Akira Suzuki (chemist)

is a Japanese chemist. He 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.Miyaura, N.; Suzuki, A. Chem. Commun. 1979, 866.Suzuki, A. Pure Appl. Chem. 1991, 63, 419–422. (Review)Suzuki, A. J. Organometallic Chem. 1999, 576, 147–168. (Review) He won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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