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.
The findings underpin routine chiral synthesis in pharma and related industries, though the prize itself has no direct AI/ML connection.
< img id="wx_img" src="https://www.qbitai.com/wp-content/uploads/imgs/qbitai-logo-1.png" width="400" height="400">
2026-10-07 22:10:33 来源：量子位
乔不迟 发自 凹非寺
量子位 | 公众号 QbitAI
刚刚，2026年诺贝尔化学奖正式揭晓！
瑞典皇家科学院宣布，今年的诺贝尔化学奖授予法国巴黎第十一大学的Henri B. Kagan（亨利·卡根）和日本东京理科大学的Kenso Soai（硤合宪三），以表彰他们在不对称有机合成中发现非线性效应与自催化。
#Henri B. Kagan#Kenso Soai#Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences#Paris-Sud University#Tokyo University of Science#Jilin University#Nobel Prize in Chemistry