Tamejiro Hiyama

[3] In particular, he is interested in ortho and benzylic C-H activation, and C-C, C-N, and C-Si bond formation via cross-coupling with organosilicon reagents.

His favorite way of spending a holiday is “cleaning [his] small garden by picking out weeds one by one”, which is “good psychological training for a Buddhist priest”.

[7] In 1983, Hiyama and Nozaki published another paper extending the scope of the reaction to include aryl and vinyl halides.

[8] In 1986, Nozaki and Kishi independently discovered that the reaction depended on the nickel impurities in the chromium(II) chloride salt.

[11] The NHK reaction demonstrates high chemoselectivity towards aldehydes, as it tolerates a range of functional groups,[12] and has been used on the process scale.