The hosts recount how they spotted an error in the Nobel Prize popular science illustration depicting an enantiomer pair, where the flipped molecule's zinc-oxygen bond was drawn as solid instead of dotted and was incorrectly attached to an isopropyl group instead of the oxygen atom. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences acknowledged the error on social media, corrected the figure on their website, and invited the hosts to Stockholm for next year's prize announcements.
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The American Chemical Society's publication Chemical & Engineering News separately covered the wave of stereochemistry fact-checking that followed the Nobel announcement.
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The error was first flagged about five hours after the prize announcement and confirmed by organic chemistry teachers in the audience before the Academy responded.
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