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enantioselective synthesis

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    Enantioselective synthesis is a research area in organic chemistry that focuses on the development of methods to selectively produce a single enantiomer (mirror image) of a chiral molecule. Chirality is a property of molecules that have non-superimposable mirror images, known as enantiomers. Enantiomers can have different biological activities, pharmacological properties, and chemical reactivity, making the ability to selectively produce one enantiomer over the other important in drug discovery, asymmetric catalysis, and materials science. Enantioselective synthesis involves the use of chiral catalysts, chiral auxiliaries, and chiral ligands to control the stereochemistry of a reaction and efficiently produce a desired enantiomer. The development of new enantioselective synthetic methods is a rapidly growing area of research in organic chemistry.

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