Jay Kochi

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Jay Kazuo Kochi (born May 17, 1927 in Los Angeles , California , † August 9, 2008 in Houston , Texas ) was an American chemist and university professor of Japanese descent.

Life

During the Second World War , the Kochis family was interned in a camp in Arizona because of their Japanese descent. It was in this camp that he graduated from high school before attending the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1949 . After receiving his doctorate from Iowa State University in 1952 and spending time at Harvard and Cambridge , he worked in research at Shell Development Co. from 1956 to 1965 . From 1962 Kochi initially taught and researched at Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland (Ohio) and Indiana University in Bloomington , before moving to the University of Houston (Texas) in 1984 .

Scientific work

Kochi conducted research in the field of organometallic chemistry , for example on the coupling of Grignard reagents with organic halides or on various metal-catalyzed oxidative processes. The Kochi reaction is known , in which carboxylic acids are decarboxylated to hydrocarbon chlorides by reaction with lead tetraacetate and lithium chloride .

Awards

Kochi had been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1982 . He received the Humboldt Research Award , the James Flack Norris Award (1981) and the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1988) from the American Chemical Society .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gregory Yerke: Introducing the Professor Jay K. Kochi Papers. University of Houston, July 13, 2016, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Obituaries. 1952. Iowa State University Alumni Association, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kochi, Jay Kazuo: The application of the Hammett equation to the solvolysis of benzyl tosylates (1952). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 13617. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/13617
  4. ↑ M. TAMURA, J. KOCHI: Coupling of Grignard Reagents with Organic Halides . In: Synthesis . tape 1971 , no. 06 , 1971, p. 303-305 , doi : 10.1055 / s-1971-35043 .
  5. ^ Roger A. Sheldon, Jay K. Kochi: Metal-Catalyzed Oxidations of Organic Compounds . Mechanistic Principles and Synthetic Methodology Including Biochmical Processes. Academic Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-12-639380-X ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ↑ James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry. American Chemical Society, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  7. ^ Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards. American Chemical Society, accessed October 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kochi, Jay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kochi, Jay Kazuo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2008
Place of death Houston