Henri Kagan と Kenso Soai は、2026年のノーベル化学賞を受賞し、分子の手性に存在する微細な非対称性がどのように拡大され、一方的手性の分子が overwhelmingly 生成されるかを発見した。この研究は、生命の同手性がどのように出現するかを説明するものであり、彼らの仕事により、手性触媒が非線形的に小さな不均衡を拡大し、ほぼ排他的に一方の鏡像構造を生成できることが示された。
なぜ重要か. この画期的な発見は、薬品開発、材料科学、生命の起源を理解する上で不可欠であり、生物学的分子が均一な手性を達成する仕組みを説明し、正確な手性化合物の合成を可能にする。
Seventy-one percent of people with cancer in the United States live for at least five years after diagnosis
Kenso Soai of the Tokyo University of Science
Kagan showed how catalysts can amplify a small asymmetry in handedness.
the five-year survival rate for prostate cancer is now nearly 98%
up from 49% in the late 1970s
DNA is right-handed
amino acids are left-handed
the groundbreaking discoveries by Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have reshaped our understanding of molecular chirality
Henri Kagan of the University of Paris-Sud
prize committee member Peter Somfai said at the press conference.
“Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can emerge spontaneously,” said Heiner…
Today’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors Henri Kagan of the University of Paris-Sud and Kenso Soai of the Tokyo University of Science for discovering how chemis…
“Taken together, the groundbreaking discoveries by Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have reshaped our understanding of molecular chirality, how it is created, amplif…
In experiments in the 1980s, Kagan showed how to manipulate reactions so that a tiny asymmetry in handedness can be amplified. And in the 1990s, Soai demonstra…
