Laxman Thorbole

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, Diazo Chemistry, IISER Bhopal

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

The #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2026 recognises discoveries that have enabled chemists to drive chemical reactions that lead to homochirality.

Life’s chemistry is what chemists call homochiral, after the Greek words for “same” and “hand”. Like hands, all amino acids exist as two mirrored variants, but only one of them is found in the proteins in your cells. The other is rarely found in nature.

For a long time, chemists wondered how homochirality can emerge. When they began to experiment with chemical reactions that can form two mirrored molecules, they always obtained equal proportions of both in their test tubes. However, chemists strived to produce only one of these mirror images, because in the development of molecules that will interact with living beings – such as in pharmaceuticals – only one mirror image will have the desired effect.

Thanks to laureates Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai, we now know how homochirality can emerge. Their discoveries have been decisive for chemists who design reactions for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”

[Enal Diazo Group @EnalDiazo_Group]

Rh-bound protic N-allyl enammonium ylide: A new RAHB enabled 2π-2σ-2π network selectively promotes the elusive 3-aza-Cope rearrangement over NH-insertion has been published in @JOC_OL. Many congratulations to authors. @chm_iiserb @LibraryIISERB @ANRFIndia https://t.co/tjroZGjcKs

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

[Laxman Thorbole @LaxmanThorbole]

@theravi_inTN @D2010205 @SaketJa12507824 @VishalCh1508 @BatulShakir4 @KomalRohilla19 @raushanjha2012 @organochalcogen @SangitK35711415 Congratulations 🎊

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

[Sudhir Muduli @kumar_sudhir125]

Our newly discovered Rh-bound 3-aza-Cope Rearrangement enabled by RAHB: Selectively promoting [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement over N-H insertion and direct C-C bonding now on @ChemRxiv
@chm_iiserb @LibraryIISERB @iiserbhopal

[Laxman Thorbole @LaxmanThorbole]

Check out our recent work on "New class of Rh-bound protic N-Allyl Enammonium Ylides which undergo RAHB enabled stereoselective 3-aza-cope rearrangement".

[Enal Diazo Group @EnalDiazo_Group]

Pre-print of our new manuscript on the design of a new class of Rhodium-bound protic N-allyl enammonium ylides and it's stereoselective 3-aza-Cope rearrangement enabled by resonance assisted hydrogen bonding is available on @ChemRxiv
Check it out - https://t.co/LTX5TUGnYV

[Laxman Thorbole @LaxmanThorbole]

@EnalDiazo_Group Congratulations 👏

[Saikat Chatterjee @SaikatIISERB]

Latest from @EnalDiazo_Group! Check out our newly designed dienaldiazo and its unprecedented polycyclic cascade cyclization, generating staggering molecular complexity from simple molecules #Carbenoid @chm_iiserb @iiserbhopal @LibraryIISERB @JACS_Au https://t.co/Zwf6vnjAJ3

[Pratap Kumar Mandal @PratapKumarcr7]

A great beginning to the New Year!

It's a great pleasure to inform you that I finally published my first Ph.D. work in Chem. Eur. J.

I'm highly grateful to my mentor Dr. Katukojvala. #enaldiazo group

@chm_iiserb @iiserbhopal @WileyGlobal
https://t.co/lVzfFGtPHG

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”

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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

[Laxman Thorbole @LaxmanThorbole]

@ThePatilGroup @serbonline @CSIR_IND @moesgoi @iiserbhopal @csir_ncl @csiriict @chm_iiserb Many congratulations sir

[ISRO @isro]

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.

Congratulations, India🇮🇳!

#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3

[Pradip Gaikwad @gk_pradip]

Happy to share my recent work.

[Laxman Thorbole @LaxmanThorbole]

@laxman_khalse @ChemEurJ @chm_iiserb @iiserbhopal Congratulations

[Laxman Khalse | लक्ष्मण खलसे @laxman_khalse]

Happy to share that our research article on Organocatalytic Enantioselective Intramolecular Michael Addition via In Situ Generated Aminoisobenzofulvenes just published in Chemistry-A European Journal @ChemEurJ @chm_iiserb @iiserbhopal https://t.co/b8GfpuFOgN

[Suman Sar @SumanSar8]

Thrilled to share our latest publication in ACS Catalysis on “Pd-Catalyzed Chemodivergent Synthesis of 1-Indanones via Diethyl Zinc Mediated Precise Switching of Umpolung Reactivity Between α-Diketone and π-Allyl Functionality” @chm_iiserb; @iiserbhopal
https://t.co/vd9q0g7w9t