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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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When Chemistry Chose a Hand: The Kagan–Soai Story and the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Non-Linear Effects, Asymmetric Autocatalysis and the Amplification of Chirality A prize for asymmetry that feeds itself On 7 October 2026 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan (Université Paris-Sud) and Kenso Soai (Tokyo University of Science) “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric …

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