Ei-ichi Negishi

Ei'ichi Negishi
Born	(1935-07-14) July 14, 1935 Changchun, China
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	University of Tokyo University of Pennsylvania
Known for	Negishi coupling
Awards	Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship (2000) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2010)
Scientific career
Institutions	Purdue University Syracuse University

Ei'ichi Negishi (根岸 英一, Negishi Eiichi, born July 14, 1935) is a Japanese chemist who spent most of his career at Purdue University, United States. He is best known for his discovery of the Negishi coupling. 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.

Negishi was born in Changchun, at that time the capital of Japanese-controlled Manchukuo, now the capital of Jilin province, China. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1958, and did his internship at Teijin. He went to study in the United States and obtained his PhD from University of Pennsylvania in 1963. In 1966, He became a postdoc researcher at Purdue University, and became assistant professor in 1968, working with Nobel laureate Herbert C. Brown. In 1972, he went to become assistant professor at Syracuse University. In 1979, he was promoted to professor at Syracuse University. In the same year, he went back to Purdue University.

In 2000 he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship.

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