Making catalysts that selectively produce one mirror-image of a desired molecule rather than the other is one of the most crucial (but underappreciated) branches of modern chemistry.   I have rounded up a few new approaches to this old problem in this one-page piece:

New twists on catalysis

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2006/June/01060603.asp

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