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Akira Suzuki
Born (1930-09-12) September 12, 1930 (age 94)
Mukawa, Hokkaidō, Japan
NationalityJapan
Alma materHokkaidō University Purdue University
Known forSuzuki reaction
AwardsNobel Prize for Chemistry (2010)
Person of Cultural Merit (2010)
Order of Culture (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsHokkaidō University

Purdue University
University of Wales
Okayama University of Science
Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts
Academia Sinica

National Taiwan University

Akira Suzuki (鈴木 章, Suzuki Akira, born September 12, 1930) 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.[1][2][3][4]

Life

Suzuki was born on September 12, 1930, in Mukawa, Hokkaidō. He studied at Hokkaido University and after receiving his PhD he worked there as assistant professor. From 1963 until 1965, Suzuki worked as a postdoctoral student with Herbert Charles Brown at Purdue University and after returning to the University of Hokkaidō he became a full professor there. With his retirement from the University of Hokkaidō in 1994 he took several positions in other Universities: 1994–1995 Okayama University of Science and 1995–2002 Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts.[5] He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2010 together with Richard F. Heck and Ei-ichi Negishi.[6]

Awards

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References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Miyaura, N.; Suzuki, A. Chem. Commun. 1979, 866.
  3. ^ Suzuki, A. Pure Appl. Chem. 1991, 63, 419–422. (Review)
  4. ^ Suzuki, A. J. Organometallic Chem. 1999, 576, 147–168. (Review)
  5. ^ Miyaura, Norio; Suzuki, Akira (1995). "Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organoboron Compounds". Chemical Reviews. 95 (7): 2457–2483. doi:10.1021/cr00039a007.
  6. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010" (Press release). Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 6 October 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  7. ^ Akira Suzuki (in Japanese)
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