Akira Suzuki (chemist)

Japanese chemist an Nobel Prize Laureate (2010)

Akira Suzuki (鈴木 章, Suzuki Akira, born September 12, 1930) is a Japanese chemist an Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction o an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid wi an aryl- or vinyl-halide catalyzed bi a palladium(0) complex, in 1979.[1][2][3][4]


Akira Suzuki
Born (1930-09-12) 12 September 1930 (age 93)
Mukawa, Hokkaidō, Japan
NaitionalityJapan
Alma materHokkaidō Varsity
Kent forSuzuki reaction
AwairdsNobel Prize for Chemistry (2010)
Person o Cultural Merit (2010)
Order o Cultur (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsHokkaidō Varsity

indiana Varsity
Varsity o Wales
Okayama Varsity o Science
Kurashiki Varsity o Science an the Airts
Academia Sinica

National Taiwan Varsity
InfluencesHerbert Charles Brown

References eedit

  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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link)
  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)