Enantioselectivity in environmental safety of current chiral insecticides

Enantioselectivity in environmental safety of current chiral insecticides.

Chiral pesticides currently constitute about 25% of all pesticides used, and this ratio is increasing as more complex structures are introduced. Chirality occurs widely in synthetic pyrethroids and organophosphates, which are the mainstay of modern insecticides. Despite the great public concerns associated with the use of insecticides, the environmental significance of chirality in currently us...

Enantioselectivity on Surfaces with Chiral Nanostructures

Chirality is a critical property of amino acids that form proteins, the building blocks of life, and of DNA, which encodes the genetic traits passed from one generation to the next. Furthermore, chirality can be observed throughout nature in objects ranging from spiral seashells to the human hands. If an object and its mirror image are nonsuperimposable, then they have the property of chirality...

Chiral Drugs: Current Status of the Industry and the Market

Susceptibility of Anopheles stephensi against five current chemical insecticides

Introduction: Malaria is still an important health problem in southern Iran. Anopheles stephensi is one of the most important vectors of malaria, especially in urban areas. Because of long time of chemical insecticides against vectors in endemic areas and their potential resistance to such chemicals, it is necessary that vectors continuously to be assessed against susceptibility level. We...

Chiral Drugs: Current Status of the Industry and the Market