News

 

2019.11.20

A group of international students from the Tonen International Scholarship Foundation visited our lab.

2019.11.13

Our book on C-H bond activation was published (in Japanese).

2019.11.06

Dr. Asako received The Best Presentation Award at the CSRS Interim Progress Report.

2019.10.08

Dr. Ilies gave a lecture on "Development of New Reactions Using Molybdenum Catalysis" at the 2nd Seminar of the Pioneering Project: Chemical Probe.

2019.07.04

Dr. Ilies gave a poster presentation on “C–H Activation Using Base Metal Catalysis" at the 47th Naito Conference on C–H Bond Activation and Transformation.

2019.07.03

Dr. Asako gave a lecture on “Directed Retro-Cyclopropanation with Metal-Quinone Complexes” at the 23rd International Symposium on Olefin Metathesis and Related Chemistry (ISOM XXIII).

2019.07.01

Dr. Ilies gave a lecture on "Multifold C-H Activation Using Iron Catalysis" at the Hokkaido Summer Symposium on Catalysis for Organic Synthesis

2019.06.27

Prof. Stephen Thomas of Edinburgh University visited our lab, and gave a lecture on "Simplifying Earth-Abundant Catalysis".

2019.06.21

Dr. Ilies gave a lecture on “Development of Catalytic Reactions with Base Metals: The Agony and the Ecstasy" at the 14th Riken Symposium on Organic Synthesis Frontiers. 

2019.04.22

Dr. Asako received a presentation award at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan.

2019.04.01

Hanami (cherry blossoms viewing) party!

2019.04.01

Masaya Nagata (Tokyo University of Science) and Takafumi Kobayashi (Okayama University) joined our team as trainees. Welcome!

2019.04.01

Dr. Ikko Takahashi joined our team as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

2019.04.01

Dr. Sobi Asako was appointed Senior Research Scientist. Congratulations!

2019.03.27

Dr. Ilies received a letter of apppreciation from RIKEN President Matsumoto. 

2019.02.26

Prof. Jun Okuda of RWTH Aachen University visited our lab, and gave a lecture on "Homogeneous Catalysis by Molecular Hydrides of Alkaline Earth Metals".

2019.02.22

Prof. Shaolin Zhu of Nanjing University visited our lab, and gave a lecture on "NiH-Catalyzed Remote Hydrofunctionalization of Alkenes". 

2019.02.20

Dr. Nobuyoshi Yasuda visited our lab, and gave a lecture on "Scientific Heritage of Merck Research Laboratories".

2019.01.28

Prof. Hayato Tsuji of Kanagawa University visited our lab, and gave a lecture on "Emergent of Cryogenic Phenomena at Ambient Temperature using Rigid Planar Carbon-bridged Oligo(phenylenevinylene)s (COPVs)". 

2018.12.14

Year-end party with pizza, Indian and Ukrainian food, and special guests.

2018.12.03

Dr. Boobalan Ramadoss joined our team as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

2018.11.04

Dr. Ilies received the Lectureship Award from the Asian CORE Program / Advanced Research Network.

2018.11.02

Dr. Ilies gave a lecture on "C-H Activation with Base Metals"

2018.11.01

Dr. Olena Kuleshova joined our team as a JSPS postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

2018.10.23

Dr. Ilies gave a lecture on "Challenges in Iron-Catalyzed C-H Activation" at The 8th CSJ Chemistry Festa  

2018.10.01

Dr. Sobi Asako (assistant professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Okayama University) joined our team as a visiting researcher. Welcome! 

2018.10.01

Dr. Takumi Yoshida joined our team as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

2018.10.01

Naoki Matsushita (MS student, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo) joined our team as a trainee. Welcome!

2018.09

Our collaboration with Towa Pharmaceutical on the development of the kilogram-scale iron-catalyzed enantioselective synthesis of esomeprazole was published in ACS Catal. 

2018.08.30

Dr. Ilies gave a lecture on "Earth Abundant Metal-Catalyzed C–H Functionalization" at The Fourth International Symposium on C–H Activation (ISCHA2018)  

2018.07.20

The construction of the first lab finished. Ready to start experiments! 

2018.06.28

Ochi moved to the University of Chicago to pursue his Ph.D. with Prof. Guangbin Dong photo

2018.06.03

Dr. Ilies gave a lecture on "Catalysis with Earth Abundant Transition Metals" at the Asian Workshop of Experiment and Theory in Quantum Beam Molecular Sciences, held at Ibaraki University. 

2018.05.28

Dr. Ilies gave a lecture on "Iron Likes Single Electron Transfer" at the 1st Sino-Japanese Symposium on Catalysis for Precision Synthesis, held at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.  photo

2018.05.07

Happy birthday Dr. Ilies! 

2018.05.01

Yoshida’s paper on silylation of aryl halides was published in Org. Lett.

2018.04

Takumi Yoshida was awarded the JSPS DC2 fellowship. Congratulations!

2018.04.19

Happy birthday Yoshida! 

2018.04.04

Ilies Team kick off party. 

2018.04.02

The Advanced Organic Synthesis Research Team started its journey! 

2018.03.23

Farewell party with former Dr. Ilies' students at UTokyo. 

2018.03.22

Dr. Ilies gave a lecture on "How is Research in Japan Perceived Internationally?” at the Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan. link  photo