Inorganic and hybrid molecules and materials

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Just as a person's hands are mirror images of one another, many molecules are also "handed," or chiral. Chiral molecules are important because they are the building blocks of much of biology (e.g., DNA, proteins and sugars) and many interactions, such as those between drugs and their specific targets in the body, depend upon discriminating recognition events between chiral components: only one "hand" of a chiral molecule is recognised, while the other is rejected. Our research takes an integrated approach to the development of fundamentally new catalysts for the selective production of single "hands" of chiral molecules.