Asymmetric Synthesis and its Application
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 571
Special Issue Editor
Interests: deploying both batch and continuous processing/bioprocessing approaches for making molecules, with my research interests spanning microfluidics, continuous flow biocatalysis, chiroptical signatures and chiral synthesis, and chiral biopolymers
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The importance of asymmetry for our existence is increasingly valued across numerous industries. From medicines to materials, the capability to create a pure chiral substrate is powerful—and remains non-trivial, even though life itself performs asymmetric synthesis on a regular basis. We require additional synthetic tools (such as organocatalysts, chiral ligands, chiral auxiliaries, and enzymes) and analytical tools (such as X-ray crystallography, chiral HPLC, chiral NMR solvents) to generate and characterize asymmetry. In addition to differences in bioavailability across living systems, the increased order that chirality can provide to nanomaterials and polymers is significant.
As our appreciation for and use of chiral materials and medicines increases, we require evermore reliable and rapid means to synthesize and characterize asymmetric molecules. We also require better means to predict how to generate chirality, and how to optimize asymmetric synthetic outcomes. Although there currently exist many ways to generate asymmetric molecules, they are often system-specific—there exists no one grand way to make any chiral molecule.
This Special Issue, focused on asymmetric synthesis and its application, will highlight emerging approaches for generating chirality. I hope to solicit contributions from a diverse range of researchers, inclusive of both batch and flow-based reaction paradigms, and also inclusive of computational approaches that have been applied experimentally to generate enantioselectivity. Biocatalysis and organocatalysis will be considered, and innovative characterization methodologies for evaluating enantiomeric excess beyond the traditional chiral HPLC will also be considered. All contributions should keep industrial relevance and application in mind.
Please note that all submitted papers must be within the general scope of the Symmetry journal.
Prof. Dr. Amanda Evans
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- asymmetric synthesis in flow
- characterization methods for asymmetric synthesis
- computational approaches for asymmetric synthesis
- biocatalytic asymmetric synthesis
- applications of asymmetric synthesis for pharmaceutical, agrochemical, chemical, and materials industries
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