The 2010 Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Professors Richard Heck (University of Delaware, USA), Ei-ichi Negishi (Purdue University, USA) and Akira Suzuki (Hokkaido University, Japan), ‘ for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis’.
Palladium-catalyzed cross coupling has had, and continues to have, a significant and wide reaching impact on research around the world, as well as in the commercial production of, e.g. pharmaceuticals and molecules for the electronics industry.
On behalf of the Dalton Transactions Editorial Board and Editorial Office, hearty congratulations, Richard, Ei-ichi and Akira!
Read Ei-ichi Negishi’s recent Dalton Transactions Perspective article, A quarter of a century of explorations in organozirconium chemistry, Dalton Trans., 2005, 827-848.
