| Personal Data |
| Born: |
July 16, 1943 (Kobe, Japan) |
| Citizenship: |
Japan |
| Current Address: |
The University of Chicago
Department of Chemistry
5735 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637 |
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| Education |
| B.S. |
Kyoto University, 1967 (Prof. H. Nozaki, Thesis Director) |
| Ph.D. |
Harvard University, 1971 (Prof. E. J. Corey, Thesis Director) |
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| Professional |
| 1971-1972 |
Toray Industries, Inc. (Prof. J. Tsuji, Adviser) |
| 1972-1976 |
Instructor, Kyoto University |
| 1976-1977 |
Lecturer, Kyoto University |
| 1977-1980 |
Associate Professor, University of Hawaii |
| 1980-1983 |
Associate Professor, Nagoya University |
| 1983-2002 |
Professor, Nagoya University |
| 1997-1999 |
Councilor of Nagoya University |
| 2002-present |
Professor, The University of Chicago
Arthur Holly
Compton Distinguished Professor |
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| Publications |
| 472 original papers and 107 reviews (50 in Japanese) |
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| Field of Research |
Organic chemistry, Synthetic organic chemistry
Organometallic chemistry, Asymmetric synthesis
Natural product synthesis, Enzyme inhibitor, Bioorganic chemistry |
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| Memberships |
The American Chemical Society
The Royal Society of Chemistry
The Chemical Society of Japan
The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
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| Editorships |
Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, Consulting Editor, 1990-present.
Tetrahedorn and Tetrahedron Letters, Consulting Editor, 2003-present.
Organic Syntheses, Board of Editors, 1988-1993, Advisory Board,
1993-present.
Synlett, Board of Editor, 1989-present.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., Editorial Advisory Board, 1994-1999.
J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., Regional Advisory Board, 1994-1996.
Bull. of the Korean Chemical Society, International Advisory
Board, 1998-present.
Organic Letters, Advisory Board, 1999-present.
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Advisory Board, 1999-present.
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, International
Advisory Board, 1992-1995.
Molecules Online, Springer, 1998-1999.
Topics in Current Chemistry, Springer, 1997-present.
Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, Advisory Board, 2001-present.
Central European Science Journals, Editorial Board, 2002-present
Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, Editorial Advisory Board, 2005-present
Trends in Organic Chemistry, Editorial Advisory board, 2005-present |
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| Academic Awards and Honors |
The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemist, 1977
Organic Reaction Lecturer, 1988
IBM Science Award, 1988
Houkou Award, 1991
Chunichi Award, 1992
Prelog Medal, 1993
Merck-Schuchardt Lectureship, 1994
The Chemical Society of Japan Award, 1995
Toray Science and Technology Award, 1997
Max-Tishler Prize, 1998
Le Grand Prix de la Fondation Maison de la Chimie, 2002
Tetrahedron Chair, 2002
National Prize of Purple Medal (Japan), 2002
Molecular Chirality Award, 2003
Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003
Yamada Prize, 2004
Tetrahedron Prize, 2006
The Karl-Ziegler Professorship, 2006
The Japan Academy Award, 2007
Humboldt Research Award, 2007 |
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| Plenary, Keynote, and Honor Lectureships |
| 1979 |
Pacific Coast Lectureship, USA |
| 1979 |
PAC Meeting, Honolulu, USA |
| 1982 |
IUPAC Conference on Organic Synthesis, Tokyo |
| 1983 |
IUPAC Conference on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Toward Organic Synthesis, France |
| 1984 |
Annual Meeting of Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, Tokyo |
| 1985 |
Euchem Stereochemistry Conference at Burgenstock, Switzerland |
| 1985 |
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Tokyo |
| 1986 |
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Korea, Seoul |
| 1986 |
Gordon Conference on Stereochemistry, USA |
| 1986 |
Hoechst Conference on Stereochemistry, Germany |
| 1987 |
Annual Meeting of Agricultural Society of Japan, Tokyo |
| 1987 |
IUPAC Conference on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Toward Organic Synthesis, Canada |
| 1987 |
Organic Synthesis Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1987 |
Syntex Distinguished Lecturer, Colorado State University |
| 1987 |
Sheffield Stereochemistry Symposium, UK |
| 1987 |
Western Switzerland 3e Cycle Lecturer, Switzerland |
| 1988 |
Karl Pfister Visiting Professor, MIT, USA |
| 1988 |
First Organic Reaction Lecturer, USA. |
| 1988 |
NATO Conference on Stereochemisty, Greece |
| 1988 |
International Symposium of Acid-Base Catalysis, Sapporo |
| 1989 |
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Kyoto |
| 1989 |
Visiting Professor of Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg |
| 1989 |
11th International Symposium of Synthesis in Organic Chemistry, Oxford, UK |
| 1989 |
Progress and Prospects in Organic Synthesis, Lausanne and Champery, Switzerland |
| 1989 |
PAC Meeting, Honolulu |
| 1990 |
Fifth Japan-Korea Seminar on Organic Chemistry, Dae Jeon , Korea |
| 1990 |
The American Chemical Society, Aldrich Award Symposium, Boston |
| 1990 |
Midwestern Distinguished Lecturer, USA |
| 1990 |
Third Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium |
| 1990 |
Eighth International IUPAC Conference on Organic Synthesis, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1990 |
The Second International Symposium on the Chemical Synthesis of Antibiotics and the Related
Microbial Products, Oiso, Japan |
| 1990 |
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Hiroshima |
| 1990 |
Special Symposium of Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, Tokyo |
| 1991 |
Annual Meeting of Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, Tokyo |
| 1991 |
Symposium of Ohio State University, Recent Advances in Asymmetric Synthesis, USA |
| 1991 |
Syntex Distinguished Lecturer at University of Colorado, Boulder,
USA |
| 1991 |
First Anglo-Norman Organic Chemistry Colloquium, Rouen, France |
| 1991 |
Japan-US Seminar, Selectivity in Synthetic and Bio-organic Chemistry, Tokyo |
| 1991 |
Otsuka Symposium on Asymmetric Reactions and Molecular Recognition, Tokushima |
| 1991 |
The 1991 Josef Fried Symposium of Bioorganic Chemistry, Chicago |
| 1992 |
Annual Chemical Congress of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Manchester |
| 1992 |
Nozaki Conference, Yokohama |
| 1992 |
Gordon Conference (Organic Reaction Mechanism), New Hampton School |
| 1992 |
7th International Symposium on Molecular Recognition and Inclusion, Kyoto |
| 1992 |
6th Japan-Korea Organic Chemistry Symposium, Nagoya |
| 1992 |
First International Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Tokyo |
| 1992 |
7th Johnson Symposium, Stanford, U. S. A. |
| 1992 |
International Symposium on Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1992 |
Tsing-Hua Symposium on Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| 1993 |
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Tokyo |
| 1993 |
Bader Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, U. S. A. |
| 1993 |
Gordon Conference (Natural Product), New Hampton School, U. S. A. |
| 1993 |
Fourth International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination, Quebec, Canada |
| 1993 |
Prelog Medal Lecturer, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1994 |
Annual Meeting of New Swiss Chemical Society, Switzerland |
| 1994 |
Merck-Schuchardt Lectureship, Germany. |
| 1994 |
The 4th International Conference on Chemical Synthesis of Antibiotics and related Microbial Products, Nashville, U. S. A. |
| 1994 |
Pre-IUPAC International Symposium on Metal-Mediated Organic Synthesis, India |
| 1995 |
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Tokyo |
| 1995 |
Merck-Frosst Lecturer, Alberta University, Canada |
| 1995 |
Enantioselective C-C bond formation in synthesis, SCI, London, UK |
| 1995 |
SFC-Rhone Poulene Lecturer, France |
| 1996 |
Organic Synthesis Lecturer, University of California, Irvine |
| 1996 |
Annual Conference of Polymer Science, Nagoya, Japan |
| 1996 |
50th Anniversary Conference of Korean Chemical Society, Seoul, Korea |
| 1996 |
Fargo Conference on Main Group Chemistry, North Dakota, USA |
| 1996 |
ISCHIA Advanced School of Organic Chemistry, Ischia, Italy |
| 1997 |
Gilbert Stork Lecturer, Columbia University, USA |
| 1997 |
H.C. Brown Lecturer, Purdue University, USA |
| 1997 |
36th IUPAC Congress, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 1997 |
9th International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination, Nagoya, Japan |
| 1997 |
William G. Dauben Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 1997 |
Bio-Mega Lecturer, Montreal, Canada |
| 1997 |
5th Max Tishler Memorial Symposium, Tokyo |
| 1998 |
Max Tishler Prize Lecture, Harvard, USA |
| 1998 |
1998 Hofmann Distinguished Lecture, Imperial College, London, UK |
| 1998 |
12th IUPAC Conference on Organic Synthesis, Venice, Italy |
| 1998 |
9th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds, Hong Kong |
| 1999 |
Novertis Lectureship, Switzerland |
| 1999 |
37th IUPAC Congress, Berlin, Germany |
| 1999 |
218th National meeting of American Chemical Society, New Orleans, USA |
| 2000 |
Taiwan National Lectureship, Taiwan |
| 2000 |
Columbia IAP Lecturer, Columbia University, USA |
| 2000 |
Kharasch Lecturer, University of Chicago, USA |
| 2001 |
PAC meeting, Honolulu, USA |
| 2001 |
UCSD-Dupont symposium, La Jolla, USA |
| 2001 |
84th CSC Conference, Montreal, Canada |
| 2001 |
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Chiba, Japan |
| 2001 |
ICCOC-GTL-10, Bordeaux, France |
| 2002 |
The Nagoya COE-RCMS Conference, Japan |
| 2002 |
Cram Stereochemistry Symposium, UCLA, USA |
| 2002 |
BOSS IX Meeting, Namur, Belgium |
| 2002 |
Gordon Conference, Reaction and Processes, RI, USA |
| 2002 |
Oppolzer Lectures 2002, Geneve, Switzerland |
| 2003 |
Otto-Bayser Lecturer 2003, Cologne, Germany |
| 2003 |
15th International Symposium on Chirality, Shizuoka, Japan |
| 2003 |
18th International Symposium on Synthesis in Organic Chemistry, Cambridge, U. K. |
| 2003 |
Komppa Centenary Symposium, Espoo, Finland |
| 2003 |
Boehringer Ingelheim Lecturer, Alberta, Canada |
| 2004 |
The 17th Annual Organic Chemistry Day, Missouri, USA |
| 2004 |
2004 CU-Roche Colorado Symposium on Synthetic Organic Chemistry,Boulder, Colorado |
| 2004 |
10th Meeting of the French-American Chemical Society, Charleston, SC |
| 2004 |
CMDS Symposium, Seoul, Korea |
| 2004 |
The Fourth International Symposium on Chemistry and Biological Chemistry of Vanadium, Szged, Hungary |
| 2004 |
Pettit Centennial Lecturer, University of Texas |
| 2004 |
Merck Lecturer, University of Puerto Rico |
| 2005 |
125th Annual Meeting of Pharmaceutical Society in Japan |
| 2005 |
Distinguished Merck Frosst Lectureship, Canada |
| 2005 |
Novartis Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2005 |
OMCOS-13, Geneve, Switzerland |
| 2005 |
The 22nd Summer Seminar on Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan |
| 2005 |
Eli Lilly Lecturer, University of Pittsburg |
| 2005 |
International SFB-Symposium, Aachen, Germany |
| 2005 |
The 4th COE-Chem6 International Symposium, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 |
PAC Meeting, Inorganic and Polymer sections, Honolulu, USA |
| 2005 |
PAC Meeting, Polymer Chemistry, Honolulu, USA |
| 2006 |
COE meeting, Nagoya University, Nagoya Japan |
| 2006 |
Reilly Lecturer, University of Notre Dame |
| 2006 |
7th Annual Florida Heterocyclic Conference, Gainesville, USA |
| 2006 |
Appleton Lecturer, Brown University, USA |
| 2006 |
Eli Lilly Lecturer, Yale University, USA |
| 2006 |
Challenges in Contemporary Chemistry Symposium, University of Michigan |
| 2006 |
Banyu Symposium, Fukuoka, Japan |
| 2006 |
Balticum Orgnicum Syntheticum, Tallinn, Estonia |
| 2006 |
Organocatalysis in Organic Synthesis, Glasgow, UK |
| 2006 |
FrontChem2006, Zushi, Japan |
| 2006 |
American Chemical Society, National Meeting, San Francisco |
| 2006 |
5th International Symposium on Chemistry and Biological Chemistry of Vanadium, San Francisco |
| 2006 |
Inaugural Negishi-Brown Lecture, Purdue |
| 2006 |
Merck-Frosst Lecture, Univdersite de Montreal, Canada |
| 2006 |
Novartis Lecturer, Boston College, Boston |
| 2006 |
Karl-Ziegler-Professorship, Max Planck Institute, Germany |
| 2006 |
6th Tateshina conference on Organic Chemistry, Tateshina, Japan |
| 2006 |
10th International Kyoto conference on New Aspects of Organic Chemistry, Japan |
| 2006 |
Pierre Fabre Lecturer, French Chemical Society, Paris, France |
| 2007 |
American Chemical Society, National Meeting, Chicago |
| 2007 |
Organic Chemistry, present and future, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
| 2007 |
International Conference on Asymmetric Organocatalysis, Otsu, Japan |
| 2007 |
The 29th annual Princeton ACS Fall Organic Symposium, Princeton |
