Ei-ichi Negishi
Ei-ichi Negishi (Japanese根 岸 英 一, Eiichi Negishi, * July 14, 1935 in shinkyō / Xinjing, Manchukuo (now Changchun, Jilin, People's Republic of China) ) is a Japanese chemist. For the Negishi coupling, he received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Richard Fred Heck and Akira Suzuki.
Life
Negishi was awarded the Bachelor of Science in 1958 at the University of Tokyo and the Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. Similarly as after obtaining his B.Sc. He then worked for the pharmaceutical company Teijin. In 1966 he became an Assistant Professor at Brown University and then came across the University of Syracuse, 1979 to Purdue University, where he teaches since then.
His main areas of work are palladium - or nickel-catalyzed coupling reactions such as the eponymous Negishi coupling, and carbometalations of alkenes and alkynes. If zinc, aluminum or zirconium organometallic compounds used in the coupling reaction, then one speaks of a Negishi coupling.