History: Since 4/2009 Assistant Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan With Professor Shu Kobayashi JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientist DC1 4/2006 – 3/2009 Ph. D. student in Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan With Professor Shu Kobayashi 1/2008 – 3/2008 Research experience as a visiting researcher in Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA With Professor Justin Du Bois 3/2006 – 4/2004 Master course student in Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan With Professor Shu Kobayashi 4/2003 – 3/2004 B. S. in Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan With Professor Shu Kobayashi Awards: 2013 優秀講演賞 (学術)（日本化学会第93春季年会） 2011 BCSJ Award, June, 15 (The Chemical Society of Japan) 2010 The Reaxys® PhD Prize Winner in 2010 The first prize winner (Elsevier Properties SA, Neuchâtel, Switzerland) 2009 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad (Refuse to accept) 2006 JSPS DC1

Synthetic organic chemistry/Metal nano-cluster/Heterogeneous catalyst/Reaction integration

高効率酸素酸化反応を鍵とした集積合成のための高機能ナノ触媒の開発 [2012-2013, 新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型) 反応集積化の合成化学 革新的手法の開拓と有機物質創成への展開]

金属ナノクラスター触媒による酸化的アミド合成の開発と新規ナノマテリアルの創成 [2012-2013, 若手研究(B)]

分子状酸素を用いる酸化反応を基盤とする超効率的フローシステムの開発 [2010-2011, 新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型) 反応集積化の合成化学 革新的手法の開拓と有機物質創成への展開]

効率的ワンポット連続合成反応を指向した高分子固定化金属ナノクラスター触媒の開発 [2010-2011, 若手研究(B)]

多機能協調型ナノクラスター触媒の開発 [2009, 若手研究(スタートアップ)]

Polymer-Incarcerated Metals Highly Reactive, Recoverable, and Multifunctional Nanocluster Catalysts for Organic Synthesis. Kobayashi, Shū; Miyamura, Hiroyuki, Aldrichimica Acta, 2013, 46, 3-19. Selective imine formation from alcohols and amines catalyzed by polymer incarcerated gold/palladium alloy nanoparticles with molecular oxygen as an oxidant. Soulé, Jean-François; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 355-357.　DOI: 10.1039/C2CC36213A Selected as back Cover　Highlighted in Synfacts: Synfacts 2013, 9, 0345. A Cooperative Catalytic System of Platinum/Iridium Alloyed Nanoclusters and a Dimeric Catechol Derivative: An Efficient Synthesis of Quinazolines Through a Sequential Aerobic Oxidative Process. Yuan, Hao; Yoo, Woo-Jin; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2012, 354, 2899-2904. DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201200880 Highlighted in Synfacts: Synfacts 2013, 9, 0228. Discovery of a Metalloenzyme-like Cooperative Catalytic System of Metal Nanoclusters and Catechol Derivatives for the Aerobic Oxidation of Amines. Yuan, Hao; Yoo, Woo-Jin; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012,134, 13970-13973. DOI: 10.1021/ja306934b Picked up to Chemical & Engineering News: C&EN 2012, 90 (34) 13. Highlighted in Synfacts: Synfacts 2012, 8, 1384. Polymer-Incarcerated Chiral Rh/Ag Nanoparticles for Asymmetric 1,4-Addition Reactions of Arylboronic Acids to Enones: Remarkable Effects of Bimetallic Structure on Activity and Metal Leaching. Yasukawa, Tomohiro; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 16963-16966. DOI: 10.1021/ja307913e Highlighted in Synfacts: Synfacts 2012, 9, 0115. Selective Lactam Formation from Amino Alcohols Using Polymer-Incarcerated Gold and Gold/Cobalt Nanoparticles as Catalysts under Aerobic Oxidative Conditions. Soulé, Jean-François; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2012, 1, 319-321. DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201200093 Selected as Inside Front Cover α-Hydroxylation of 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds Catalyzed by Polymer-incarcerated Gold Nanoclusters with Molecular Oxygen. Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, Chem. Lett. 2012, 41, 976-978. DOI: 10.1246/cl.2012.976 Highlighted in Synfacts: Synfacts 2012, 8, 1383. Oxidative transformation of N-substituted 2-aminophenols to 2-substituted benzoxazoles catalyzed by polymer-incarcerated and carbon-stabilized platinum nanoclusters. Yoo, Woo-Jin; Yuan, Hao; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, Can. J. Chem. 2012, 90, 306-313. DOI: 10.1139/v11-161 Multiphase Flow Systems for Selective Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols Catalyzed by Bimetallic Nanoclusters. Kaizuka, Kosuke; Lee, Ka-Young; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, J. Flow Chem. 2012, 2, 1-4. DOI: 10.1556/jfchem.2011.00014 Powerful Amide Synthesis from Alcohols and Amines under Aerobic Conditions Catalyzed by Gold or Gold/Iron, -Nickel or -Cobalt Nanoparticles. Soulé, Jean-François; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 18550-18553. DOI: 10.1021/ja2080086 Polymer-Incarcerated Gold-Palladium Nanoclusters with Boron on Carbon: A Mild and Efficient Catalyst for the Sequential Aerobic Oxidation-Michael Addition of 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds to Allylic Alcohols. Yoo, Woo-Jin; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 3095-3103. DOI: 10.1021/ja110142y Aerobic Oxidation of Amines Catalyzed by Polymer-Incarcerated Au Nanoclusters: Effect of Cluster Size and Cooperative Functional Groups in the Polymer. Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Morita, Masataka; Inasaki, Takeshi; Kobayashi, Shū, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2011, 84, 588-599. DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20100300 BCSJ Award article Selected as Front Cover Facile Preparation of 2-Substituted Benzoxazoles and Benzothiazoles via Aerobic Oxidation of Phenolic and Thiophenolic Imines Catalyzed by Polymer-Incarcerated Platinum Nanoclusters. Yoo, Woo-Jin; Yuan, Hao; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2011, 353, 3085-3089. DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201100430 Highlighted in Synfacts: Synfacts 2012, 8, 0226. Copper-catalyzed, aerobic oxidative cross-coupling of alkynes with arylboronic acids: remarkable selectivity in 2,6-lutidine media. Yasukawa, Tomohiro; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2011, 9, 6208-6210. DOI: 10.1039/c1ob05915g Rate-Acceleration in Gold-Nanocluster-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Esterification Using 1,2-and 1,3-Diols and Their Derivatives. Yasukawa, Tomohiro; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, Chem. Asian J. 2011, 6, 621-627. DOI: 10.1002/asia.201000624 In situ coupled oxidation cycle catalyzed by highly active and reusable Pt-catalysts: dehydrogenative oxidation reactions in the presence of a catalytic amount of ''o''-chloranil using molecular oxygen as the terminal oxidant. Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Maehata, Kanako; Kobayashi, Shū, Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 8052-8054. DOI: 10.1039/c0cc02865g Highlighted in Synfacts: Synfacts 2010, 0114. Remarkable Effect of Bimetallic Nanocluster Catalysts for Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols: Combining Metals Changes the Activities and the Reaction Pathways to Aldehydes/Carboxylic Acids or Esters. Kaizuka, Kosuke; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 15096-15098. DOI: 10.1021/ja108256h Aerobic oxidative esterification of alcohols catalyzed by polymer-incarcerated gold nanoclusters under ambient conditions. Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Yasukawa, Tomohiro; Kobayashi, Shū, Green Chem. 2010, 12, 776-778. DOI: 10.1039/b926877d Polymer-Incarcerated Metal(0) Cluster Catalysts. Kobayashi, Shū; Miyamura, Hiroyuki, Chem. Rec. 2010, 10, 271-290. DOI: 10.1002/tcr.201000026 Enhanced acyl radical formation in the Au nanoparticle-catalysed aldehyde oxidation.

Conte, Marco; Miyamura, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Shū; Chechik, Victor, Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 145-147. DOI: 10.1039/b918200d