Makoto Kumada (1920-2007)

Japanese chemist, professor at Kyoto University, a specialist in the chemistry of silicon compounds.

In 1972, with Kohei Tamao, he described the coupling of Grignard reagents with aryl and vinyl halides catalysed by nickel–phosphine complexes, the Kumada coupling (or Kumada–Tamao–Corriu coupling), the first of the catalytic cross-couplings.

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