Stereochemistry

[instrumental music] Hello, and welcome to this very special bonus episode of Stereochemistry, where we're actually going to be talking about stereochemistry.

That's right, we're talking about this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which was awarded to Henri B. Kagan at Paris Saclay University, and Kenso Suai at the Tokyo University of Science for advances in chirality.

This year's prize is about making chemistry choose a mirror image.

We needed that before, so that we have the solutions today, and we need it today so that we have the solutions tomorrow.

And so investments in fundamental and basic science are all the more needed today.

This has been a bonus episode of Stereochemistry.

Stereochemistry is a podcast project from Chemical & Engineering News.

Chemical & Engineering News is an independent news outlet published by the American Chemical Society.