Keiji MARUOKA (Professor)
- Field of Expertise:
- Organic Chemistry,
- Organic Synthesis,
- Organocatalytic Chemistry
- Research Interests:
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- Design of chiral phase transfer catalysts for useful amino acid synthesis
- Design of high-performance organocatalysts for selective organic synthesis
- Chemistry of bidentate Lewis acids and its synthetic application
- Recent Papers:
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- Y. Kawamata, T. Hashimoto, and K. Maruoka, “A Chiral Electrophilic Selenium Catalyst for Highly Enantioselective Oxidative Cyclization”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 5206 (2016).
- S. Shirakawa, S. Liu, S. Kaneko, Y. Kumatabara, A. Fukuda, Y. Omagari, and K. Maruoka, “Tetraalkylammonium Salts as Hydrogen-Bonding Catalysts”,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 15767 (2015).
- T. Hashimoto, A. O. Galvez, and K. Maruoka, “Boronic Acid-Catalyzed, Highly Enantioselective Aza-Michael Additions of Hydroxamic Acid to Quinone Imine Ketals”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 16016 (2015).
- S. A. Moteki, A. Usui, S. Selvakumar, T. Zhang, and K. Maruoka,“Metal-Free C-H Bond Activation of Branched Aldehydes with a Hypervalent
Iodine(III) Catalyst under Visible-Light Photolysis: Successful Trapping with Electron-Deficient Olefins”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53, 11060 (2014).
- T. Hashimoto, Y. Kawamata, and K. Maruoka, “An Organic Thiyl Radical Catalysed Enantioselective Cyclization”, Nature Chem., 6, 702 (2014).
- T. Kano, F. Shirozu, and K. Maruoka, “Metal-Free Enantioselective Hydroxyamination of Aldehydes with Nitrosocarbonyl Compounds Catalyzed by an Axially Chiral Amine”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 18036 (2013).
- T. Hashimoto, Y. Takiguchi, and K. Maruoka, “Catalytic Asymmetric Three-Component 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of Aldehydes, Hydrazides, and Alkynes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135,11473 (2013).
- T. Kano, Y. Hayashi, and K. Maruoka, “Construction of a Chiral Quaternary Carbon Center by Catalytic Asymmetric Alkylation of 2-Arylcyclohexanones under Phase-Transfer Conditions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 7134 (2013).
- T. Kano, F. Shirozu, M. Akakura, and K. Maruoka, “Powerful Amino Diol Catalyst for Effecting the Direct Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Aldehydes to Acrylates”,J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 16068 (2012).
- T. Kano, R. Sakamoto, M. Akakura, and K. Maruoka, “Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Vicinal Diamines by Organocatalytic Asymmetric Mannich Reaction of N-Protected Aminoacetaldehydes: Formal Synthesis of (–)-Agelastatin A”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134,7516 (2012).
- Education:
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B.S. |
Department of Industrial Chemistry, School of Engineering, Kyoto University 1976 |
Ph.D. |
Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii 1980 |
- Professional Appointments:
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1980—1985 |
Assistant Professor School of Engineering, Nagoya University
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1985—1989 |
Lecturer School of Engineering, Nagoya University
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1990—1995 |
Associate Professor School of Engineering, Nagoya University
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1995—2000 |
Professor Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
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2000—2001 |
Professor Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University and Hokkaido University
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2001—present |
Professor Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University |
2009—present |
Hold “Organocatalytic Chemistry Special Laboratory” |
- Awards:
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1985 |
The Japan Chemical Society Award for Young Chemist |
2000 |
The Inoue Prize for Science |
2001 |
The Ichimura Prize for Science |
2003 |
Japan Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award |
2004 |
Nagoya Silver Medal |
2006 |
The Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award |
2006 |
Award by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
2007 |
The Japan Chemical Society Award |
2007 |
Molecular Chirality Award |
2007/2008 |
Novartis Lectureship Award |
2010 |
The Chunichi Cultural Prize |
2011 |
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award |
2011 |
Medal with Purple Ribbon (National Prize) |
2011 |
Humboldt Research Award |
2012 |
Toray Science and Technology Prize |
2012 |
The Kyoto Shimbun Award for the Arts, Science and Culture |
2016 |
Ryoji Noyori Prize |
2002—present |
Editorial Advisory Board of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry |
2005—2007 |
Board of Director of Journal of the Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan |
2005—present |
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry |
2006—present |
Editorial Advisory Board of Chemistry: An Asian Journal |
2006—2007 |
Editorial Advisory Board of Chemical Communications |
2007—present |
Editorial Board of Chemical Communications |
2007—present |
Editorial Advisory Board of The Open Organic Chemistry Journal |
2009—present |
Editorial Advisory Board of Accounts of Chemical Research |
2011—present |
Editor of The Chemical Record |
2011—present |
Editorial Advisory Board of Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis |
2012—present |
Regional Editor of Tetrahedron Letters |
2012—present |
Co-Chairperson and Editor of Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry |
2013—present |
Exective Board Member of The Chemical Society of Japan |
2014—present |
Editorial Advisory Board of Chemical Communications |
2014—present |
The Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India |
2017—present |
Vice-President of The Chemical Society of Japan |
- Group-Project Leader of the Scientific Research on Priority Areas “Advanced Molecular Transformations of Carbon Resources” (Term: October 2005 ~ March 2009)
- Leader of the Specially Promoted Research "High-Performance Organocatalyst Project" (Term: May 2009 ~ March 2014)
- Leader of the Scientific Research (S) "Next-Generation Organocatalyst Project" (Term: May 2014 ~ March 2019)
- Leader of the Scientific Research on Priority Areas"High-Performance Hybrid Catalyst System" (Term: July 2017 ~ March 2022)
- Contact Information:
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Phone: 81(Japan)-75-753-4041
Fax: 81(Japan)-75-753-4041
E-mail: maruoka + @kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp
- Link:
- Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory (internal link)
Maruoka Group web site
This page was last modified on 05 April 2018.
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