公益社団法人有機合成化学協会 SSOCJ - The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan

Mukaiyama Award

• 2011 Professor Dean Toste Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  

  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 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan

  

  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 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, USA

  

  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 Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Japan

  

  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 Department of Chemistry,Stanford University, USA

  

  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 Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan

  

  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 Department of Chemistry University of Illinois, USA

  

  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 Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  

  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 Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

  

  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 Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

  

  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, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

  

  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 Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan.

  

  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

  

  Professor Fuerstner has made outstanding contributions to development of novel organometallic methodologies and their application to efficient total synthesis of natural products.