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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win 2026 Chemistry Nobel for work on mirror-image molecules
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says their discoveries help chemists design reactions used in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries in asymmetric organic synthesis. The academy says Kagan found a way to produce a greater excess of one molecular mirror image than previously thought possible. Soai developed a self-reinforcing reaction in which one mirror image can make up 99.99 percent of the product.
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