Akira Suzuki (1930)

Japanese chemist born in Mukawa, Hokkaido, professor at Hokkaido University. After a stay at Purdue University with Herbert C. Brown, who introduced him to the chemistry of boron compounds, he set out to find ways of using them to form C–C bonds.

In 1979, with Norio Miyaura, he described the palladium-catalysed coupling of boron compounds with organic halides, the Suzuki coupling, which he never patented. He received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Richard F. Heck and Ei-ichi Negishi.

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