Professor Tamio Hayashi

Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Education:

1970Bachelor, Kyoto University, Japan

1972Master, Kyoto University, Japan

1975Ph D., Kyoto University, Japan  (Professor M. Kumada)

1976-1977  Postdoctoral Fellow, Colorado State University, USA (Professor L. S. Hegedus)

Appointments: 

1975-1989  Research Associate, Department of Synthetic Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan

1989-1994  Professor, Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan

1994-present  Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan

Memberships:

American Chemical Society

The Chemical Society of Japan

The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan

Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

Catalysis Society of Japan

The Society of Silicon Chemistry, Japan

Editorial Activities:

Executive Board Editors for Tetrahedron Publications, 2006-present

Asian Regional Editor, Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 1990-present

Honorary Advisory Board, Synlett, 2000-present

Academic Advisory Board, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2000-present

Editorial Advisory Board, Organometallics, 2005-2007

Awards:

The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan, Award for Young Scientists, 1983 (Japan)

IBM Japan Science Prize, 1991 (Japan)

The Chemical Society of Japan Award, 2003 (Japan)

Thomson Scientific Research Front Award, 2004 (Japan)

Molecular Chirality Award, 2005 (Japan)

The Ryoji Noyori Prize, 2007 (The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan)

Author C. Cope Scholar Awards, 2008 (The American Chemical Society, USA)

Khwarizmi International Award, 2010 (IROST, Iran)

The Medal with Purple Ribbon (Shiju Hosho) 2010 (The Japanese Government)

Honors:

Wasserman Symposium, 1996-1997 Lecture in the Chemical Sciences Series, 1997 (Harvard University, USA)

2000-2001 Novartis Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, 2001 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Novartis Chemistry Lectureship 2001/2002 (Novartis, Switzerland)

The Second Annual Merck/Caltech Symposium on Organic Synthesis, 2003 (Caltech, USA)

Oppolzer Lectures 2003, 2003 (Université de Genève, Switzerland)

2004 Pfizer Symposium, 2004 (Harvard University, USA)

The 20th Annual W. S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry, 2005 (Stanford University, USA)

Morris S. Kharasch Visiting Professor, 2006 (The University of Chicago, USA)

2007 UC Irvine-Pfizer Symposium on Organic Synthesis, 2007 (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Boehringer Ingelheim Lecturer, 2007 (Université de Montréal, Canada)

Herbert C. Brown Lecturers, 2007 (Purdue University, USA)

The Pfizer & Sigma Aldrich Lecture, 2008 (University of Bristol, UK)

Research:

Professor Tamio Hayashi has published 370 original papers and the total citation number is around 24,400 (H-index 85) at September, 2011.  In ISI Highly Cited.comSM (a part of the ISI Web of Knowledge), the name of Tamio Hayashi has been listed since 2003, as one of the most highly cited 272 world chemists. 

His research interest is in development of new selective organic transformations catalyzed by transition metal complexes, especially catalytic asymmetric reactions.  He has studied the mechanism of organometallic reactions including transition metal-catalyzed organic reactions.  He has been very successful in design of conceptually new chiral ligands and their use for catalytic asymmetric reactions. 

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