The two enantiomers can be compared to a pair of hands; they are non-superimposable mirror images of each other. A consequence of the different properties in biological systems is that a molecule ...

Researchers of Tomsk Polytechnic University collaboratively with colleagues from the Czech Republic developed supersensitive sensors for detecting enantiomers, known as 'mirror molecules', in drugs.

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery - Research HighlightsWas the development of Plavix as a single enantiomer in the 1980s non-obvious — that is, was there an inventive step? In the years 1983–1987 ...