Ei-ichi Negishi

Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi is H. C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in Purdue University. He has received various awards, with the most representative one being the 1998 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, the 2010 ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, the 2010 Royal Society of Chemistry s Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship, and the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Professor Negishi discovered the Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of various organometallic compounds, including those of Mg, Zn, B, Al, Sn, and Zr. Today, those cross-coupling reactions involving Zn, Al, and Zr are called the Negishi coupling. For this outstanding discovery, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Akira Suzuki, Professor Emeritus at Hokkaido University and Richard F. Heck, Professor Emeritus at University of Delaware.