Akira Suzuki

For other people named Akira Suzuki, see Akira Suzuki (disambiguation).

Akira Suzuki
Suzuki in 2010
Born (1930-09-12) September 12, 1930 (age 94)
Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Alma materHokkaidō University
Known forSuzuki reaction
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions

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]

  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. hdl:2115/44006. S2CID 53532765. Archived from the original on October 21, 2014. Retrieved October 13, 2010.
  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)