Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded
Kenzo Soai and Henri Kagan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a mystery about how chemical reactions produce a single mirror-image form, with implications for pharmaceuticals.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Kenzo Soai and Henri Kagan for solving a chemical mystery about asymmetric synthesis.
- The prize was awarded for discoveries in non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.
- Some molecules exist in two mirror image forms, a concept called chirality, with living organisms using only one version.
- Henri B. Kagan discovered a new method to produce one molecular variant in 1986.
- Kenso Soai described a reaction with potential for full homochirality in 1995.
- Soai discovered the first chemical reaction producing only one variant.
- Amino acids, which form proteins, almost exclusively exist in the left-handed form.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded during Nobel week as the third prize and includes a diploma, gold medal, and a check.
- The discoveries have led to knowledge of how homochirality arises.
- Heiner Linke stated the scientists solved a chemical mystery about how handed organic molecules emerge.
- The discoveries are crucial for pharmaceutical manufacturing and drug production foundations.
- The Swedish Academy of Sciences explained the phenomenon of homochirality.
- Swedish Academy of Sciences said the prize total is 12 million Swedish crowns.
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