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Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand - Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
arstechnica.com · 2026-10-07
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Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand - Ars Technica
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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedLife relies on many molecules with handedness, and most biological systems use only one chiral form.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedMost chemical reactions produce a 50-50 mix of left- and right-handed forms, but life uses only one of them.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedThe 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for discovering chemical reactions could be biased, producing large excesses of one of the two forms of a chemical.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedBecause of chirality differences, key enzymes often fail to work when presented with chemicals of the wrong handedness.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedThe origin-of-life challenge is to explain how an initially mixed world produced organisms that used only one handed form.View evidenceHide evidence
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PubMed, Europe PMC, Crossref · 15 candidate papers
The Asymmetric Self-Replicative Alkylation of N-Arylaldimines Using Organolithium Reagents.
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026 · PubMed, Europe PMC
Asymmetric Autocatalysis and the Origins of Homochirality of Organic Compounds. An Overview
Advances in Asymmetric Autocatalysis and Related Topics · 2017 · Crossref
Mechanistic analysis and kinetic profiling of Soai's asymmetric autocatalysis for pyridyl and pyrimidyl substrates.
Nature Communications · 2025 · PubMed, Europe PMC
Asymmetric Autocatalysis, Absolute Asymmetric Synthesis and Origin of Homochirality of Biomolecules
Progress in Biological Chirality · 2004 · Crossref
Autocatalytic symmetry breaking and chiral amplification in a feedback network combining amino acid synthesis and ligation.
2025 · Europe PMC
And 10 more candidates considered.