Nobel-winning Japanese chemist Ei-ichi Negishi dies at 85

Japanese chemist Ei-ichi Negishi won the Nobel Prize for his work developing a method to create complex chemicals AFP/HENRIK MONTGOMERYWASHINGTON: Japanese chemist Ei-ichi Negishi who won the Nobel prize for developing a method for creating complex chemicals necessary for manufacturing drugs and electronics has died aged 85, his US university said.

In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize for chemistry along with Richard Heck of the University of Delaware and Akira Suzuki of Hokkaido University. Heck laid the groundwork for bonding carbon atoms by using a catalyzer to promote the process in the 1960s.Negishi fine-tuned it in 1977 and it was taken a step further by Suzuki, who found a practical way to carry out the process."We found catalysts and created reactions that allow complex organic compounds to, in effect, snap together with other compounds to more economically and efficiently build desired materials," he was quoted as saying in the university statement.

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