Keiji MARUOKA (Professor)

Field of Expertise:

Organic Chemistry,

Organic Synthesis,

Organocatalytic Chemistry

Research Interests:

1. Design of chiral phase transfer catalysts for useful amino acid synthesis
2. Design of high-performance organocatalysts for selective organic synthesis
3. Chemistry of bidentate Lewis acids and its synthetic application

Recent Papers:

1. Y. Kawamata, T. Hashimoto, and K. Maruoka, “A Chiral Electrophilic Selenium Catalyst for Highly Enantioselective Oxidative Cyclization”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 5206 (2016).
2. S. Shirakawa, S. Liu, S. Kaneko, Y. Kumatabara, A. Fukuda, Y. Omagari, and K. Maruoka, “Tetraalkylammonium Salts as Hydrogen-Bonding Catalysts”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 15767 (2015).
3. T. Hashimoto, A. O. Galvez, and K. Maruoka, “Boronic Acid-Catalyzed, Highly Enantioselective Aza-Michael Additions of Hydroxamic Acid to Quinone Imine Ketals”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 16016 (2015).
4. S. A. Moteki, A. Usui, S. Selvakumar, T. Zhang, and K. Maruoka,“Metal-Free C-H Bond Activation of Branched Aldehydes with a Hypervalent Iodine(III) Catalyst under Visible-Light Photolysis: Successful Trapping with Electron-Deficient Olefins”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53, 11060 (2014).
5. T. Hashimoto, Y. Kawamata, and K. Maruoka, “An Organic Thiyl Radical Catalysed Enantioselective Cyclization”, Nature Chem., 6, 702 (2014).
6. T. Kano, F. Shirozu, and K. Maruoka, “Metal-Free Enantioselective Hydroxyamination of Aldehydes with Nitrosocarbonyl Compounds Catalyzed by an Axially Chiral Amine”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 18036 (2013).
7. T. Hashimoto, Y. Takiguchi, and K. Maruoka, “Catalytic Asymmetric Three-Component 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of Aldehydes, Hydrazides, and Alkynes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135,11473 (2013).
8. T. Kano, Y. Hayashi, and K. Maruoka, “Construction of a Chiral Quaternary Carbon Center by Catalytic Asymmetric Alkylation of 2-Arylcyclohexanones under Phase-Transfer Conditions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 7134 (2013).
9. T. Kano, F. Shirozu, M. Akakura, and K. Maruoka, “Powerful Amino Diol Catalyst for Effecting the Direct Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Aldehydes to Acrylates”,J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 16068 (2012).
10. T. Kano, R. Sakamoto, M. Akakura, and K. Maruoka, “Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Vicinal Diamines by Organocatalytic Asymmetric Mannich Reaction of N-Protected Aminoacetaldehydes: Formal Synthesis of (–)-Agelastatin A”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134,7516 (2012).

Education:

B.S.	Department of Industrial Chemistry, School of Engineering, Kyoto University 1976
Ph.D.	Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii 1980

Professional Appointments:

1980—1985	Assistant Professor School of Engineering, Nagoya University
1985—1989	Lecturer School of Engineering, Nagoya University
1990—1995	Associate Professor School of Engineering, Nagoya University
1995—2000	Professor Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
2000—2001	Professor Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University and Hokkaido University
2001—present	Professor Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
2009—present	Hold “Organocatalytic Chemistry Special Laboratory”

Awards:

1985	The Japan Chemical Society Award for Young Chemist
2000	The Inoue Prize for Science
2001	The Ichimura Prize for Science
2003	Japan Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award
2004	Nagoya Silver Medal
2006	The Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award
2006	Award by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2007	The Japan Chemical Society Award
2007	Molecular Chirality Award
2007/2008	Novartis Lectureship Award
2010	The Chunichi Cultural Prize
2011	Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
2011	Medal with Purple Ribbon (National Prize)
2011	Humboldt Research Award
2012	Toray Science and Technology Prize
2012	The Kyoto Shimbun Award for the Arts, Science and Culture
2016	Ryoji Noyori Prize
2002—present	Editorial Advisory Board of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
2005—2007	Board of Director of Journal of the Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
2005—present	Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2006—present	Editorial Advisory Board of Chemistry: An Asian Journal
2006—2007	Editorial Advisory Board of Chemical Communications
2007—present	Editorial Board of Chemical Communications
2007—present	Editorial Advisory Board of The Open Organic Chemistry Journal
2009—present	Editorial Advisory Board of Accounts of Chemical Research
2011—present	Editor of The Chemical Record
2011—present	Editorial Advisory Board of Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
2012—present	Regional Editor of Tetrahedron Letters
2012—present	Co-Chairperson and Editor of Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry
2013—present	Exective Board Member of The Chemical Society of Japan
2014—present	Editorial Advisory Board of Chemical Communications
2014—present	The Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India
2017—present	Vice-President of The Chemical Society of Japan

Group-Project Leader of the Scientific Research on Priority Areas “Advanced Molecular Transformations of Carbon Resources” (Term: October 2005 ~ March 2009)

Leader of the Specially Promoted Research "High-Performance Organocatalyst Project" (Term: May 2009 ~ March 2014)

Leader of the Scientific Research (S) "Next-Generation Organocatalyst Project" (Term: May 2014 ~ March 2019)

Leader of the Scientific Research on Priority Areas"High-Performance Hybrid Catalyst System" (Term: July 2017 ~ March 2022)

Contact Information:

Phone: 81(Japan)-75-753-4041
Fax: 81(Japan)-75-753-4041
E-mail: maruoka + @kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Link:

Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory (internal link)
Maruoka Group web site

This page was last modified on 05 April 2018.