The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010
Awarded on: 2010-10-06
"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
Affiliations:
- Purdue University – West Lafayette, IN, USA
Ei-ichi Negishi
Born: 1935-07-14 in Changchun, China
Gender: male
Field: Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate (1935–2021)
Biography
Ei-ichi Negishi was a Japanese chemist who was best known for his discovery of the Negishi coupling. He spent most of his career at Purdue University in the United States, where he was the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor and the director of the Negishi-Brown Institute. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for palladium catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" jointly with Richard F. Heck and Akira Suzuki.