Prof.Ken Tanaka

Department of Applied Chemistry,Graduate School of Science and Engineering,Tokyo Institute of Technology

Experience: He obtained his PhD from The University of Tokyo under the supervision of Professor Takeshi Kitahara and had been working as a post-doctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professor Gregory C. Fu.

His research is focused on novel transition-metal-catalyzed reactions and their application to organic synthesis.

Title: Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric [2+2+2] Cycloaddition Reactions.

A/Prof. Masatoshi Shibuya

Department of Basic Medicinal Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya University

Experience: He obtained his PhD from Tohoku University and had been working as a post-doctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute under the supervision of Professor K. C. Nicolaou.

His research is focused on development of atom economical synthetic methods using main-group elements.

Title: Transition-Metal-Free Catalytic Systems for Electrophilic Functionalization of C-C Multiple Bonds.