Like the apocryphal butterfly that flapped its wings and caused a hurricane halfway across the world, a faint trace of impurities in a prebiotic catalytic reaction could have induced the left-handed nature of all biological molecules.

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Any #chemchat or #chemsky folk here who work in industry making or using zeolites and would be willing to have a short interview/meeting? Undergrad researchers and I are part of an NSF innovation corp program and are learning about industry needs. Thanks in advance!

In the beginning, there were chiral molecules. RNA, DNA, proteins, and other biological molecules tend to be present as only either right- or left-handed. However, scientists are not sure how this homochirality emerged.

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Enantiomeric molecules that are chiral only because of substituents that have different carbon isotopes can generate chirality in asymmetric autocatalysis—a reaction in which a chiral product does double duty as a chiral catalyst for its own production.

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How single chirality emerged on Earth is a multilayered mystery that captivates scientists seeking to understand the origins of life.

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Thanks to Bernadette Broderick for visiting #wsuchemistry this afternoon and sharing her research on new tools to study ice chemistry including her lab’s Chirped-Pulse ICE (CPICE) instrument. BTW, Prof Broderik is a WSU alum and earned her PhD in chemical physics. #chemsky

The American Chemical Society member Oluwaseun Ajayi has been named the 2026 Woman of the Year by Women in Chemicals, a nonprofit whose mission is to create and identify opportunities to empower women in the chemical industry.

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This year's #NobelPrize in Chemistry was awarded for research which helps chemists make just one of a molecule's pair of mirror images 🪞 It's useful in making medicinal molecules and gives insights into why biological molecules are formed from single mirror-image building blocks 🧬

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Congratulations to Henri B. Kagan and Kensō Soai, winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry!

ACS Publications is providing free-to-read access through the end of the year to selected articles from each laureate and related research.

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Researchers have shown that chiral solvents can act as the sole source of handedness in several catalytic reactions that preferentially produce a single enantiomer.

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#ChemSky #ChemChat anyone have recommendations for an open source or low cost ELN? or just thoughts on ELNs generally? FindMolecule looks frankly terrible

The pharmaceutical services company Inductive Bio has launched Indy, an AI assistant that it says can check assay data, analyze structure-activity relationships, and handle other recurring medicinal chemistry tasks.

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Publishing federally funded research? Here’s a helpful overview of the revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy. #ChemSky #ChemistryResearch #ScholarlyPublishing

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“Influence of XC Functional on Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials’ Accuracy” — our group's latest work in JCTC. #chemsky #compchem

Using borosilicate glasses as systems, we look into the influence of DFT functional on the physical properties of condensed matter phases. doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Ongoing effort to create a reflection of life’s protein-making machinery could provide access to mirror molecules for diagnostics, therapeutics, and more.

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Deep eutectic solvents are pairs of molecules that are solid on their own but liquids when mixed. Researchers have proposed them as replacements for traditional organic solvents in a multitude of applications: cen.acs.org/business/spe...

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As shortcomings of AI agents become apparent, researchers are proposing strategies to help them improve their outputs — my latest feature for @cenmag.bsky.social:

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