Akira Suzuki

Akira Suzuki ( Japanese 鈴木章 , Suzuki Akira ; born September 12, 1930 in Mukawa , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese chemist. Suzuki received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010 together with Richard F. Heck and Ei-ichi Negishi .

Akira Suzuki (2010)

Life

Suzuki received his doctorate in 1959 from the University of Hokkaidō in Sapporo . In 1961 he became an 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 at Hokkaidō University, then chemistry professor at Okayama University and in 1995 at Kurashiki University. He was visiting professor at the University of Wales in 1988 and at Purdue University in 2001.

Suzuki works in the field of organic chemistry , investigating more closely organoboron compounds and their applications in synthesis and organometallic chemistry . With Brown he conducted research on hydroboration and organic radicals based on organoborane. He introduced organoboron compounds as carbanions into chemical synthesis. He later investigated the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of organoboron compounds. In doing so, he discovered the Suzuki clutch .

Akira Suzuki and Herbert C. Brown: Organic Syntheses via Boranes. Volume 3: Suzuki Coupling . Aldrich Chemical Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 2003, ISBN 0-9708441-9-0

Norio Miyaura and Akira Suzuki: Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organoboron Compounds (PDF; 3.9 MB). In: Chemical Reviews Volume 95, 1995, pp. 2457-2483 (with a short curriculum vitae and a portrait photo)

Commons : Akira Suzuki - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

↑ Akira Suzuki, Akira Arase, Hachiro Matsumoto, Mitsuomi Itoh, Herbert Charles Brown, Milorad M. Rogic and Michael W. Rathke: Facile reaction of organoboranes with methyl vinyl ketone. Convenient new ketone synthesis via hydroboration . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . Volume 89, 1967, pp. 5708-5709.
↑ George W. Kabalka, Herbert Charles Brown, Akira Suzuki, Shiro Honma, Akira Arase and Mitsuomi Itoh: Inhibition of the reaction of organoboranes with α, β-unsaturated carbonyl derivatives by galvinoxyl. Evidence for a free radical chain mechanism . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Volume 92, 1970, pp. 710-712.
↑ Norio Miyaura and Akira Suzuki: Stereoselective synthesis of arylated (E) -alkenes by the reaction of alk-1-enylboranes with aryl halides in the presence of palladium catalyst . In: J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1979, pp. 866-867.
↑ Norio Miyaura, Kinji Yamada and Akira Suzuki: A new stereospecific cross-coupling by the palladium-catalyzed reaction of 1-alkenylboranes with 1-alkenyl or 1-alkynyl halides . In: Tetrahedron Letters . 1979, p. 3437.