Researchers have designed and built a new chemical tool inspired by natural metal-containing enzymes in living organisms. The product, a tetrahedral “chiral zinc,” maintains its shape for years, providing a new structure with exciting possibilities for manufacturing pharmaceuticals and optical electronics. Experts add quotation marks around “chiral zinc” to emphasize that a chiral bond is attached to the zinc, rather than another atom in a molecule that happens to contain zinc.
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Source: Phys.org