Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 Awarded for Asymmetric Synthesis Discoveries

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for discoveries related to non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Their work helped explain how homochirality can emerge and has influenced the design of pharmaceutical reactions that favor a single mirror-image molecule.