What is Akira Suzuki (chemist)?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Akira Suzuki |image = Nobel Prize 2010-Press Conference KVA-DSC 7383.jpg |image_size = |caption = Suzuki in 2010 |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1930|9|12}} |birth_place = [[Mukawa, Hokkaidō]], [[Japan]] |residence = |nationality = [[Japan]] |death_date = |death_place = |field = [[Chemistry]] |work_institution = [[Hokkaidō University]]<br>[[Purdue University]]<br>[[University of Wales]]<br>[[Okayama University of Science]]<br>[[Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts]] |alma_mater = [[Hokkaidō University]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |influences = [[Herbert Charles Brown]] |known_for = [[Suzuki reaction]] |prizes = [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]] (2010)<br>[[Person of Cultural Merit]] (2010)<br>[[Order of Culture]] (2010) |religion = |footnotes = }} {{nobelprize|Chemistry}}{{nihongo|'''Akira Suzuki'''|鈴木 章|Suzuki Akira|born September 12, 1930}} is a Japanese chemist. He first published the [[Suzuki reaction]], the [[organic reaction]] of an [[aryl]]- or [[Vinyl group|vinyl]]-[[boronic acid]] with an aryl- or vinyl-[[halide]] catalyzed by a [[palladium|palladium(0)]] [[complex (chemistry)|complex]], in 1979.<ref>{{cite journal| author1 = Miyaura, Norio| author2 = Yamada, Kinji| author3 = Suzuki, Akira| year = 1979| title = A new stereospecific cross-coupling by the palladium-catalyzed reaction of 1-alkenylboranes with 1-alkenyl or 1-alkynyl halides| journal = Tetrahedron Letters| volume = 20| issue = 36| pages = 3437–3440| doi = 10.1016/S0040-4039(01)95429-2| hdl = 2115/44006| s2cid = 53532765| url = http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/44006| access-date = 2018-10-11| archive-date = 2014-10-21| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141021232857/http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/44006| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>Miyaura, N.; Suzuki, A. ''Chem. Commun.'' '''1979''', 866