Scientists from Japan report that their revolutionary crystallographic technique has determined the stereochemistries of molecules with axial and planar chiralities, where classical methods had failed.
A team led by Makoto Fujita from the University of Tokyo captured the chemistry community’s attention just a few years ago when they reported a crystallographic technique capable of analysing compounds without first needing to crystallise them. Read the full article in Chemistry World»
You can read the original journal article in Chemical Science – it’s open access and free to download:
Absolute structure determination of compounds with axial and planar chirality using the crystalline sponge method
Shota Yoshioka, Yasuhide Inokuma, Manabu Hoshino, Takashi Sato and Makoto Fujita
Chem. Sci., 2015, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01681A, Edge Article
