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Richard F. Heck

Scientist · born August 15, 1931 · died 2015

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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.

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  1. ~79Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry2010

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