Teruaki Mukaiyama (1927-2018)
Japanese chemist, professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Tokyo and the Tokyo University of Science. In 1973 he described the TiCl4-promoted aldol addition of silyl enol ethers, the first general crossed aldol reaction with a neutral enolate equivalent.
He also developed condensing reagents for making esters and amides (the Mukaiyama reagent), the alkene hydration that bears his name and a total synthesis of taxol (1999).
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