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YAMAMOTO Hisashi
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| Title | Senior Research Professor |
|---|---|
| Belong to |
Peptide Research Center |
| Graduated | Harvard University, 1971 (Prof. E. J. Corey, Thesis Director) |
| Degree | Ph. D. |
| Field of Study | Organic chemistry, synthetic chemistry, biological related chemistry |
| Research, Studies | Reaction organic chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, complex organometallic catalyst, biological function related |
Academic Papers, Critique
[26] Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Kinetic Resolution via Amide Bond Formation, Shimoda, Y.; Yamamoto, H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 6855-6858 (2017)
[25] Catalytic Asymmetric Bromocyclization of Polyenes, Samanta, R. C.; Yamamoto, H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 1460-1463 (2017)
[24] Hydroxy-Directed Amidation of Carboxylic Acid Esters Using a Tantalum Alkoxide Catalyst, Tsuji, H.; Yamamoto, H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 14218-14221 (2016)
[23] Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of N-Chiral Amine Oxides, Bhadra, S.; Yamamoto, H. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55, 13043-13046 (2016)
[22] A Powerful Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyst for Enantioselective Mukaiyama–Mannich Reactions, Zhou, F.; Yamamoto, H. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55, 8970-8974 (2016)
[21] Design of a New Bimetallic Catalyst for Asymmtric Epoxidation and Sulfoxidation, Bhadra, S., Akakura, M.; Yamamoto, H., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 15612-15615. (2015)
[20] Catalytic Enantioselective Nitroso Diels-Alder Reaction, Maji, B.; Yamamoto, H., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 15957-15963 (2015).
[19] Gadolinium-Catalyzed Regio- and Enantioselective Aminolysis of Aromatic trans-2,3-Epoxy Sulfonamides, Wang, C.; Yamamoto, H., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 8760-8763 (2015).
[18] Chiral Bronsted Acid as a True Catalyst: Asymmetric Mukaiyama Aldol and Hosomi-Sakurai Allylation Reactions, Sai, M. Yamamloto, H., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137,7091-7094 (2015).
[17] Nickel-Catalyzed Regio- and Enantioselective Aminolysis of 3,4-Epoxy Alcohols, Wang, C.; Yamamoto, H., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 4308-4311 (2015).
[16] Tungsten catalyzed oxidation and ring opening to generate >99.9%ee product, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 1222-1225 (2014).
[15] Ten Years Research in Chicago, Tetrahedron, 69, 4503-4515 (2013).
[14] Rapid and Stereochemically Flexible Synthesis of Polypropionates: Super-Silyl-Governed Aldol Cascades. Angew. Chem. 124, 1978–1982 (2012).
[13] Lewis Acid Catalyzed Inverse-Electron-Demand Diels-Alder Reaction of Tropones. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 16628-16629 (2009).
[12] Dual-Activation Asymmetric Strecker Reaction of Aldimines and Ketimines Catalyzed by a Tethered Bis(8-quinolinolato) Aluminum Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 15118-15119 (2009).
[11] Cationic-Oxazaborolidine-Catalyzed Enantioselective Diels-Alder Reaction of ,β-Unsaturated Acetylenic Ketones. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48, 8060-8062 (2009).
[10] Catalytic Enantioselective Pudovik Reaction of Aldehydes and Aldimines with Tethers Bis(8-quinolinato) (TBOx) Aluminum Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 10521-10523 (2008).
[9] Regioselective and Asymetric Diels-Alder Reaction of 1- and 2-Substituted Cyclopentadienes Catalyzed by a Brønsted Acid Activated Chiral Oxazaborolidine, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 9536-9537 (2007).
[8] Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Silyl Enol Ethers Catalyzed by Tethered Bis(8-Quinolinolato) Aluminum Complexes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 742-743, (2007).
[7] Design of Chiral N-Triflyl Phosphoramide as a Strong Chiral Brønsted Acid and its application to Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reaction, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 9626 (2006).
[6] Brønsted Acid Catalysis of Achiral Enamine for Regio- and Enantioselective Nitroso Aldol Synthesis. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 1080 (2005).
[5] Oxazaborolidine-Derived Lewis Acid Assisted Lewis Acid as a Moisture-Tolerant Catalyst for Enantioselective Diels–Alder Reactions. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Enl., 44, 1484-1487 (2005).
[4] Designer Catalysis: Combined Acid Catalysis for Asymmetric Synthesis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 44, 1924-1942 (2005).
[3] Acyloxyborane: An activating device for carboxylic acids. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 110, 6254 (1988).
[2] Asymmetric hetero-Diels-Alder reaction catalyzed by chiral organoaluminum reagent. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 110, 310 (1988).
[1] Asymmetric cyclization of unsaturated aldehydes catalyzed by a chiral Lewis acid. Tetrahedron Lett, , 26, 5535, (1985).
Lectures, Symposium, Presentation
NITech International Symposium on Frontier Materials, Nagoya Insitute of Technology, 2016
Chiral China 2016, China, 2016
International Conference on Organic Synthesis at GDUT, Guangdong Uinversity, China, 2016
Pachifichem 2015, Honolulu, USA, 2015
IKOCK Symposium, Alkara, Spain, 2015
ELP Lectureship, Kyoto University, 2015
Negishi-Brown Lecturer, USA, 2015
Naito Symposium, Sapporo, Japan, 2015
Riken Symposium, Saitama, Japan, 2015
Kanagawa symposium, Kanagawa, Japan, 2015
WPI Lecture, Tohoku University, Japan, 2015
Tetrahedron Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 2015
International Conference of Catalysis, Chicago, USA, 2014
Gordon Conference, USA, 2014
Academia Sinica, Taipei, 2014
International Conference, Prague, 2013
25th Banyu Symposium, Sappro, Japan, 2013
International Conference of Catalysis, Cologne, 2013
Roche Lecture, Columbia University, 2012
BMS Lecture, Boston College, 2012
4th EurCheMS, Prague, Czech, 2012
Natural Product Symposium, Kyushu, Japan, 2012
Vertex Lecture, UCIrvine, 2012
Abbott Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, 2012
First Germany-Japan Organocatalytic Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, 2011
Ei-Ichi Negishi Nobel Prize Symposium, Purdue, IN, 2011
European Science Foundation, COST conference, Maratea, Italy, 2011
42nd National Organic Symposium, Princeton, 2011
First Mexican Meeting on Pure and Applied Chemistry, Mexico City, 2011
Gassman Lectureship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2011
19th Lilly symposium, Madrid, Spain, 2011
Frontier in Chemical Research Lecturere, Texas A&M, 2011
ISOm, Organocatalyst Symposium, Muelheim, Germany, 2010
93rd Canadian Chemistry Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2010
N. C. Yang Lecturer, Taipei, 2010
Burgenstock Conference, Guest of Honor, Brunnen, Switzerland, 2010
The AkzoNobel, Novartis and Shasun Lecture, Bristol, UK, 2010
The Chemical Record Lecturer, Osaka, Japan, 2010
KISPOC, Kyushu, Japan, 2009
Eminent Scholar Lecturer, The University of Arizona, Tucson, 2009
The H. Smith Broadbent Lecture, BYU, Salt Lake, 2009
13th Asian Chemical Congress, Shanghais, China, 2009
ACS meeting, Milwaukee, WI, 2009
Nanyang Tec. University Opening Symposium, Singapore, 2009
Tetrahedron Symposium, Paris, 2009
The Roche Lecturer, Scripps Institute, USA, 2009
The Gilman Lecturer, Iowa State University, 2009
The Lambert Lecture, Boston University, 2009
The Third Novel Chiral Chemistry, Japan 2009, Tokyo, 2009
Chicago Organic Chemistry Symposium, Northwestern University, 2009
LOST II, Alain Krief Symposium, Namur, Belgium, 2009
Lecturer of Institute of Academia Sinica, Taipei, 2008
International Conference on Asymmetric Catalysis, Kanazawa, Japan, 2008
Tarrant visiting professor of organic chemistry, University of Florida, 2008
Suzuki Kunio Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 2008
Banyu Foundation Symposium, Sapporo, Japan, 2008
FITS Symposium, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008
Eli Lilly Lecturer, University of Toronto, 2008
Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecturer, Berkeley, 2008
Roche Distinguished Lecturer, Colorado, 2008
Schulich Symposium on Asymmetric Catalysis, Haifa, Israel, 2008
The Japan Academy Prize Symposium, Riken, Japan, 2007
Organic Synthesis Mini Symposium, Chiba, 2007
The 5th Kitasato Chemistry Symposium, Tokyo, 2007
Invited Lecture Series, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, 2007
The 29th annual Princeton ACS Fall Organic Symposium, Princeton, 2007
International Conference on Asymmetric Organocatalysis, Otsu, Japan, 2007
Organic Chemistry, present and future, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 2007
American Chemical Society, National Meeting, Chicago, 2007
Pierre Fabre Lecturer, French Chemical Society, Paris, France, 2006
10th International Kyoto conference on New Aspects of Organic Chemistry, Japan, 2006
6th Tateshina conference on Organic Chemistry, Tateshina, Japan, 2006
Karl-Ziegler-Professorship, Max Planck Institute, Germany, 2006
Novartis Lecturer, Boston College, Boston, 2006
Merck-Frosst Lecture, Univdersite de Montreal, Canada, 2006
Inaugural Negishi-Brown Lecture, Purdue, 2006
5th International Symposium on Chemistry and Biological Chemistry of Vanadium, San Francisco, 2006
American Chemical Society, National Meeting, San Francisco, 2006
FrontChem2006, Zushi, Japan, 2006
Organocatalysis in Organic Synthesis, Glasgow, UK, 2006
Balticum Orgnicum Syntheticum, Tallinn, Estonia, 2006
Banyu Symposium, Fukuoka, Japan, 2006
Challenges in Contemporary Chemistry Symposium, University of Michigan, 2006
Eli Lilly Lecturer, Yale University, USA, 2006
Appleton Lecturer, Brown University, USA, 2006
7th Annual Florida Heterocyclic Conference, Gainesville, USA, 2006
Reilly Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, 2006
COE meeting, Nagoya University, Nagoya Japan, 2006
PAC Meeting, Polymer Chemistry, Honolulu, USA, 2005
PAC Meeting, Inorganic and Polymer sections, Honolulu, USA, 2005
The 4th COE-Chem6 International Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 2005
International SFB-Symposium, Aachen, Germany, 2005
Eli Lilly Lecturer, University of Pittsburg, 2005
The 22nd Summer Seminar on Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan, 2005
OMCOS-13, Genève, Switzerland, 2005
Novartis Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
Distinguished Merck Frosst Lectureship, Canada, 2005
125th Annual Meeting of Pharmaceutical Society in Japan, 2005
Pfizer Lecturer, Harvard University, 2005
Merck Lecturer, University of Puerto Rico, 2004
Pettit Centennial Lecturer, University of Texas, 2004
The Fourth International Symposium on Chemistry and Biological Chemistry of Vanadium, Szged, Hungary, 2004
CMDS Symposium, Seoul, Korea, 2004
10th Meeting of the French-American Chemical Society, Charleston, SC, 2004
2004 CU-Roche Colorado Symposium on Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Boulder, Colorado, 2004
The 17th Annual Organic Chemistry Day, Missouri, USA, 2004
Boehringer Ingelheim Lecturer, Alberta, Canada, 2003
Komppa Centenary Symposium, Espoo, Finland, 2003
18th International Symposium on Synthesis in Organic Chemistry, Cambridge, U. K., 2003
15th International Symposium on Chirality, Shizuoka, Japan, 2003
Otto-Bayer Lecturer 2003, Cologne, Germany, 2003
Oppolzer Lectures 2002, Genève, Switzerland, 2002
Gordon Conference, Reaction and Processes, RI, USA, 2002
BOSS IX Meeting, Namur, Belgium, 2002
Cram Stereochemistry Symposium, UCLA, USA, 2002
The Nagoya COE-RCMS Conference, Japan, 2002
ICCOC-GTL-10, Bordeaux, France, 2001
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Chiba, Japan, 2001
84th CSC Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2001
UCSD-Dupont symposium, La Jolla, USA, 2001
PAC meeting, Honolulu, USA, 2001
Kharasch Lecturer, University of Chicago, USA, 2000
Columbia IAP Lecturer, USA, 2000
Taiwan National Lectureship, Taiwan, 2000
218th National meeting of American Chemical Society, New Orleans, USA, 1999
37th IUPAC Congress, Berlin, Germany, 1999
Novartis Lectureship, Switzerland, 1999
9th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds, Hong Kong, 1998
12th IUPAC Conference on Organic Synthesis, Venice, Italy, 1998
1998 Hofmann Distinguished Lecture, Imperial College, London, UK, 1998
Max Tishler Prize Lecture, Harvard, USA, 1998
5th Max Tishler Memorial Symposium, Tokyo, 1997
Bio-Mega Lecturer, Montreal, Canada, 1997
William G. Dauben Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 1997
9th International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination, Nagoya, Japan, 1997
36th IUPAC Congress, Geneva, Switzerland, 1997
H.C. Brown Lecturer, Purdue University, USA, 1997
Gilbert Stork Lecturer, Columbia University, New York, USA, 1997
ISCHIA Advanced School of Organic Chemistry, Ischia, Italy, 1996
Fargo Conference on Main Group Chemistry, North Dakota, USA, 1996
50th Anniversary Conference of Korean Chemical Society, Seoul, Korea, 1996
Annual Conference of Polymer Science, Nagoya, Japan, 1996
Organic Synthesis Lecturer, University of California, Irvine, 1996
SFC-Rhone Poulene Lecturer, France, 1995
Enantioselective C-C bond formation in synthesis, SCI, London, UK, 1995
Merck-Frosst Lecturer, Alberta University, Canada, 1995
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Tokyo, 1995
Pre-IUPAC International Symposium on Metal-Mediated Organic Synthesis, India, 1994
The 4th International Conference on Chemical Synthesis of Antibiotics and related Microbial Products, Nashville, USA, 1994
Merck-schuchardt Lectureship, Germany, 1994
Annual Meeting of New Swiss Chemical Society, Switzerland, 1994
Prelog Medal Lecture, Zurich, Switzerland, 1993
Fourth International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination, Quebec, Canada, 1993
Gordon Conference (Natural Product), New Hampton School, USA, 1993
Bader Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 1993
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Tokyo, 1993
Tsing-Hua Symposium on Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 1992
International Symposium on Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992
7th Johnson Symposium, Stanford, CA., 1992
First International Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Tokyo, 1992
6th Japan-Korea Organic Chemistry Symposium, Nagoya, 1992
7th International Symposium on Molecular Recognition and Inclusion, Kyoto, 1992
Gordon Conference (Organic Reaction Mechanism), New Hampton School, 1992
Nozaki Conference, Yokohama, 1992
Annual Chemical Congress of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Manchester, 1992
The 1991 Josef Fried Symposium of Bioorganic Chemistry, Chicago, 1991
Otuka Symposium on Asymmetric Reactions and Molecular Recognition, Tokushima, 1991
Japan-US Seminar, Selectivity in Synthetic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Tokyo, 1991
First Anglo-Norman Organic Chemistry Colloquium, Rouen, France, 1991
Syntex Distinguished Lecturer at University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, 1991
Symposium of Ohio State University, Recent Advances in Asymmetric Synthesis, USA, 1991
Annual Meeting of Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, Tokyo, 1991
Special Symposium of Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, Tokyo, 1990
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Hiroshima, 1990
The Second International Symposium on the Chemical Synthesis of Antibiotics and Related Microbial Products, Oiso, Japan, 1990
Eighth International IUPAC Conference on Organic Synthesis, Helsinki, Finland, 1990
Third Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, 1990
Midwestern Distinguished Lecturer, USA, 1990
The American Chemical Society, Aldrich Award Symposium, Boston, 1990
Fifth Japan-Korea Seminar on Organic Chemistry, Dae Jeon , Korea, 1990
PAC Meeting, Honolulu, 1989
Progress and Prospects in Organic Synthesis, Lausanne and Champery, Switzerland, 1989
11th International Symposium of Synthesis in Organic Chemistry, Oxford, UK, 1989
Visiting Professor of Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, 1989
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Kyoto, 1989
International Symposium of Acid-Base Catalysis, Sapporo, 1988
NATO Conference on Stereochemistry, Greece, 1988
IUPAC Conference on Natural Product, Kyoto, 1988
First Organic Reaction Lecturer, USA, 1988
Karl Pfizer Visiting Professor, MIT, 1988
Western Switzerland 3e Cycle Lecturer, 1987
Sheffield Stereochemistry Symposium, UK, 1987
Syntex Distinguished Lecturer, Colorado State University, 1987
Organic Synthesis Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
IUPAC Conference on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Toward Organic Synthesis, Canada, 1987
Annual Meeting of Agricultural Society of Japan, Tokyo, 1987
Hoechst Conference on Stereochemistry, Germany, 1986
Gordon Conference on Stereochemistry, USA, 1986
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Korea, Seoul, 1986
Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Tokyo, 1985
Euchem Stereochemistry Conference at Burgenstock, Switzerland, 1985
Annual Meeting of Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, Tokyo, 1984
IUPAC Conference on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Toward Organic Synthesis, France, 1983
IUPAC Conference on Organic Synthesis, Tokyo, 1982
PAC Meeting, Honolulu, USA, 1979
Pacific Coast Lecturer, USA, 1979
Awards
The Roger Adams Award, 2017
Fujiwara Prize, 2012
Noyori Prize, 2011
Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011
Grand Prize of Synthetic Organic Chemistry of Japan, 2009
ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 2009
Honorary Member of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2008
The Japan Academy Award, 2007, Humboldt Research Award, 2007
The Karl-Ziegler Professorship, 2006
Tetrahedron Prize, 2006
Yamada Prize, 2004
Molecular Chirality Award, 2003, Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003
Tetrahedron Chair, 2002. Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (Japan), 2002
Max-Tishler Prize, 1998, Le Grand Prix de la Fondation Maison de la Chimie, 2002
The Chemical Society of Japan Award, 1995. Toray Science and Technology Award, 1997
Prelog Medal, 1993, Merck-Schuchardt Lectureship, 1994
IBM Science Award, 1988, Houkou Award, 1991, Chunichi Award, 1992
The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemist, 1977
