Chiral technology

Chiral Quest gains licence for hydrogenation knowhow – 1-Jun-2010

Chiral Quest recently obtained a licence to the technology via the Japan Science and Technology Agency

Award for sensing technology used in chirals r&d – 1-Jun-2010

This year's Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award goes to Professor Torsi at the University of Bari, Italy

Regis expands applications for chiral columns – 1-Jun-2010

Regis Technologies has proved three of its chiral column lines are suitable for separation problems

Free chiral screening service for drugs – 1-Jun-2010

Phenomenex has introduced a chiral screening service for customers in pharmaceutical r&d

Acoris and c-LEcta to develop synthetic routes for chiral compounds – 11-Aug-2009

Acoris Research, a subsidiary of Hikal, and c-LEcta, a German industrial biotech company, are to collaborate on developing synthetic routes for chiral compounds. The partnership combines the expertise of Acoris in process development and small-scale manufacturing with the biocatalysis technologies of c-LEcta.

Nature's helping hand in chiral separation – 8-Jun-2009

Scientists studying marine bacteria have discovered an easy way of segregating right- and left-handed microbes - a discovery that could lead to a new way of isolating chirals. Susan Birks reports

Celtic Catalysts opens UK pilot scale facility – 8-Jun-2009

Chirality can be induced by irradiation – 8-Jun-2009

Chiral centres in molecules – 10-Nov-2008

Dr Sarah Houlton outlines some of the methods that companies are using today to introduce chiral centres into molecules

White biotechnology for greener chemistry – 7-May-2008

Professor Athanassios Giannis, medicinal chemist and head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Leipzig, describes how (2R,3S)-isocitric acid, a forgotten member of the chiral pool, has been made accessible in kilogram amounts for organic syntheses