Chemical reactions are often understood as molecules crossing a high-energy saddle point, known as a transition state, before ...

On October 7, 2026, Professor Kenso Soai of the Tokyo University of Science and Professor Henri Kagan of France were selected as the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Professor Soai, ...

Researchers have developed AI-driven mobile robots that can carry out chemical synthesis research with extraordinary efficiency. Researchers show how mobile robots that use AI logic to make decisions ...

In contrast to conventional organic synthesis, mechanochemistry does not use solvents that eventually become industrial wastes. Thus, mechanochemistry is environmentally friendly and enables us to ...

Understanding and predicting molecular structure and reactivity is fundamental to advancing chemical science and technology, with the potential for rapid progress when combined with machine‑learning ...

A research team developed artificial intelligence technology that could find ways to improve researchers' understanding of the chemical reactions involved in ammonia production and other complex ...

The Soai reaction is a reaction where if there is a 'slight' bias between right-handed and left-handed molecules, the reaction itself snowballs that bias, eventually resulting in almost entirely one ...

Chemistry is all around us. From the widespread production of global food supplies to the metabolism that fuels the tiniest of microorganisms, everything in our surroundings is produced and controlled ...

Henri Kagan of France and Kenso Soai of Japan will share the prize, worth about $1.2 million.

Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological ...