Professor
uo[at]ims.ac.jp
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Doctor of Pharm.
--Reseach Field:
Complex Catalysts,
Nano Catalysts
--Professor, Institute for
Molecular Science
--Professor,
The Graduate University for
Advanced Studies
Let’s explore new scientific fields!
Molecules are the smallest units that we can handle. Chemists have obligation as well as pleasure to design and produce molecules showing various functions. In particular, the organic synthetic chemistry in 20th century produced so many organic products such as polymers, drugs, liquid crystals, fuels, and so on.
"Organic" means "Organism". All organic compounds originally come from living organisms. We are challenging to establish the new ideal organic reaction systems which realize environmental friendly, highly efficient, easy, and rapid organic transformations with learning rationality of chemical phenomena in life and nature.
We focus not only the reaction sites in molecules but also the whole reaction systems involving reaction media and substrates to design new reaction systems for ideal molecular transformations.
Based on our methodology, we have successfully developed new aqueous reaction systems using immobilized catalysts and metal nanoparticles. Nowadays, leading edge of spectroscopic techniques enables us to confront the complex chemical reaction systems which hve been considered difficult to understand in molecular level. Not as a exsisting study like world-record- competition, let's explore a totally new science field together. There are still so many more to explore in organic chemistry.
Let's enjoy a new organic chemistry together!
Career
Born in 1961; B.S. Hokkaido Univ. (1984); M.S. Hokkaido Univ. (1986); Ph.D. Hokkaido Univ. (1990); Research Associate, Hokkaido Univ. (1988-1990); Assistant Professor, Hokkaido Univ. (1990-1995); Research Associate, Columbia Univ. USA（1994-1995); Lecture, Kyoto Univ. (1995-1997); Professor, Nagoya City Univ. (1997-2000); Professor, Institue for Molecular Science (2000-Present)
Reserch Project Leader, JST-CREST on Green Catalyst Project（2002-2008); Reserch Team Leader, RIKEN（2007-2018); Reserch Project Leader, NEDO on Green Chemical Processes（2008-2012); Depty Reserch Project Leader, JST-CREST on Elemental Strategy（2011-2016）; Reserch Project Leader, JST-Accel（2015-2019）; Editor for Thieme-SYNLETT and SYNFACTS, Advisory Board for Tetrahedron Asymmetry
