{"id":229194,"date":"2026-01-16T22:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/organic-solvents-enable-chirality-control-in-inorganic-crystals"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:19:03","slug":"organic-solvents-enable-chirality-control-in-inorganic-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/organic-solvents-enable-chirality-control-in-inorganic-crystals","title":{"rendered":"Organic solvents enable chirality control in inorganic crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/organic-solvents-enable-chirality-control-in-inorganic-crystals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chirality\u2014often described as \u201chandedness\u201d\u2014is a fundamental property of nature, underlying the behavior of molecules ranging from DNA to pharmaceuticals. While chemists have long known how to separate left- and right-handed forms of organic compounds, achieving the same control in inorganic crystals has remained a major scientific challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chirality\u2014often described as \u201chandedness\u201d\u2014is a fundamental property of nature, underlying the behavior of molecules ranging from DNA to pharmaceuticals. While chemists have long known how to separate left- and right-handed forms of organic compounds, achieving the same control in inorganic crystals has remained a major scientific challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}