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Akira Suzuki

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Japanese chemist (1930 - )

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Akira Suzuki is a Japanese chemist born in 1930 who is known for his work in organic chemistry. He is notable for developing the Suzuki reaction, a widely used chemical process that has become fundamental to modern drug synthesis and materials science.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2010

    “for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Suzuki
Gender
male
Citizenship
Japan
Occupation
professor
Languages spoken
Japanese
Academic degree
Doctor of Science
Field of work
chemistry
Image
Akira Suzuki 20111212.jpg
Residence
Ebetsu
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Commons category
Akira Suzuki
date of birth
1930-09-12
member of
Japan Academy
name in kana
すずき あきら
name in native language
鈴木章
influenced by
Herbert C. Brown
interested in
chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Early life and education

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