A recently-completed research project on chiral molecular recognition was accepted by an evaluation panel under the auspices of the CAS Bureau of Basic Sciences on August 16 in Beijing.
Focusing on several basic issues of chiral studies, the research project was conducted by researchers from the CAS Institute of Chemistry (IOC) and the CAS Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, and has scored a number of world-class achievements in areas like chiral chemical synthesis, chiral biocatalytic synthesis, supramolecular chirality generation, chiral microreactors, and chiral detection and separation, according to experts of the panel.
As a common phenomenon of life process, chirality is received increasing attention from researchers of organic chemistry. Because it is closely related with drug innovation and healthcare, the number of chiral drugs has kept increasing.
Headed by Prof. Wang Meixiang, director of the CAS Institute of Chemistry, the research team freed itself from the traditional approach of chiral studies, which is limited to the field of organic chemistry. Research methods were borrowed from physical chemistry and analytical chemistry, and encouraging results have been made from such an interdisciplinary teamwork.
During the implementation of the project, a total of 292 research papers were published by its researchers, among which 263 was in journals selected by SCI and more than 20 were on world leading journals such as
Acc. Chem. Res., J. Am. Chem. Soc., and
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
