Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in which field?

Asymmetric organic synthesisCorrect answerYour answerProtein structure predictionCorrect answerYour answerMetal-organic frameworksCorrect answerYour answerQuantum dotsCorrect answerYour answer

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They discovered non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, which bear on why life uses one mirror-image form of molecules.
Metal-organic frameworks won in 2025, protein structure prediction in 2024 and quantum dots in 2023.

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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in which field?

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