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Chemists at the Yale University has synthesized a small-molecule tripeptide-based catalyst that trihalogenates enantiomeric. However the said catalyst quickly interconverts chiral biaryl compounds in a stereoselective manner, paving the way for the potential development of stable atropisomeric products.

Several studies have been conducted to explain the reason associated with the fast and efficient energy transfer taking place in photosynthesis. The coherent wavelike motion of the quantum excitation of the system is shown to be the reason that leads to the observed phenomenon.

Chemistry professor Stephen B.H. Kent of University of Chicago and his co-workers have extended the applicability of the technique developed by them called kinetically controlled ligation (KCL) to the synthesis of an HIV protease analog. They believe that the technique would make it easier to create protein analogs modified virtually at will for studies of protein function and mechanism and as drug candidates.