Kagan and Soai win Chemistry Nobel for chiral synthesis breakthroughs
· Ideallya News
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for discoveries on nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Their work showed how chemistry can strongly favor one mirror-image molecule, a problem tied to drug safety and to research on how life developed single-handed molecular forms.
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