Mukaiyama Award Recipients

The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan

Mukaiyama Award Recipients

YEAR 　2012　2011　2010　2009　2008　2007　2006　2005

2012	Professor Jin-Quan Yu	Professor Jin-Quan Yu, The Scripps Research Institute USA
2012		Contributions; the development of catalytic C-H activation reactions directed by weak coordination and their applications as new disconnections for organic synthesis; Discovery of ligand-accelerated and enantioselective C-H activation reactions.
2012	Professor Ken Tanaka	Professor Ken Tanaka, Department of Applied Chemistry Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
2012		Contributions; the development of enantioselective cycloaddition and aromatization reactions using chiral cationic transition-metal complexes as catalysts. These processes enable the catalytic enantioselective construction of non-centrochirality as well as centrochirality.

2011	Professor Dean Toste	Professor Dean Toste, Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley, USA
2011		Contributions; the discovery and development of catalysts and catalyzed reactions, especially those based on gold, and applications in organic synthesis and asymmetric catalysis including the use of chiral anions.
2011	Professor Fumitoshi Kakiuchi	Professor Fumitoshi Kakiuchi, Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science and Technology Keio University, Japan
2011		Contributions; the development of new methods for highly efficient, catalytic, selective functionalization of unreactive carbon-hydrogen and carbon-heteroatom bonds and the elucidation of their reaction mechanisms.

2010	Professor Michael J. Krische	Professor Michael J. Krische, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, USA
2010		Contributions; the first hydrogen-mediated C-C bond formations beyond alkene hydroformylation. These processes define a departure from stoichiometric organometallic reagents in carbonyl addition and, under transfer hydrogenation conditions, enable carbonyl addition directly from the alcohol oxidation level.
2010	Professor Masahiro Terada	Professor Masahiro Terada, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Japan
2010		Contributions; the development of novel axially chiral Bronsted acids and bases as efficient enantioselective catalysts for a variety of carbon-carbon bond and carbon-heteroatom bond forming reactions.

2009	Professor Justin Du Bois	Professor Justin Du Bois, Department of Chemistry,Stanford University, USA
2009		Contributions: The development of novel oxidation processes for the selective modification of unsaturated C-H bonds and the demonstration of the power of these methods to alter the manner in which complex natural products are assembled.
2009	Professor Kazuaki Ishihara	Professor Kazuaki Ishihara, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan
2009		Contributions: the rational design of highly functional acid-base combined catalysts which are classified into acid-base combined salt catalysts, acid-base conjugate catalysts, and acid-base non-conjugate catalysts

2008	Professor John F. Hartwig	Professor John F. Hartwig, Department of Chemistry University of Illinois, USA
2008		Contributions; the discoveries, developments, and mechanistic insights into new classes of catalytic processes, including coupling reactions, C-H bond functionalizations, hydroaminations, and enantioselective substitution reactions.

2008	Professor Kyoko Nozaki	Professor Kyoko Nozaki, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan
2008		Contributions; the development of new catalysts for the synthesis of structurally well-controlled organic molecules: from small molecules to polymers

2007	Professor David W. C. MacMillan	Professor David W. C. MacMillan, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
2007		Contributions: the introduction of new catalysis concepts for asymmetric synthesis including the generalization of organocatalysis, iminium catalysis, organo-cascade catalysis and SOMO catalysis

2007	Professor Keiji Tanino	Professor Keiji Tanino, Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
2007		Contributions: the development of new methods for the total synthesis of natural products having a polycyclic carbon skeleton (e.g., coriolin, ingenol and norzoanthamine) based on carbocation chemistry and organometallic chemistry

2006	Professor Gregory C. Fu,	Professor Gregory C. Fu, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
2006		Contributions: the development of new methods for carbon-carbon bond formation (e.g., cross-coupling reactions) and the design of new chiral catalysts for asymmetric synthesis:

2006	Professor Michinori Suginome	Professor Michinori Suginome, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan.
2006		Contributions: the development of new methods for the catalytic synthesis of organoboron and organosilicon compounds (e.g., bis-silylation, silaboration and cyanoboration reactions) and of their utilization in organic synthesis

2005	Professor Dr. Alois Fuerstner	University of Dortmund and Director at the Max-Planck-Institute fuer Kohlenforschung, Muelheim/Ruhr, Germany
2005		Professor Fuerstner has made outstanding contributions to development of novel organometallic methodologies and their application to efficient total synthesis of natural products.

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