News tagged with mirror image
Mirror images united: Simultaneous binding of both enantiomers of a drug to an enzyme
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the binding pockets of enzymes their natural binding partners fit exactly. The principle by which many pharmacological agents work also relies on the fact that these substances fit exactly into the pockets ...
Molecules wrestle for supremacy in creation of superstructures
Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at the University of Liverpool has found how mirror-image molecules gain control over each other and dictate the physical state of superstructures.
Molecules which flip into their own mirror image
May 29, 2009 |
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Catalysts do function, despite the fact that not all the chemical reactions (and partial reactions) which occur are fully understood, including those which take place during the treatment of automobile exhaust. ...
Dutch chemists make new chiral palladium metal
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have succeeded in making the first ever piece of chiral palladium metal. The findings, by a research team led by Gadi Rothenberg, professor of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable ...
Controlling the building blocks of life
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple and reliable method for converting one of the simplest chemical entities into one of the most difficult-to-make molecular building blocks of life, with complete control over its shape, ...
Psychologists report that a gender gap in spatial skills starts in infancy
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Men tend to perform better than women at tasks that require rotating an object mentally, studies have indicated. Now, developmental psychologists at Pitzer College and UCLA have discovered ...
