Ei-ichi Negishi

Ei-ichi Negishi (根岸 英一, Negishi Eiichi?, born July 14, 1935[1]) is a Japanese chemist who has spent most of his career at Purdue University, United States. He is best known for his discovery of the Negishi coupling.[2] 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.[3]

Negishi was born in Changchun, at that time the capital of Japanese-controlled Manchukuo, now the capital of Jilin, China. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1958, and did his internship at Teijin. He went to study in the United States and obtained his PhD from University of Pennsylvania in 1963 under the supervision of professor Allan R. Day. In 1966, He became a postdoc researcher at Purdue University, and became assistant professor in 1968, working with Nobel laureate Herbert C. Brown. In 1972, he went to become assistant professor at Syracuse University. In 1979, he was promoted to professor at Syracuse University. In the same year, he went back to Purdue University.

In 2000 he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship.[4]

He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2010 together with Richard F. Heck and Akira Suzuki.[3]

References

1. ^ Negishi's CV on its lab's website
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: 683. doi:10.1039/C39770000683.
3. ^ a b Press release 6 October 2010, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2010/press.html, retrieved 6 October 2010 .
4. ^ "Professor Ei-ichi Negishi". J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1 (Royal Society of Chemistry): 9–xii. 2001. doi:10.1039/b009326m.

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