Akira Suzuki (chemist)
Japanese chemist (1930 - )
Akira Suzuki (鈴木 章, Suzuki Akira, born September 12, 1930) is a Japanese chemist. He first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl-halide catalyzed by a palladium(0) complex, in 1979.[1][2][3][4] He won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Akira Suzuki | |
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 Suzuki in 2010 | |
| Born | September 12, 1930 |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Alma mater | Hokkaidō University |
| Known for | Suzuki reaction |
| Awards | Nobel Prize for Chemistry (2010) Person of Cultural Merit (2010) Order of Culture (2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Hokkaidō University Purdue University University of Wales Okayama University of Science Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts |
| Influences | Herbert Charles Brown |
References
change- ↑ Miyaura, Norio; Yamada, Kinji; Suzuki, Akira (1979). "A new stereospecific cross-coupling by the palladium-catalyzed reaction of 1-alkenylboranes with 1-alkenyl or 1-alkynyl halides". Tetrahedron Letters. 20 (36): 3437–3440. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)95429-2. hdl:2115/44006. S2CID 53532765. Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
- ↑ Miyaura, N.; Suzuki, A. Chem. Commun. 1979, 866.
- ↑ Suzuki, A. Pure Appl. Chem. 1991, 63, 419–422. (Review)
- ↑ Suzuki, A. J. Organometallic Chem. 1999, 576, 147–168. (Review)
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