Akira Suzuki Quotes


The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction between different types of organoboron compounds and various organic electrophiles including halides or triflates in the presence of a base provides a powerful and general methodology for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds.


Citations

Suzuki, Akira. "Recent advances in the cross-coupling reactions of organoboron derivatives with organic electrophiles, 1995–1998." Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 576, no. 1-2, Elsevier, 1999, p. 147.

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Akira Suzuki
Akira Suzuki
  • Born: September 12, 1930
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Profession: Scientist

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.