{"id":373409,"date":"2026-10-08T16:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=373409"},"modified":"2026-10-08T16:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:36:12","slug":"2026-nobel-prize-in-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/2026-nobel-prize-in-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for discoveries explaining how homochirality can emerge spontaneously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_373424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-373424\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-373424\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Source-CNBC.jpg?resize=298%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Source-CNBC.jpg?resize=298%2C300&amp;ssl=1 298w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Source-CNBC.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Source-CNBC.jpg?resize=768%2C772&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Source-CNBC.jpg?w=873&amp;ssl=1 873w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-373424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; CNBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Winners:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Henri B. Kagan<\/strong> from France, and<\/li>\n<li><strong> Kenso Soai<\/strong> from Japan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Awarded for: \u00a0<\/strong>The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded for <strong>discoveries of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>These discoveries <strong>enabled chemists to control reactions and produce predominantly or exclusively one of two molecular mirror images, leading to homochirality.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Homochirality:<\/strong> Homochirality refers to the <strong>state in which only one of two mirror-image forms of a molecule is present.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In life\u2019s chemistry, for example, <strong>amino acids exist as two mirror-image forms<\/strong>, but <strong>only one form is found in proteins.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"yellow-h2-box\">Key Contributions by Winners<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Henri B. Kagan \u2013 Controlling Molecular Asymmetry:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Kagan studied <strong>how chemical reactions could be made to produce more of one mirror-image molecule than the other.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He found that <strong>changing the proportion of the two mirror-image forms in a reaction could produce a much different proportion<\/strong> of the resulting products, <strong>showing a non-linear effect.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1986<\/strong>, he <strong>developed a method to manipulate chemical reactions<\/strong> so that they <strong>produced a greater excess of one mirror-image form<\/strong> than previously thought possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kenso Soai \u2013 Achieving Homochirality:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Building on Kagan\u2019s work, Soai searched for<strong> non-linear, asymmetric reactions that could catalyse their own formation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In <strong>1995<\/strong>, he designed the <strong>first chemical reaction with the potential to become homochiral.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In <strong>2003, he demonstrated a reaction that produced only one of the two possible mirror-image forms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for discoveries explaining how homochirality can emerge spontaneously. About 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners: Henri B. Kagan from France, and Kenso Soai from Japan. Awarded for: \u00a0The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded for discoveries of non-linear&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/2026-nobel-prize-in-chemistry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-373409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}