The importance of an often overlooked source of chirality, atropisomerism, depends upon the barriers to rotation
Finding Hidden Chirality
Improvement of COX-1 Inhibitors
Novel cyclooxygenase-1 inhibitors show promise as analgesics, with none of the previous side effects
Treating Resistant Infections with Silver
Silver N-heterocyclic carbenes are promising candidates for new topical antibacterial drugs due to high activity against resistant S. aureus
Intelligent Metal-Storage Nanocapsules
New metal-storage nanocapsules created from self-assembly of dendrimers with soft aliphatic units
Vanadium Complexes of Reduced Schiff Bases
Reduced Schiff base ligands less susceptible to hydrolysis and form more stable V complexes than corresponding Schiff bases
Gold and DNA Join Forces to Detect Mercury
Ultrasensitive mercury detection made possible with gold nanowire-on-film surface-enhanced Raman sensor
Solar Cells: Enhanced Power Conversion
Multiple energy relay dyes incorporated into dye-sensitized solar cells enhance solar-to-electric power conversion by 35 %
Cucurbituril Nanovalves for Controlled Release
Guest molecules can be released on demand with enzyme-inspired nanovalves for sensing probes or drug delivery
New Family of Layered Double Phosphates
BaTh(PO4)2 and BaNp(PO4)2 appear as the prototypes of a new family of double phosphates
Oligomannosides and the HIV Antibody
NMR study of interactions between oligomannosides and HIV-1 antibody in solution could have impact on vaccine design