Hiroaki Sasai
Osaka University, Japan
Biography
Hiroaki Sasai received PhD from Keio University and joined Sagami Chemical Research Institute in 1985. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor at Hokkaido University (1988-1992) and as a Lecturer and an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo (1992-1997). Since 1997, he is a Professor of Osaka University. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals and received several awards including the Fluka Prize “Reagent of the Year 1996”, the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2006), Molecular Chirality Award (2011), and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award, Japan (2016).
Abstract
Abstract : Construction of highly functionalized compounds via metal free transformations