Akira Suzuki
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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]
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Born | (1930-09-12) September 12, 1930 (age 93) Mukawa, Hokkaidō, Japan |
Alma mater | Hokkaidō University |
Known for | Suzuki reaction |
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