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Named after Richard F. Heck, who with others received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for its discovery and development.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Heck reaction
Today it means: The reaction of an unsaturated halide (or triflate) with an alkene in the presence of a base and a palladium catalyst to form a substituted alkene. Full definition →