Ryōji Noyori

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Ryoji Noyori

Ryōji Noyori ( Japanese 野 依 良 治 , Noyori Ryōji ; born September 3, 1938 in Kobe , Japan) is a Japanese chemist. In 2001 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .

Life

Ryōji Noyori was born in Kobe as the son of Kaneshi and Suzuko Noyori, where he attended the elementary school affiliated with the University of Kobe . He then switched to Nada middle and high school. His father, through whom he came into contact with chemistry at an early age, was a research director in the chemical industry.

At the age of 18, Noyori began studying at the University of Kyoto , initially focusing on organic chemistry with Keiiti Sisido (also Keiichi Shishido), which he completed with a master's degree in 1963 ( Nagoya University ).。 He then worked in Hotosi Nozaki's group up to his appointment as professor at Nagoya University. Noyori returned to Nagoya after doing a postdoc with Elias Corey at Harvard , where he met Barry Sharpless , another of Corey's postdocs. Through his research topic at Corey, the selective hydrogenation of a double bond in the synthesis of prostaglandin , he came into contact with John Osborn, who had gained experience with rhodium-catalyzed hydrogenation at Harvard with Geoffrey Wilkinson . Inspired by the first publications by Knowles and Horner in the field of asymmetric hydrogenation, this became the focus of his scientific work for several decades.

After his return to Japan in 1970 to Nagoya University, he took over a professorship in 1972.

Asymmetric hydrogenation according to Noyori

The asymmetric hydrogenation of β- keto - esters with chiral ruthenium - BINAP complexes was one of the crucial discoveries for him in 2001 the Nobel Prize.

Honors

Noyori has received numerous honors and awards.

He was also awarded honorary doctorates from the Technical University of Munich , the University of Rennes and the RWTH Aachen .

Noyori held numerous offices in various scientific organizations. He was president of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry and the Chemical Society of Japan.

He is honorary professor at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and a member of numerous scientific associations.

Noyori has published over 400 articles in scientific journals and holds over 160 patents.

The Ryōji Noyori Prize is named in his honor.

Noyori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001 and of the National Academy of Sciences since 2003 .

Fonts

  • Asymmetric Catalysis in Organic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1994.
  • with H. Nozaki, S. Moriuti, H. Takaya: Asymmetric Induction in Carbenoid Reaction by Means of a Dissymmetric Copper Chelate . Tetrahedron Letters, 1966, 5239
  • with T. Ohkuma: Asymmetric Catalysis by Architectural and Functional Molecular Engineering: Practical Chemo- and Stereoselective Hydrogenation of Ketones , Angewandte Chemie , International Edition, Volume 40, 2001, p. 40

Web links

Commons : Ryōji Noyori  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/people/nobel/ryoji_noyori/index.html
  2. ↑ Kitamura, M .; Tokunaga, M .; Ohkuma, T .; Noyori, R .: Asymmetric Hydrogenation of 3-Oxo Carboxylates using BINAP-Ruthenium Complexes: (R) - (-) - Methyl 3-Hydroxybutanoate In: Organic Syntheses . 71, 1993, p. 1, doi : 10.15227 / orgsyn.071.0001 ; Coll. Vol. 9, 1998, p. 589 ( PDF ).
  3. ^ Book of Members. Retrieved July 27, 2016 .
  4. ^ Portrait on the National Academy of Sciences page , accessed March 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Noyori, Ryōji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 野 依 良 治 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobe , Japan