Chapter 12: Nobel Prizes Relating to Organometallic Chemistry

This chapter presents fascinating insights into the research that earned its investigators Nobel Prizes in the field of organometallic chemistry: Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta for olefin polymerization catalysts (1963), Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson for sandwich compounds (1973), Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa for electrically conductive polymers (2000), William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori and K. Barry Sharpless for asymmetric catalysis (2001), Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock for olefin metathesis (2005), and Richard F. Heck, Eiichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions (2010).