The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010
Awarded on: 2010-10-06
"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
Affiliations:
- University of Delaware – USA
Richard F. Heck
Born: 1931-08-15 in Springfield, MA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American chemist (1931–2015)
Biography
Richard Frederick Heck was an American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes. The analgesic naproxen is an example of a compound that is prepared industrially using the Heck reaction.