About us

Our group try to discovering and is developing brand-new organic transformations including unexplored selective reactions.  Toward the goal, transition-metal complexes are mainly employed as the catalysts.

Novel organic transformations may stimulate development of advanced materials and innovative medicines, because they allow us to access novel and unavailable compounds and structural motives.  Furthermore, the reactions may facilitate the rapid construction of compound libraries containing a series of chemical substances, which are used as the samples for developing new materials or drugs. From the above viewpoint, we are studying on synthetic organic chemistry with organometallic and other catalyses. We hope to develop epoch-making organic reactions and contribute the progress of medicinal and material sciences. We dream that our reactions will be frequently used by many researchers and manufacturers for their projects and businesses.

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Ryoichi Kuwano, Professor

Ryoichi Kuwano was born in Nagoya in 1969. He received his Master’s degree in 1994 and Ph. D. in 1998 from Kyoto University (Japan) under the direction of Professor Masaya Sawamura and Professor Yoshihiko Ito. 

He was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Professor Ito’s group at Kyoto University in 1995.  In 2001–2002, he joined the research group of Professor John F. Hartwig at Yale University as a researcher with a MEXT program.  He moved to Kyushu University as an associate professor in 2002, and was promoted to a full professor in 2009. 

 He has received Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award of Encouragement (2005), Incentive Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (2005), the Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT, The Young Scientists’ Prize (2008).

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Current Members

Principal Investigator

Ryoichi Kuwano, Professor


Doctor Course Students

Won Sungyong
Qi Weixin


Master Course Students

Zhang Ao
Urakoshi Ryo
Matsumura Ayafumi
Lee Eunhyung
Lin Yuming


Undergraduates

 


Research Students


Secretary

Yoko Kaneko

Last updated on 2020/03/06