Akira Suzuki (chemist)
Akira Suzuki (Japanese铃木 章, Suzuki Akira, born September 12, 1930 in Mukawa, Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese chemist. Suzuki received in 2010, with Richard F. Heck and Ei-ichi Negishi Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Life and work
Suzuki in 1959 received his doctorate at the University of Hokkaido in Sapporo. In 1961 he was assistant professor there. From 1963 to 1965 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Herbert Charles Brown's group at Purdue University. From 1973 to 1994 he was a professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Hokkaido, then professor of chemistry at the University of Okayama and 1995 to be at the Kurashiki University. Guest professorships led him in 1988 to the University of Wales and 2001 at the Purdue University.
Suzuki works in the field of organic chemistry, more specifically, he examines organoboron compounds and their applications in synthesis and organometallic chemistry. With Brown he conducted research on hydroboration and organic radicals on Organoborane basis. He led organoboron compounds as carbanions in chemical synthesis. Later he examined the palladium -catalyzed cross-coupling of organoboron compounds. He discovered the Suzuki coupling.
Publications
- Akira Suzuki, Herbert C. Brown: Organic Syntheses via Boranes. Volume 3: Suzuki coupling. Aldrich Chemical Co., Milwaukee, Wis.. 2003, ISBN 0-9708441-9-0