Kenji Soai
Japanese chemist known for discovering the Soai reaction, a case of autocatalytic chiral amplification. This work provided an important chemical model for explaining the origin of chirality in nature.
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Kenji Soai discovered that a molecule with a specific chiral configuration can catalyze the generation of its own analogous structure, a phenomenon known as autocatalysis.
Soai demonstrated that the autocatalytic process amplifies the initial chiral bias, and even if the difference between the two chiral molecules under the initial conditions is extremely small, after the autocatalytic cycle one configuration rapidly comes to dominate absolutely.
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Kenji Soai discovered that a molecule with a specific chiral configuration can catalyze the generation of its own analogous structure, a phenomenon known as autocatalysis.
50%UnverifiedSoai demonstrated that the autocatalytic process amplifies the initial chiral bias, and even if the difference between the two chiral molecules under the initial conditions is extremely small, after the autocatalytic cycle one configuration rapidly comes to dominate absolutely.
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