Henri B. Kagan

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   2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to Kagan and Soai for chiral autocatalysis

   The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan of the University of Paris XI and Kenso Soai of Tokyo University of Science for discovering nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Kagan's 1986 work showed a product's chiral purity can exceed that of the catalyst, while Soai reported the first asymmetric autocatalytic reaction (the Soai reaction) in 1995 and in 2003 produced near-pure single-handed chirality starting from achiral materials. Kagan, now 95, was widely seen as having missed out on the 2001 prize.

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