Chirality: Three Nobel Prizes and the Mysteries Still Unsolved
Prelude Few ideas in chemistry have been honoured so consistently by the Nobel committee. The prizes of 2001, 2021 and 2026 each rewarded a different way of making one mirror image in preference to the other: first through chiral metal catalysts, then through small organic molecules, and most recently through reactions that amplify their own …
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