A young chemist is introduced in interview #9 of this series. This interviewee is the youngest of all the Chem-Station interviewees thus far—please welcome Professor Makoto Yamashita. Recommended to ...
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Robert Burns Woodward
Education and Experiences Awards and Honors 1945 John Scott Medal 1955 Baekeland Medal 1959 Davy Medal 1961 Roger Adams Award 1964 National Medal of Science 1965 Nobel Prize in ...
Copper-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative C-C Bond Cleavage for C-N Bond Formation: From Ketones to Amides
Tang, C.; Jiao, N.; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, Early view. DOI:10.1002/anie.201403528 A novel copper-catalyzed aerobic oxidative C(CO)-C(alkyl) bond cleavage reaction of aryl alkyl ketones for C-N ...
High Electrical Conductivity in Ni3(2,3,6,7,10,11- hexaiminotriphenylene)2, a Semiconducting Metal−Organic Graphene Analogue
Sheberla, D.; Sun, L.; Blood-Forsythe, M. A.; Er, S.; Wade, C. R.; Brozek, C. K.; Aspuru-Guzik, A.; Dincă, M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014. APAP. DOI:10.1021/ja502765n Reaction of ...
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka (born 1959, Toyama, Japan) is a Japanese analytical chemist and engineer, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses ...
#8: Professor Tamio Hayashi: Selectively creating enantiomers using unique catalysts
This interview series has been around for a few months now, and has received many positive reviews. We appreciate your encouragement and we would like to continue this series. For this 8th interview, ...
Serine-Selective Aerobic Cleavage of Peptides and a Protein Using a Water-Soluble Copper–Organoradical Conjugate
Seki, Y.; Tanabe, K.; Sasaki, D.; Sohma, Y.; Oisaki, K.; Kanai, M. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, Early View. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402618 The site-specific cleavage of peptide bonds is an important ...
Febuxostat
Febuxostat is an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase, and was developed by Teijin pharma. This compound is known as a new drug that is effective against gout and hyperuricemia, and it has been 40 ...
Fusing N-Heterocyclic Carbenes with Carborane Anion
El-Hellanid, A.; Lavallo, V. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53, 2014. 4489-4493. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402445 Fusion of two families of unusual carbon-containing molecules that readily disregard the tendency ...
#7: Professor Naoki Sugimoto: Studying the chemistry of life: looking beyond the world of Watson and Crick
The 7th interview of this series, as referred to us by Professor Itaru Hamachi (5th interview), is with Professor Naoki Sugimoto, director of the Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering ...