Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki

Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki will share the SKr10m award Carbon molecular sieve for whatever palladium-catalysed cross coupling, a method for joining carbon atoms together that is applied both in research and for commercial production of drugs and light emitting diodes alike.

Their approach has helped transform work in organic chemistry, which is based Carbon molecular sieve around carbon atoms, an essential building block for life and used in a wide variety of products from food and plastics to explosives.

It builds on four previous techniques which were in the past also rewarded Carbon molecular sieve with Nobel prizes, and was applied earlier this year to graphene, the carbon derivative identified by this year’s Nobel physics prize winners.