Ryōji Noyori

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Ryōji Noyori
Noyori in 2013
Born (1938-09-03) September 3, 1938 (age 85)
Kobe, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Alma materKyoto University
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Elias J. Corey
Websitewww.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2001/noyori-facts.html

Ryōji Noyori (野依 良治, Noyori Ryōji, born September 3, 1938) is a Japanese

K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions (Sharpless epoxidation).[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Education and career

Ryōji Noyori was born in

RIKEN, a multi-site national research initiative with an annual budget of $800 million, from 2003 to 2015.[10]

Research

Noyori Materials Science Laboratory in Nagoya University
Noyori Conference Hall in Nagoya University
Study with a fresh and straightforward mind!
(in Nagoya University)
Noyori and Shinya Yamanaka participating in the ceremony of the 50th All Japan Rugby Football Championship

Noyori believes strongly in the power of catalysis and of green chemistry; in a 2005 article he argued for the pursuit of "practical elegance in synthesis".[11] In this article he stated that "our ability to devise straightforward and practical chemical syntheses is indispensable to the survival of our species." Elsewhere he has said that "Research is for nations and mankind, not for researchers themselves." He encourages scientists to be politically active: "Researchers must spur public opinions and government policies toward constructing the sustainable society in the 21st century."[12]

Noyori is currently a chairman of the Education Rebuilding Council, which was set up by Japan's PM

Shinzō Abe after he came to power in 2006.[13]

Noyori is most famous for

antibacterial agent levofloxacin is manufactured by asymmetric hydrogenation of ketones in the presence of a Ru(II) BINAP halide complex.[citation needed
]

He has also worked on other

allylic amines.[14]

MyrceneDiethylamineCitronellalZinc bromideMenthol

More recently with Philip G. Jessop, Noyori has developed an industrial process for the manufacture of N,N-dimethylformamide from hydrogen, dimethylamine and supercritical carbon dioxide in the presence of RuCl2(P(CH3)3)4 as catalyst.[15]

Recognition

Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2005.[1] and an Honorary Doctorate degree from the Institute of Chemical Technology
, Mumbai (formerly known as UDCT) on the 23rd day of February 2018.

He has also been awarded:

See also

  • List of Japanese Nobel laureates
  • List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Kyoto University

References

  1. ^ a b "Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660–2015". Royal Society. Archived from the original on October 15, 2015.
  2. ^ Organic synthesis in Japan : past, present, and future : in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan / editor in chief, Ryoji Noyori (1992)
  3. ^ Asymmetric catalysis in organic synthesis (1994)
  4. ^ T. J. Colacot. "2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry". Platinum Metals Review 2002, 46(2), 82–83.
  5. ^ Ryoji Noyori Nobel lecture (2001)
  6. ^ Ryoji Noyori Nobel lecture video (2001)
  7. ^ Autobiography
  8. ^ Biographical snapshots: Ryoji Noyori, Journal of Chemical Education web site.
  9. ^ Ryoji Noyori – website Nagoya University
  10. ^ RIKEN News March 24, 2015 [1], Nature News March 24, 2015 [2]
  11. PMID 15795753
    .
  12. ^ Keynote address, June 23, 2005, at the Second International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Washington DC.
  13. ^ Abe panel wants kids in class more, plus harsher discipline | The Japan Times Online. Search.japantimes.co.jp (January 20, 2007). Retrieved on 2011-06-27.
  14. ^ Japan: Takasago to Expand L-Menthol Production in Iwata Plant. FlexNews. January 10, 2008
  15. ISBN 978-3-527-29605-7
    . Retrieved June 27, 2011.
  16. ^ (in French) Ryoji Noyori, honorary doctorate awarded Nobel Prize Archived March 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Rennes1 campus, November–December 2001

External links

  • Ryōji Noyori on Nobelprize.org Edit this at Wikidata including the Nobel Lecture December 8, 2001 Asymmetric Catalysis: Science and Technology
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