Makoto Nakajima

Date of Birth (Place of Birth): October 16, 1959 (Tokyo)

TEL: 096-371-4680 (direct)

FAX: 096-362-7692

E-mail:  nakajima@gpo.kumamoto-u.ac.jp

Biography 

Graduated from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo in March 1983 (Professor Kenji Koga)

Completed the master's program at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo in March 1985.

Completed doctoral course at the same graduate school in March 1988 <Ph.D. in pharmacy>

April 1988 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo (Professor Kenji Koga)

April 1990 Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, USA

-March 1992 Postdoctoral Fellow (Professor WC Still)

December 1993 Lecturer, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University (Professor Shunichi Hashimoto)

April 1998 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University (Professor Shunichi Hashimoto)

May 2004 Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Kumamoto University

April 2008 Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University

Awards, etc. 

February 1999 Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Research Planning Award "Design and synthesis of chiral N-oxide and its application to catalytic asymmetric synthesis reaction"

March 1999 Encouragement Award of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan "Study on Synthesis of New Axial Chirality Biaryl Compounds and Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis Reaction"

Outline of research Enantioselective asymmetric synthesis using chiralamine as a ligand, structural analysis of asymmetric metal complex, asymmetric molecule recognition of amino acid derivative by large cyclic host, development of highly stereoselective glycosylation reaction, using copper complex I have been studying the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of binaphthyl compounds. Currently, he is working on the development of asymmetric synthesis catalyzed by lithium binaphtholate and new synthetic reactions using organomolecular catalysts such as amine-N-oxide and phosphine oxide.