Akira Suzuki

Akira Suzuki
Akira Suzuki
	Suzuki in 2010
Born	September 12, 1930 (age 94); Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Alma mater	Hokkaidō University
Known for	Suzuki reaction
Awards	Paul Karrer Gold Medal (2009); Nobel Prize for Chemistry (2010); Person of Cultural Merit (2010); Order of Culture (2010);
	Scientific career
Institutions	Hokkaidō University; Purdue University; University of Wales; Okayama University of Science; Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts;

Akira Suzuki (鈴木章, Suzuki Akira, born September 12, 1930) is a Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl-halide catalyzed by a palladium(0) complex, in 1979.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

^ Miyaura, Norio; Yamada, Kinji; Suzuki, Akira (1979). "A new stereospecific cross-coupling by the palladium-catalyzed reaction of 1-alkenylboranes with 1-alkenyl or 1-alkynyl halides". Tetrahedron Letters. 20 (36): 3437–3440. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)95429-2. hdl:2115/44006. S2CID 53532765. Archived from the original on October 21, 2014. Retrieved October 13, 2010.
^ Miyaura, N.; Suzuki, A. Chem. Commun. 1979, 866.
^ Suzuki, A. Pure Appl. Chem. 1991, 63, 419–422. (Review)
^ Suzuki, A. J. Organometallic Chem. 1999, 576, 147–168. (Review)

Akira Suzuki
Suzuki in 2010
Born	(1930-09-12) September 12, 1930 (age 94) Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Alma mater	Hokkaidō University
Known for	Suzuki reaction
Awards	Paul Karrer Gold Medal (2009) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (2010) Person of Cultural Merit (2010) Order of Culture (2010)
Scientific career
Institutions	Hokkaidō University Purdue University University of Wales Okayama University of Science Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts