Richard Hell, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were honored for their development four decades ago, one of the most sophisticated tools available to chemists today is called the palladium-catalyzed cross coupling.
It allows chemists to join carbon atoms together, a key step in the process of creating complex molecules. Their methods are currently used worldwide in the commercial production of pharmaceuticals and molecules are used for electronics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
Heck, 79, is an honorary professor at the University of Delaware, who now lives in the Philippines. Negishi, 75, a chemistry professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and 80-year-old Suzuki is a retired professor from Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.Original post @
Nobel Prize Chemistry 2010
Nobel Prize Chemistry 2010
