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Kagan and Soai win Nobel Chemistry Prize for asymmetric synthesis research

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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking work on asymmetric organic synthesis. Their research focused on understanding non-linear effects and autocatalysis, which explains why only one form of certain mirror-image molecules exists in nature. This discovery is crucial for the development of pharmaceuticals, particularly in understanding homochirality, where only one of the two mirror-image variants of molecules like amino acids is found in biological systems. AI

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Kagan and Soai win Nobel Chemistry Prize for asymmetric synthesis research

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Agencies ·

    Kagan, Soai win Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing ‘spectacular’ chemical reactions

    The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. “So this year’s ‌prize is about foundational chemistry. Many molecules occur in two different versions.…

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