报告题目：Methodology Development toward Protecting Group-Minimal Synthesis

报告人：Prof. Motomu Kanai

报告时间：2018年9月19日（周三）上午10:00

报告地点：化学楼二楼一号会议室

邀请人：钟芳锐教授

报告人简介：

Prof. Motomu Kanai received his B.S. degree from The University of Tokyo in 1989. After three years’ research with Professors K. Koga in the same university, he went to Osaka University in 1992 and pursued graduate study under the guidance of Professor K. Tomioka. After earning his Ph.D. degree, in 1996, he took a postdoctoral position in the laboratory of Professor Laura L. Kiessling at University of Wisconsin. Since 1997, he has started working at The University of Tokyo in the research group of Professor M. Shibasaki. In 2010, he became a professor in The University of Tokyo.

Research interest:

1. Development of new catalysis to facilitate complex molecule synthesis.
2. Clean, robust, and concise synthesis of pharmaceuticals.

3. Mechanistic studies of new catalyses.