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| 2025.7.11 | Prof. Yoichiro Kuninobu from Kyushu University visited our lab and gave a talk on "Development of Site Selective C–H Transformations Enabled by Noncovalent Interactions" photo |
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| 2025.6.7 | We went on a lab trip to Mt. Takao. photo |
| 2025.4.1 | Two new members joined our team: Dr. Suvankar Debbarma as a postdoctoral researcher and Sho Hamada as a student trainee. Welcome! |
| 2025.3.19 | Prof. Debabrata Maiti from IIT Bombay, India visited our lab and gave a talk on "Unlocking new chemical space via selective catalysis" photo |
| 2025.3.7 | Jayakumar Sekar received the Saitama University Student Award. photo |
| 2025.2.25 | Farewell party for Takahashi and Relam. photo |
| 2024.11.22 | Relam Mohamed photo and Jayakumar Sekar photo received the Best Poster Award at the 27th Interdisciplinary Exchange Evening. |
| 2024.10.7 | Farewell party for Dr. Pinaki De, who goes back to India to join a company. Many thanks for everything! photo |
| 2024.9.30 | One-day experiments with Omiya Kita High School students. |
| 2024.9.11 | Jayakumar Sekar received the best poster award at the 70th Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, Japan. photo |
| 2024.8.8 | Prof. Marco Di Giovannantonio from CNR–ISM, Italy visited our lab and gave a talk on "On-Surface Synthesis: What Happens Behind the Scenes?" photo |
| 2024.7.24 | Student members of the Chemical Society of Japan visited our lab. link |
| 2024.4.22 | Our recent research result was highlighted by Nikkan Kogyo newspaper. link |
| 2024.4.18 | Dr. Ilies and the Team were presented in "Unsung Heroes in RIKEN CSRS" movie. YouTube |
| 2024.4.1 | Three new members joined our team: Dr. Justin Lamb as postdoctoral researcher, Hank Okuyama as student trainee, and Ryoichiro Nagaya as part-time worker. Welcome! |
| 2024.3.27 | Farewell party for Dr. Yushu Jin, who was appointed assistant professor at Tokyo University of Science. Congratulations! photo |
| 2024.2.28 | The ambassador of India to Japan visited our lab. photo |
| 2024.1.9 | The borylated SpiroBipyridine "roof" ligand we used for meta-selective borylation of arenes (Science 2022, 375, 658) is now available from TCI. |
| 2023.12.4 | Dr. Asako received The Asian Core Program Lectureship Award, for his work on "Molybdenum-Quinone-Catalyzed Diazo-Free Generation of Carbenes via Two-Fold Cleavage of Inert Bonds". Congratulations! |
| 2023.10.20 | Justin Lamb joined our team as a student trainee (Ph.D.) from Sophia University. |
| 2023.10.10 | Prof. Florentina Neatu from The National Institute of Material Physics, Romania visited our lab and gave a talk on "Surface modification of materials to develop new heterogeneous catalysts". photo |
| 2023.10.2 | Jayakumar Sekar joined our team as a student trainee (Ph.D.) from Saitama University. |
| 2023.9.26 | Prof. Dan Pantos from University of Bath visited our lab and gave a talk on "Chirality and Structural Divergence in Interlocked and Tangled Molecules". photo |
| 2023.8.24 | Students from the newspaper club of Matsuyama High School visited our lab and interviewed Dr. Ilies. photo |
| 2023.8.1 | Akash Tathe joined the Ilies Team as a postdoctoral researcher. |
| 2023.6.20 | One-day experiments with Omiya Kita High School students. |
| 2023.6.1 | Relam Mohamed was selected for the CSRS Student Support Program. |
| 2023.3.23 | Dr. Asako received The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists for 2022, for his work on "Exploration of Organosodium Chemistry and Development of Organic Reactions through Twofold Cleavage and Selective Cleavage of Inert Bonds". Congratulations! |
| 2023.3.22 | Dr. Ilies, Dr. Asako, and Dr. Jin received the RIKEN BAIHO Award (RIKEN Excellent Achievement Award). photo |
| 2023.3.13 | Prof. Gregory Perry from University of Southampton visited our lab and gave a talk on "Sulfur Reagents and Carboxylating Agents for Organic Synthesis". photo |
| 2023.2.17 | Dr. Asako and Dr. Takahashi received the Best Poster Award at the 26th Interdisciplinary Exchange Evening. photo |
| 2023.1.27 | Dr. Asako's proposal was selected for the Fusion Oriented Research for Disruptive Science and Technology (FOREST) funding program. link |
| 2023.1.13 | Dr. Asako received Thieme Chemistry Journals Award. link |
| 2022.12.16 | Prof. Marco Bandini from University of Bologna visited our lab and gave a talk on "Carbo- and nickel-catalyzed CO2 valorization: new perspectives in organic synthesis". photo |
| 2022.12.1 | Relam Mohamed joined our team as a student trainee from Saitama University. |
| 2022.11.25 | Prof. Eva Hevia from University of Bern visited our lab and gave a talk on "Tailoring Organosodium Reagents for Arene Functionalisation". photo |
| 2022.9.21 | Farewell party for Dr Okamoto. photo Good luck at Hokkaido University! |
| 2022.7.5 | Prof. Todd Hyster from Cornell University visited our lab and gave a talk on "Photoenzymatic Catalysis - Using Light to Reveal New Enzyme Functions". photo |
| 2022.5.9 | Students from Kaisei visited our lab. |
| 2022.4.21 | Dr. Takahashi and Dr. Asako received the 2021 CSRS Incentive Award for their work on "Sustainable Organic Synthesis Using Sodium Dispersion". |
| 2022.4.1 | Dr. Ikko Takahashi was appointed Special Postdoctoral Researcher. |
| 2022.3.29 | Farewell party for Nagata. photo |
| 2022.2.11 | Press release about our work (link here) on the design of new ligands for selective functionalization of organic molecules. link |
| 2022.2.4 | Prof. Rui Shang from the University of Tokyo gave a lecture on "Iron-catalysis for and photocatalysis inspired by development of organic electronic materials". Many thanks, and hope to do it face-to-face next time! |
