The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010
Nobel Co recipients Richard F. Heck, Akira Suzuki
Organic Chemist. Inventor of organozinc variant of the palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reaction. Read voraciously including "how to …" publications. Dreamt of Nobel half century prior to being awarded prize. Upon arriving in US and discovering Nobelists visiting UPenn, realized that being awarded the Nobel could happen to anybody including himself.
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Ei-ichi Negishi and Dennis Y. Kondakov Patent
6,002.037 (1999) Chiral organoalanes and their organic derivatives via zirconium-catalyzed asymmetric carboalumination of terminal alkenes
Name: Ei-ichi Negishi
Birth: 14 July 1935, Changchun, China
Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Award: "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
Subject: organic chemistry
Portion of cash: 1/3
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