Ei-ichi Negishi

Ei-ichi Negishi
根岸英一
Negishi in 2010
Born(1935-07-14)July 14, 1935
Xinjing, Manchukuo
(modern Changchun, China)
DiedJune 6, 2021(2021-06-06) (aged 85)
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
NationalityJapanese[1]
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
University of Pennsylvania
Known forNegishi coupling
ZACA reaction
SpouseSumire Suzuki (m. 1959; died 2018)
Children2
AwardsSir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship (2000)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2010)
Person of Cultural Merit (2010)
Order of Culture (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsTeijin
Purdue University
Syracuse University
Hokkaido University
ThesisBasic cleavage of arylsulfonamides, the synthesis of some bicyclic compounds derived from piperazine which contain bridgehead nitrogen atoms. (1963)
Doctoral advisorAllan R. Day
Doctoral studentsJames M. Tour

Ei-ichi Negishi (根岸 英一, Negishi Eiichi, July 14, 1935 – June 6, 2021) was a Japanese chemist who was best known for his discovery of the Negishi coupling.[2][3] He spent most of his career at Purdue University in the United States, where he was the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor and the director of the Negishi-Brown Institute.[4] He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for palladium catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" jointly with Richard F. Heck and Akira Suzuki.[5]

  1. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010".
  2. ^ Anthony O. King, Nobuhisa Okukado and Ei-ichi Negishi (1977). "Highly general stereo-, regio-, and chemo-selective synthesis of terminal and internal conjugated enynes by the Pd-catalysed reaction of alkynylzinc reagents with alkenyl halides". Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications (19): 683. doi:10.1039/C39770000683.
  3. ^ "Ei-ichi Negishi obituary". The Times. London. July 16, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2021. (Subscription required.)
  4. ^ "Ei-ichi Negishi". Department of Chemistry Faculty Directory. Purdue University. Archived from the original on March 14, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  5. ^ Press release, Great art in a test tube, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Accessed October 6, 2010.

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