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1. Oct 7
   2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to Kagan and Soai for asymmetric autocatalysis

   The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan of Paris-Sud University and Kenso Soai of Tokyo University of Science for discovering nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Kagan, 95, was widely seen as having missed out on the prize in 2001; Soai's eponymous reaction is credited with producing near-single-handed chirality from achiral starting materials, a result linked to the origin of biological homochirality. The work is described as an everyday tool for chiral drug, flavour and agrochemical synthesis.

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