I was born in Kyoto, on 23 July 1968. I grew up in my hometown
and graduated Rakusei High School in 1987.
Then I spent the next 9 years at
Kyoto University. In between playing
the viola at the Kyoto University Symphony Orchestra,
I worked on my PhD in chemistry with the late Prof. Hidemasa Takaya
doing research on organosilicon compounds as reagents for organic chemistry.
I finished this work in the Spring of 1996 and left Kyoto to do some Post-doctoral
research work at the ETH in Zurich with
Prof.
Francois Diederich.
In the spring of 1997, I joined the faculty of
Titech as an assistant professor
and started in the Prof. Takao Ikariya's group
to design new noble-metal protic amine complexes with a half-sandwich structure, aiming
at developing unprecedented catalytic reduction of polarized C-O bonds with molecular
dihydrogen. As a result, a number of environmentally benign and straightforward catalytic
hydrogenation of carboxylic acid derivatives as well as many oxidative transformations
of alcohols have been developed by talented graduate students at S1-570@Titech, whose
enthusiasm for chemistry and cordial contribution promoted me as an associate professor
in the group headed by Prof. Katsuhiko Tomooka at IMCE@Kyushu University in the summer of 2009.
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