Ei-ichi Negishi

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Negishi in 2010

Ei-ichi Negishi (根岸 英一, Negishi Eiichi, July 14, 1935[1] – June 6, 2021) was a Japanese chemist. He was 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" together with Richard F. Heck and Akira Suzuki.[3]

Negishi died in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 6, 2021 at the age of 85.[4]

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  1. Negishi's CV Archived 2010-10-24 at the Wayback Machine 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 (19): 683. doi:10.1039/C39770000683.
  3. "Press release 6 October 2010". Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 October 2010. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help).
  4. Ei-ichi Negishi, one of 2 Nobel Prize winners from Purdue University, dies