Chemist no. 176 of 350 · Organic

Ryoji Noyori

1938-JapanNobel Chemistry 2001

Asymmetric hydrogenation catalysis

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Ryoji Noyori and BINAP: Making Asymmetric Hydrogenation General

How Ryoji Noyori developed BINAP-Ru and Rh catalysts for enantioselective hydrogenation: mechanism, atropisomerism, uses and exam points for JAM, NET, GATE.

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Biography

Ryoji Noyori: Japan's Master of Chiral Catalysis

Biography of Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist who developed BINAP catalysts for asymmetric hydrogenation and shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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