John Kenneth Stille (1930-1989)

American chemist, professor at the University of Iowa and, from 1977, at Colorado State University. He worked on polymer chemistry and transition-metal catalysis.

In 1978, with David Milstein, he described the palladium-catalysed coupling of organostannanes with acyl and aryl halides, the Stille coupling. He died in 1989 in the crash of United Airlines Flight 232 at Sioux City, Iowa.

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