum chirally modified by …