NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY FOR PROF.RICHARD F. HECK,PROF EI-ICHI NEGISHI AND PROF.AKIRA SUZKI

NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY FOR

PROF.RICHARD .F.HECK,

PROF.EI-ICHI NEGISHI,

PROF.AKIRA SUZUKI

Three researchers share this years(2010) Nobel prize in chemistry. Prof. Richard F. Heck, who has been working at University of Delaware,US, Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi, purdue University,west Lafayette,Indiana,US and Prof Aira Suzuki, Hokkaido University, sapporo, Japan. The Royal Sdedish Academy of science is rewarding the three chemists for palladium catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.

The discoveries by the three organic chemists have had a great impact on academic research, the development of new drugs and materials, and are used in many industrial chemical processes for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biologically active compounds.

Three scientists, one from the United states and two from Japan won the Nobel prize for chemistry on Wednesdy 6th September,2010 for inventing new ways to bind carbon atoms with uses that range from fighting cancer to producing thin computer screens.

Prof Richard Heck, Prof Ei-ichi Negishi and Prof Akira Suzuki share the prize for the development of palladium- catalysed cross coupling’ “ palladium-catalysed cross- coupling is used in research world wide, as well as in the commercial production of,for example pharaceuticals and molecules used in the ellectronics industry.

Dr Heck,now with the University of Delawaaare in the US, developed his work on palladium as a catalyst in the 1960s and early 1970s. Dr Negishi,who is at Purdue University in the US .Dr Suzuki of Hokkaido University in northern Japan.



Prof.John Kurakar