Hideki Sakurai
Encyclopedia
is a Japan
ese chemist
He discovered the Sakurai reaction
in 1976.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
He discovered the Sakurai reaction
Sakurai reaction
The Sakurai reaction is the chemical reaction of carbon electrophiles with allylic silanes catalyzed by strong Lewis acids. It is named after the chemists Akira Hosomi and Hideki Sakurai.Lewis acid activation is essential for complete reaction...
in 1976.