THE SOAI REACTION AND RELATED TOPIC

These landmark results can be regarded as belonging to the most important ones in the whole territory of chemistry in the last decades. Asymmetric autocatalysis is already generally mentioned in chemical literature as the Soai Reacion. A group of interested scientists initiated a series of Symposia on the Soai Reaction, which started in 2008 in Lama Mocogno (MO, Italy) and continued in 2010 in Felsomocsolád (Hungary). These meetings were organized under the scientific patronage of the (Italian) National Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia as well as the University of Technology and Economics of Budapest (Hungary). The participants of the Felsomocsolád Symposium decided to publish the most important results of this meeting, together with contributions of some eminent invited scientists under the patronage of our Academy. The result of this effort is the present Volume, which contains 15 chapters from prominent specialists of the field, including Professor Kenso Soai himself and also three other members of our Academy. We are convinced, that this concentrated synthesis of various aspects of asymmetric autocatalysis will help the future research efforts and its quality will destine the book for being a standard publication in this highly exciting field.