Chirality in nanoscience may offer new opportunities for applications beyond the traditional
fields of chirality, such as the asymmetric catalysts in the molecular world and the chiral …

Infrared absorption spectroscopy has proven to be one of the most powerful spectroscopic
techniques available for the characterization of catalytic systems. Although the history of IR …

Understanding chirality, or handedness, in molecules is important because of the
enantioselectivity that is observed in many biochemical reactions 1, and because of the …

The remarkable development in homogeneous enantioselective catalysis reflected by the
Nobel prizes in 2001 awarded to Sharpless, Noyori, and Knowles has further spurred the …

The design of networks of organic molecules at metal surfaces, highly attractive for a variety
of applications ranging from molecular electronics to gas sensors to protective coatings, has …

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 …

In the present review we survey the main advances made in recent years on the
understanding of chemical chirality at solid surfaces. Chirality is an important topic, made …

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

Chiral phenomena are ubiquitous in nature from macroscopic to microscopic, including the
high chirality preference of small biomolecules, special steric conformations of …

We have prepared gold nanoparticles covered with N-isobutyryl-l-cysteine and N-isobutyryl-
d-cysteine, respectively. These particles with a mean particle size smaller than 2 nm are …