Edited By: Prof. Minghua Liu
We are the unrivalled scientific journal for chirality research. Chirality publishes original contributions on the role of chirality in chemistry and biochemistry and its biological, chemical, materials, pharmacological, spectroscopic and physical properties.
Our scope encompasses fields such as chemistry (physiochemical, preparative synthetic, and analytical), physics, pharmacology, clinical pharmacology, toxicology, and other biological aspects of chiral molecules.
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Announcements
Call for 2025 Chirality Award Nominations
Nominations are being accepted for the 2025 Chirality Medal, presented by the Società Chimica Italiana to internationally recognized scientists who have made a distinguished contribution to the field of chemical chirality.
The medal will be presented at the Chirality 2025 conference, which will be held in July 2025 in New York City, NY.
Kindly send nominations by February 1, 2025 to Professor James Canary, at [email protected]. Each nomination should include: A letter of nomination, an abbreviated CV of the nominee (1 page of top publications), and one additional supporting letter from an expert in the field.
For more information about the medal or the conference, visit https://www.chirality2025.org.
The Chirality Medal was instituted by the Società Chimica Italiana in 1991 to honor internationally recognized scientists who have made a distinguished contribution to all aspects of chirality. It is awarded each year by a Chirality Medal Honor Committee comprising the Chirality International Committee members and the most recent recipients of the medal.
You can find the full call for nominations here.
Our First Virtual Symposium for Chirality took place on Tuesday, February 22, 2022! Our Associate Editor Oliver Trapp hosted three Chirality authors to hear exciting presentations on their most recent work published in the journal.
Visit this page for information on the program and speakers.
The 2024 CHIRALITY MEDAL has been awarded to Professor Nicholas A. Kotov, University of Michigan, United States.
The Chirality Medal Award was instituted by the Società Chimica Italiana in 1991 and continue to be awarded annually by International Honorary Committee. The goal of this Award is to honour internationally recognized scientists who have made a distinguished contribution to all aspects of Chirality. During the years up to 2024 the Medal has been awarded to 33 internationally recognized scientists working on Stereochemistry, and more specific on broad aspects of Chirality.
Nicholas A. Kotov is currently Irving Langmuir Distinguished University Professor in Chemical Sciences at the University of Michigan; also a Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Director and Principal Investigator of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Complex Particles and Particle Systems (COMPASS). He is as well a Global Chair, University of Bath, United Kingdom.
Nicholas Kotov obtained his PhD in Chemistry from Moscow State University in 1991, where he first explored chirality while working with photoactive metalorganic complexes. After completing his postdoctoral experience at Syracuse University with Prof. Janos Fendler, he embarked on an independent research career at Oklahoma State University in 1996. In 2003 he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan. Nicholas is a pioneer in the field of chiral nanostructures with giant polarization rotation. He has elucidated the primary role of chiral nanostructures in the emergence of complexity in Nature. For these and other studies on complex biomimetic materials Nicholas has been honored with over 60 awards and recognitions. Additionally, he is a dedicated advocate for scientists with disabilities, both visible and invisible.
The Horst Pracejus Prize has been awarded to Prof. Oliver Trapp
Professor Oliver Trapp received the Horst Pracejus Prize for his fundamental contributions to self-amplification in asymmetric catalysis, to enantioselective autocatalysis and to the determination of the absolute configuration by Coulomb explosion imaging. With his developments of self-amplifying asymmetric reactions and elucidation of the mechanism of Soai’s asymmetric autocatalysis, Trapp showed for that such chemical processes are a general phenomenon and can even be rationally designed. He identified the generic principles and made the enormous potential accessible both conceptually and experimentally.
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Articles
Chiral Post-Modification of UiO-66-NH2 on Gas Chromatography Chiral Separation
- 17 July 2025
Graphical Abstract
A particular type of zirconium metal–organic framework (MOF) called chiral UiO-66 was created to serve as a stationary phase in gas chromatography. It successfully achieved high-resolution separation of enantiomers, such as linalool and α-pinene, as well as positional isomers. This MOFs is effective for chiral analysis in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Chiral Separation and Molecular Simulation of Five Quinolones on a Bonded Amylose[(S)-α-Methylbenzyl Carbamate] Column (CHIRALPAK IH) and the Elucidation of Its Recognition Mechanism
- 17 July 2025
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![Chiral Separation and Molecular Simulation of Five Quinolones on a Bonded Amylose[(S)-α-Methylbenzyl Carbamate] Column (CHIRALPAK IH) and the Elucidation of Its Recognition Mechanism Issue 8, 2025](/cms/asset/ed7f80c4-ff3f-4c4b-800c-05f17f11a6cb/chir70050-toc-0001-m.jpg)
This study revealed that hydrogen bonding, π–π stacking, and hydrophobic interactions are the key interacting forces driving the enantioseparation.
Stokes Spectropolarimetry Applied to Measure Circular Birefringence Dispersion of Aqueous Solutions of Sugars
- 8 July 2025
Graphical Abstract
This work demonstrates the use of Stokes spectropolarimetry (SSP) to investigate optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), or circular birefringence (CB), of chiral sugar solutions. The results confirm the relationship between concentration and optical rotation, the dependence on wavelength, and the versatility of SSP to characterize optical anisotropies.
Electrochemiluminescent Chiral Sensor Based on Covalent Organic Frameworks for Discrimination of Phenylalanine Enantiomers
- 6 July 2025
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An electrochemiluminescent chiral sensor based on covalent organic frameworks (CC-MP CCTF) enables sensitive and selective discrimination of phenylalanine enantiomers.
Automated Evaluation Method for Aggregation‐Induced Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Platinum(II) Complexes With 1,1′‐Bi‐2‐naphthol Derivatives as Ligands
- 4 July 2025
Graphical Abstract
An automated high-throughput circularly polarized luminescence (HTCPL) system capable of simultaneously obtaining both circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) and luminescence spectra was used to evaluate the aggregation-induced CPL (AICPL) properties of newly synthesized platinum complexes. This study demonstrates that the HTCPL system effectively reduces human error and improves measurement efficiency in the AICPL evaluation process.
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
SpecDis: Quantifying the Comparison of Calculated and Experimental Electronic Circular Dichroism Spectra
- 243-249
- 26 March 2013
Good Computational Practice in the Assignment of Absolute Configurations by TDDFT Calculations of ECD Spectra
- 466-474
- 20 April 2016
Graphical Abstract
Lanthanide Circularly Polarized Luminescence: Bases and Applications
- 1-13
- 16 October 2014
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Circularly Polarized Luminescence: A Review of Experimental and Theoretical Aspects
- 696-707
- 27 September 2016
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Chemical chiral pollution: Impact on the society and science and need of the regulations in the 21st century
- 402-406
- 21 December 2017
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Pasteur and chirality: A story of how serendipity favors the prepared minds
- Chirality
- 597-601
- 6 August 2021
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Chiral phonons: circularly polarized Raman spectroscopy and ab initio calculations in a chiral crystal tellurium
- Chirality
- 338-345
- 9 March 2023
Graphical Abstract
We observed a chiral phonon in chiral unary crystal tellurium using circularly polarized Raman spectroscopy. By comparing the experiment and ab initio calculation, we determined the handedness of tellurium. We also evaluated the chirality of the phonons by a measure having the symmetry same as electric toroidal monopole.
ECD exciton chirality method today: a modern tool for determining absolute configurations
- Chirality
- 333-363
- 17 November 2021
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Chiral stationary phases and applications in gas chromatography
- Chirality
- 732-759
- 22 March 2022
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This review article focuses on the development of chiral stationary phases for gas chromatography. The fundamental mechanisms of the recognition and separation of enantiomers and the selectors and chiral stationary phases used in chiral gas chromatography are presented. An overview over syntheses and applications of these chiral stationary phases is presented as a practical guidance for enantioselective separation of chiral compound classes and substances by gas chromatography.
Biocatalysis: A smart and green tool for the preparation of chiral drugs
- Chirality
- 1403-1418
- 5 August 2022
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