Newly designed ligands for a catalytic reaction to synthesize drugs and useful compounds
Monday, June 29, 2020 - 11:40
in Biology & Nature
Currently, various therapeutic compounds on the market, such as proteins, enzymes, and amino acids, are 'chiral compounds'—molecules with two structures that are mirror images of each other but cannot be superimposed. Although the two variants of the molecule, also called 'enantiomers,' are structurally the same, how they are oriented (their chirality) makes them functionally different from each other.