Enantiomeric Excesses of Aminonitrile Precursors Determine the Homochirality of Amino Acids. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023; 14 (13): 3243 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03862 ...

Chiral analysis of amino acids has gained considerable prominence as researchers strive to understand the subtle roles that enantiomers play in biological systems. The ability to distinguish ...

Doubly stapled α-helix consisting only of achiral amino acids. Its one-handed form can be isolated because the interconversion between the right- and left-handed forms is almost completely ...

All biological amino acids on Earth appear exclusively in their left-handed form, but the reason underlying this observation is elusive. Recently, scientists from Japan uncovered new clues about ...

Study: Design of D-amino acids SARS-CoV-2 Main protease inhibitors using the cationic peptide from rattlesnake venom as a scaffold. Image Credit: Dmitri Gomon/ Shutterstock This news article was a ...