is professor of chemistry at

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(TUS), Japan. He completed his BSc and MSc at TUS, and he joined the group of Prof. Teruaki Mukaiyama at TUS as an assistant professor in 1992. After receiving his PhD from the

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(UT) in 1997, he was promoted to lecturer at the TUS, and then appointed to an associate professor (2003) and a full professor (2008). He has received the

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(CSJ) Award for Young Chemists (1997), the CSJ Award for Creative Work (2013), and the Commendation for Science and Technology Prizes by the

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(2015). His research interests include the development of useful synthetic methods and the total synthesis of natural products. In particular, the dehydration condensation reaction using MNBA (

Shiina esterification Shiina esterification is an organic chemical reaction that synthesizes carboxylic esters from nearly equal amounts of carboxylic acids and alcohols by using aromatic carboxylic acid anhydrides as dehydration condensation agents. In 1994, Prof. I ...

and

Shiina macrolactonization Shiina macrolactonization (or Shiina lactonization) is an organic chemical reaction that synthesizes cyclic compounds by using aromatic carboxylic acid anhydrides as dehydration condensation agents. In 1994, Prof. Isamu Shiina (Tokyo University of ...

) is suitable for synthesis of unstable molecules and is now being widely used around the world in fields such as pharmaceutical production.

Major awards

* 1997: The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists (Chemical Society of Japan) * 2013: The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (Chemical Society of Japan) * 2014: The Inoue Prize for Science (Inoue Foundation for Science) * 2014: The Ichimura Prize for Science (The New Technology Development Foundation) * 2015: The Prize for Science and Technology evelopment Category(The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan)

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HP Shiina Lab Jpn

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