Thalidomide, a drug once used to alleviate morning sickness in pregnant women, exhibits distinct properties due to its optical isomers* in the body: one isomer has a sedative effect, while the other ...

THE odour differences of optical isomers have been reviewed by Naves 1. To date, the most that has been observed is a slight difference in the strength or ‘note’, and this has often disappeared when ...

IN this shop monograph the late Prof. Cushny has given an account of the pharmacological behaviour of those drugs which exist in an optically isomerio form. Starting from Pasteur's work on the ...

A French-Japanese collaboration has just developed an organic ultraviolet (UV) laser emitting at a record wavelength of 358.5 ...