Shinji HARADA Tenure Track Associate Professor

Shinji HARADA
Tenure Track Associate Professor

Researchmap

• Chiba University Institute for Advanced Academic Research / Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Keywords

  Synthetic organic chemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Asymmetric catalysis, Total synthesis, Lanthanide

• Professional Memberships

  The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, The Rare Earth Society of Japan, The Chemical Society of Japan, The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan

Research Theme

Development of Next-Generation Catalysts and New Reactions Realized with Lanthanides, and Contribution to Medicinal Chemistry

Abstract

My research focuses on synthetic organic chemistry, specifically on "catalyst development" and "cyclic skeleton synthesis."

Catalysts are indispensable tools for molecular synthesis and are essential in pursuing sustainable synthetic methods that consider the global environment. In particular, I am engaging in developing catalysts that take advantage of the unique properties of lanthanides (a group of rare-earth elements). By organically combining the functions of lanthanides, I aim to develop next-generation catalysts that cannot be achieved with conventional catalyst systems.

Using the developed catalysts, I have currently set the "cyclic skeleton" as our synthetic target. Many functional molecules, including pharmaceuticals, contain ring structures, and developing synthetic methods for these compounds is an important research objective that will contribute to synthetic organic chemistry and medicinal chemistry.

In conducting these studies, I fully utilize experimental knowledge and techniques, employ computational chemistry for functional analysis, and incorporate machine learning to simplify experiments. Our goal is to contribute to society through fundamental research in pharmaceutical sciences.

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