The seminal 1995 @Nature paper by Kenso Soai and coworkers introduced what became known as the Soai reaction .The remarkable observation was that the chiral alcohol product catalyses its own formation. Starting with only about 2% ee, the reaction amplified that small imbalance
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”