Dr. Motomu Kanai
(Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo)

Development of Catalytic Enantioselective Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions: Chirality Control for Tetrasubstituted Carbons

Dr. Kanai's achievement is the development of Lewis acid-Lewis base bifunctional asymmetric catalysis and soft metal-hard anion conjugated asymmetric catalysis.