2003: B.S., Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University 2008: Ph. D., Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University 2008~: Assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, the University of Tokyo 2007~2008: JSPS research fellowship for young scientists (DC2)

Organic Chemistry/Coordination Chemistry

Axially Chiral Guanidine as Enantioselective Base Catalyst for 1,4-Addition Reaction of 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds with Conjugated Nitroalkenes Masahiro Terada, Hitoshi Ube, Yusuke Yaguchi J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 1454-1455. Axially Chiral Guanidine as Highly Active and Enantioselective Catalyst for Electrophilic Amination of Unsymmetrically Substituted 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds Masahiro Terada, Megumi Nakno, Hitoshi Ube J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 16044-16045. Enantioselective 1,4-Addition Reactions of Diphenyl Phosphite to Nitroalkenes Catalyzed by an Axially Chiral Guanidine Masahiro Terada,Takashi Ikehara, Hitoshi Ube J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 14112-14113. Asymmetric Direct Vinylogous Aldol Reaction of Furanone Derivatives Catalyzed by an Axially Chiral Guanidine Base Hitoshi Ube, Naoki Shimada, Masahiro Terada Angew. Chem., Int Ed. 2010, 49, 1858-1861. A Self-Assembled Multiporphyrin Cage Complex through Three Different Zinc(II) Center Formation under Well-Balanced Aqueous Conditions

Angew. Chem., Int Ed. 2013, 52, 720-723.