RyÅji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori (Japanese野 依 良 治, Ryoji Noyori, born September 3, 1938 in Kobe, Japan) is a Japanese chemist.
Life and work
Ryoji Noyori was born in Kobe, the son of Kaneshi and Suzuko Noyori, where he attended the University of Kobe affiliated elementary school. He then moved to Nada middle and high school. His father, by whom he soon came into contact with the chemical, was director of research in the chemical industry.
With 18 years Noyori began studying at Kyoto University, initially focusing Organic Chemistry at Keiiti Sisido (also Keiichi Shishido ), from which he graduated in 1963 with a master degree. He then worked in the research group of Hotosi Nozaki until his appointment as professor at the University of Nagoya. Noyori returned to a postdoc at Elias Corey at Harvard, where he met, among others, Barry Sharpless, another postdoctoral fellow Corey, back to Nagoya. Through his research topic with Corey, the selective hydrogenation of a double bond in the synthesis of prostaglandin, he came into contact with John Osborn, who had gathered at Harvard University with Geoffrey Wilkinson experience with the rhodium-catalyzed hydrogenation. Inspired by the first publications of Knowles and Horner in the field of asymmetric hydrogenation, this was for several decades focusing his scientific work.
After his return to Japan in 1970 at Nagoya University in 1972, he took a chair.
The asymmetric hydrogenation of β - keto esters with chiral ruthenium -BINAP complexes was one of the key discoveries for him in 2001 the Nobel Prize.
Honors
Noyori has received numerous honors and awards. In addition to the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1985 he was awarded the Prize of the Chemical Society of Japan. In 1989 he received the Fluka Prize for the " Reagent of the Year". The Royal Chemical Society awarded him the 1990 Centenary Medal, Yale University 1991 JG Kirkwood price. In addition, he received the Japan Academy prize (1995), the Arthur C. Cope Award of the American Chemical Society ( 1997), the King Faisal International Prize of Science (1999), the Order of Culture of the Japanese emperor (2000), the Wolf Prize in Chemistry of the Wolf Foundation, Israel ( 2001), the Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society ( 2001) and the Lomonosov Gold medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 2009). He received in 2001 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions, together with the Americans William S. Knowles and K. Barry Sharpless. He was also awarded the honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich, the University of Rennes and the RWTH Aachen.
Noyori held numerous positions held in various scientific organizations. He was president of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry and the Chemical Society of Japan.
He is an Honorary Professor of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and a member of several scientific associations.
Noyori has published over 400 papers in scientific journals and holds over 160 patents.
In his honor, the Ryoji Noyori Prize is named.
Itemization
Selected Publications
- Monograph: ". Asymmetric Catalysis in Organic Synthesis", by R. Noyori, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1994.
- Asymmetric induction in carbenoid Reaction by Means of a Dissymmetric Copper chelates. H. Nozaki, S. Moriuti, H. Takaya and R. Noyori, Tetrahedron Letters, 5239 (1966)
- Asymmetric Catalysis by Architectural and Functional Molecular Engineering: Practical Chemo -and Stereoselective Hydrogenation of Ketones. R. Noyori and T. Ohkuma, Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 40, 40 ( 2001).