The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010
Awarded on: 2010-10-06
"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
Affiliations:
- Hokkaido University – Sapporo, Japan
Akira Suzuki
Born: 1930-09-12 in Mukawa, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese chemist (born 1930)
Biography
Akira Suzuki is a Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who 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.