Kensō Soai (硤合 憲三, Soai Kensō) (born 1950) is a Japanese organic chemist.
Soai studied at the University of Tokyo, where he received his Ph.D. in 1979 in organic synthesis under Teruaki Mukaiyama and was a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
He conducted his postdoctoral studies with Ernest L. Eliel at the University of North Carolina.
[1] He is involved in asymmetric and enantioselective synthesis, asymmetric autocatalysis, origin of chirality, The Soai reaction for alkylation of pyrimidine-5-carbaldehyde with diisopropylzinc is named after him.
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