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Richard F. Heck

Richard F. Heck
Richard F. Heck, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)

Richard Frederick Heck was an American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes. The analgesic naproxen is an example of a compound that is prepared industrially using the Heck reaction.

15 August 1931

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