Known for Fukuyama coupling Name Tohru Fukuyama | Role Chemist Doctoral advisor Yoshito Kishi | |
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Institutions Harvard University, Rice University, University of Tokyo Alma mater Nagoya University, Harvard University Education Nagoya University, Harvard University | ||
Tohru Fukuyama (福山 透, Fukuyama Tōru, born 9 August 1948) is a Japanese organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at University of Tokyo in Japan. He discovered the Fukuyama coupling in 1998.
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner Satoshi Ōmura is his friend.
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