Ei-ichi Negishi (1935-2021)

Japanese chemist born in Changchun, Manchuria. After working at the Teijin company, he obtained his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and worked with Herbert C. Brown at Purdue, where he was professor for most of his career.

In 1976–1977 he showed that zinc compounds, as well as aluminium and zirconium compounds, couple with organic halides in the presence of palladium or nickel: the Negishi coupling. He received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Richard F. Heck and Akira Suzuki.

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