Organic Chemistry Seminar: Junichiro Yamaguchi, Waseda University
Organic Chemistry Seminar: Professor Junichiro Yamaguchi, Waseda University (Host: Noah Burns)
About the Seminar
"Making bonds by breaking bonds: An unconventional approach to making molecules"
As we are in the business of making molecules, forming and breaking bonds are like two sides of the same coin: the construction of molecules with the desired architecture necessitates the ability to break specific bonds at will. We aim to break stable carbon–carbon bonds in order to create new bonds, and we will strive to design efficient catalysts to accelerate this process.
Currently, this applicant is focusing on parts of my research to a “bond-breaking coupling reaction” which is breaking ester sp2C–C bonds and sp3 C-C bonds, followed by coupling with nucleophiles. In this seminar, I would like to talk mainly two bond-breaking reaction, which are recently discovered in our laboratory.
About the Speaker
Career : 2007 Ph.D, Tokyo University of Science, Japan (Professor Yujiro Hayashi)
2007 Postdoc, The Scripps Research Institute (with Professor. Phil S. Baran)
2008 Assistant Professor, Nagoya University (with Professor Kenichiro Itami)
2012 Associate Professor, Nagoya University
2016 Associate Professor (PI), Waseda University
2018 Professor, Waseda University
Awards : 2018 The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Merits for Chemical Education for 2017
2017 NISTEP award 2017
2017 FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award
2017 The Young Scientists’ Prize from MEXT
2014 Asian Core Lectureship Award, China and Thailand
2014 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award
2013 Banyu Chemist Award 2013 (BCA)
2013 The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Distinguished Young Chemists
2012 The Chemical Society of Japan Lecture Award for Young Chemists
2011 Young Scientist’s Research Award in Natural Product Chemistry, Japan
2009 Teijin Pharma Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan