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How asymmetric autocatalysis won the Nobel prize: chemistryworld.com/features/…
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硤合憲三東京理科大名誉教授
ノーベル化学賞受賞を受け神楽坂キャンパスにて喜びの会見🎤
23:40頃 会見を終え下に降りてこられ、現役学生達も終電逃した等話ながら 本当に嬉しそうに見送っていました。
歴史的な瞬間に立ち会えて感動です、
心よりこの度の受賞おめでとうございます｡
#ノーベル化学賞
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【ノーベル化学賞 硤合氏 学生らから祝福】
▼記事はこちら
nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUD0…
ノーベル化学賞の受賞決定から一夜明け、東京理科大に到着した硤合憲三名誉教授は学生らから拍手で迎えられ、花束を贈られました＝杉浦瑛俊撮影@sugiura_nikkei
Overjoyed to learn that Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have been awarded the #NobelPrize in Chemistry! Kagan’s nonlinear effects and Soai’s asymmetric autocatalysis revolutionized our understanding of chirality and molecular self-organization.
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Kenso Soai – awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry – designed the first chemical reaction in which only one of the potential mirror images was formed. Other than life itself, no one had ever achieved this feat. The Soai reaction is one of the most spectacular chemical experiments ever conducted.
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“This is probably the coolest experiment in organic chemistry,” said Peter Somfai, a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, speaking at today's announcement
go.nature.com/3Tn9me8
What does a Nobel-worthy reaction look like in motion? Watch “Soai’s Asymmetric Autocatalytic Dance”, a playful take on how a tiny chiral imbalance amplifies itself into near-perfect homochirality. #NobelPrize #Chirality
youtube.com/watch?v=0POl3V-y…
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+++ EIL: Chemie-Nobelpreis geht an Franzosen Henri Kagan und Japaner Kenso Soai zdfheute.de/wissen/chemie-no…
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai for "the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis." This Collection celebrates their achievement. go.nature.com/3VzCYFH
ALT Text: 'nature portfolio Collection: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026'. Right side: golden chemistry flasks and beakers with liquids, next to a Nobel Prize medal showing Alfred Nobel's profile. Bottom: 'SPRINGER NATURE'.
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Congrats to prof. Soai, this years Nobel Prize laureate and also speaker of IOCB Invited Talks series. We are very proud to have now 17 Nobel Prize winners among them. We are even more proud that some of them got their Nobel Prize AFTER being invited to IOCB…
🗣️ What was it like to work with a future Nobel laureate? Ivo Starý from our institute spoke about his experience in a Czech Television special – earlier in his career, he worked with Kensō Soai, one of the two chemists awarded today.
#IOCBInvitedLecture #IOCB #IOCBPrague
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“Our prime minister wants to call me…”
2026 chemistry laureate Kenso Soai needed to cut short our interview when he learnt that the Japanese prime minister was trying to reach him. Before then, the new laureate spoke to us about his excitement on being awarded the #NobelPrize.
Soai also explained how it feels to have researchers all over the world studying his famous Soai reaction – one of the most spectacular chemical experiments ever conducted.
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Kenso Soai, awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, was born in 1950 in Hiroshima, Japan.
He earned his PhD in 1979 from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Science, @TUS_PR, Japan.
ALT Kenso Soai
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Honored to welcome Prof. Eric Jacobsen @LMU_Muenchen giving a great lecture on privileged chiral catalysts.
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📢 @dfg_public funds the CRC 392 Molecular Evolution in Prebiotic Environments which is founded on the research of @emergenceoflife 🎉. Here is the news release in DE 👇dfg.de/service/presse/presse…
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Nucleophilicity of 4-(Alkylthio)-3-imidazoline Derived Enamines (Ofial, Trapp, et al.) @TrappLab, @OfialLab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Congratulations to Sabrina for successfully defending her excellent doctoral thesis about novel phosphine-ligands and catalysts (SabPhos)!
Congratulations to Max for successfully defending his excellent doctoral thesis about prebiotic phosphorylation reactions with prebiotically formed imidazolidine-4-thiones!
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See the #unique #original samples of #urea (1828) from Friedrich Wöhler!
I took this picture in the @merckgroup museum.
(Photoredox) Organocatalysis in the Emergence of Life: Discovery, Applications, and Molecular Evolution | Accounts of Chemical Research pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
