Most Nobel laureates don’t carry their gold medallion in their wallets. Ei-ichi Negishi, who shared the 2010 Chemistry Prize for his work on palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions, was not most Nobel ...

Negishi cross-coupling reactions have been widely used to form C-C bonds since the 1970s and are often perceived as the result of two metals (i.e zinc and palladium/nickel) working in synergy. But ...

Ei-ichi Negishi grew up in Japan and graduated in 1958 from the University of Tokyo. He first worked as a research chemist at the Japanese chemical fiber producer, Teijin, Ltd. From 1960 to 1963, ...