2024
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Guangqin LI
School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University
Title: Converting NOx into high-valued organic chemicals via electrocatalysis
Date: 22 Feburary, 2024 (Thur) 11:00-12:00
Place: S-507 Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Materials Physics Building
2023
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Guangbin DONG
Weldon G. Brown Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University
of Chicago
Title: Merging C-C and C-H Activation: Palladium/Norbornene Cooperative
Catalysis
Date：22 December, 2023 (Fri.) 10:30-11:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute
of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Dongmei CUI 10:35-11:05
Title : Synthesis of new plastics and elastomers: catalysts, structures,
and properties
Prof. Baoli WANG 11:10-11:40
Title : Copolymerization of ethylene and olefins catalyzed by novel rare
earth complexes
Prof. Zhongbao JIAN 13:10-13:40
Title : Diverse Polyolefins Synthesis
School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology
Prof. Haobing WANG 13:45-14:15
Title : Metal Synergistic Enables Close-Loop Recycling and Upcycling of
Commodity Polyesters by Binuclear Titanium Catalyst
College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University
Prof. Yang YANG 14:20-14:50
Title : A case study of the relationship between chain-structure, thermomechanical
property, and catalyst structure for commodity mLLDPE product
Prof. Yulong JIN 15:25-15:55
Title : Exploring the Promotion Effects of Support Modification over the
CrOx/Vox/SiO2 Bimetallic Catalyst for Bimodal UHMWPE/HDPE In-reactor Blends:
An Alternative View from Experimental and Theoretical Approaches
State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute
of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science
Prof. Boping LIU 16:00-16:30
Title: Single-reactor multi-modal polyethylene (SRMMPE) based on Bi and
Tri-metallic catalyst technologies
Date：15 December, 2023 (Fri.)
Place：S311 Large Seminar Room, 3F Bioscience Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Hang Shi
Associate Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry, School of Science,
Westlake University, China
Title : Rh-catalyzed transformations via transient π-arene complexes
Date：27 November, 2023 (Mon.) 16:00-17:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Hang Shi
Associate Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry, School of Science,
Westlake University, China
Title : Rh-catalyzed transformations via transient π-arene complexes
Date：27 November, 2023 (Mon.) 16:00-17:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Yizhou Zhang
Core Research Cluster for Materials Science Advanced Institute for Materials
Research (WPI-AIMR) Tohoku Univ.
Title : Tuning Nanostructured Polymer Membranes via Lyotropic Assembly:
Towards More Efficient Fabrication of Sub-1 nm Channels
Date：17 October, 2023 (Tue.) 16:00-17:00
Place：Seminar Room, 6F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Christopher C. Cummins
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Title : Phosphorus-Element Bond-Forming Reactions from PN to Phosphinidene
Group Transfer
Date：8 September, 2023 (Fri.) 16:00-17:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Daniel J. Mindiola
Brush Family Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Title : New Developments in Low-Valent and Early Transition Metal Ions,
Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds, and Catalytic Reactions Involving Methane
Date：4 September, 2023 (Mon.) 16:00-17:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. David Liptrot
Associate Professor & Royal Society University Research Fellow Department
of Chemistry, University of Bath, UK
Title : NHC-Supported Copper(I) Main Group Complexes in Synthesis and Catalysis
Date：10 July, 2023 (Mon.) 15:00-16:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Alexandr Simonov
Associate Professor
Senior School of Chemistry, Monash University, Australia
Title : Sustainable electrosynthesis of hydrogen and ammonia
Date：10 July, 2023 (Mon.) 16:00-17:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Eric Rivard
Department of Chemistry, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University
of Alberta, CANADA
Title : From Conducting Polymers to Mild Semiconductor Synthesis in Solution:
Main Group Chemistry at Work
Date：16 March, 2023 (Thu.) 16:00-17:00
Place：Suzuki Umetaro Hall
2022
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Rory Waterman
Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Title : Developments in Photocatalytic Hydrophosphination
Date：28 November, 2022 (Mon.) 16:00-17:00
Place：Suzuki Umetaro Hall
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Li JIA
School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron,
USA
Title : Metal-catalyzed carbonylative polymerizations
- A quest for sustainable commodity plastics
Date：17 June, 2022 (Fri.) 15:00-16:10
Place：Okochi Hall
2021
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Paul G. HAYES
Tier I Board of Governors Research Chair in Organometallic Chemistry University
of Lethbridge, Canada
Title : Metal-ligand Cooperative Small Molecule Activation by Rhodium NNN-Pincer
Complexes
Date: 6 August, 2021 (Fri.) 11:00-12:00
Online
2019
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Florian Jaroschik
CNRS, Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, France
Title : New Organometallic Transformations of Pentafulvenes and Benzofulvenes:
from Regioselective Hydroalumination to C-F bond Activation
Date：23 October, 2019 (Wed.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Zongxian Wang
College of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum, China
Title : Efficient Thermal Conversion of Heavy Oils by Recycling Hydrogen
Donor Fractions
Date：11 June, 2019 (Tue.) 15:00-16:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Aiwen Lei
Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Wuhan University, China
Title : Oxidation-Induced C-H Activation and Oxidative Cross-Coupling with
Hydrogen Evolution
Date：23 May, 2019 (Thu.) 16:00-17:20
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. PWU Jishan
Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Title : Diradicaloids, Polyradicaloids, and Covalent Organic Radical Frameworks
Date：27 February, 2019 (Wed.) 11:00-12:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Patchanita Thamyongkit
Institute for Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn
University , Thailand
Title : On Potential of π-Extended Oligopyrrole Derivatives for Optoelectronics
and Electrocatalysis
Date：8 February, 2019 (Fri.) 11:00-12:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Peter Junk
College of Science & Engineering, James Cook University, Australia
Title : Recent Developments in Redox Transmetallation Chemistry Involving
Rare Earth Metals
Date：17 January, 2019 (Thu.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
2018
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Holger Braunschweig
Institute for Sustainable Chemistry & Catalysis with Boron,Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry,
University of Würzburg, Germany
Title : Turning Boron Chemistry on its Head: The Unusual Chemistry of Boron
in Low Oxidation States
Prof. Kuo-Wei Huang
KAUST Catalysis Center and Division of Physical Science and Engineering,
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Title : A Novel Class of PN3(P)-Pincer Complexes: Cooperative Catalysis
and Beyond
Date：8 November, 2018 (Thu.) 15:00-17:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Martin Oestreich
Institute for Chemistry, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Title : Solving (Our) Two Long-Standing Problems in Silicon Chemistry
Date：23 October, 2018 (Tue.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Alan S. Goldman
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, USA
Title : Catalysis by Pincer-Iridium Complexes. Breaking C-H Bonds, Making
C-C Bonds, and Various Combinations Thereof
Prof. Bing-Tao Guan
State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University,China
Title : New Explorations on S-Block Metal Catalysts
Prof. Pierre H. Dixneuf
Institute of Chemical Sciences of Rennes/ Center for Catalysis and Green
Chemistry, University of Rennes 1, France
Title : Catalytic Cross-Couplings from C-H Bonds : Late Stage Modifications
of P & N Ligands
Date：29 August, 2018 (Tue.) 14:30-17:20
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Yi Luo
School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China
Title : The Mechanism of Olefin Polymerizations Catalyzed by Rare Earth
Metal Complexes: Insights from DFT Calculations
Prof. Wenjing Hong
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, China
Title :Charge Transport through Single-Molecule Organometallic Complex
Prof. Haiping Xia
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, China
Title : Polycarbolong Chemistry: A Story of Carbon Chain ligands and Transition
Metals
Date：6 August, 2018 (Mon.) 14:00-17:20
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Da-Gang Yu
College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, China
Title : :CO2Utilization in Organic Synthesis
Date：26 June, 2018 (Thu.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Dmitri G. Goussev
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Title : :Catalytic Hydrogenation and Dehydrogenative Coupling
Date：7 June, 2018 (Thu.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. John C. Gordon
Chemistry Division Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Title : The Efficient Outer Sphere Hydrogenation of Carbonyl Containing
Substrates: Some New Insights
Date：12 March, 2018 (Mon.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Han Sen Soo
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Title : Artificial Photosynthesis by Light Absorption, Charge Separation,
and Photoredox Catalysis
Date：8 March, 2018 (Thu.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
2017
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Paula L. Diaconescu
University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Title : Redox Switchable Catalysis
Date：11 September, 2017 (Mon.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Pengfei Li
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Title : Chemoselective Manipulation of Boryl Groups With or Without Metals
Date：5 September, 2017 (Tue.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Tiow-Gan Ong
Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Title : Carbon and Catalysis
Date：29 August, 2017 (Tue.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Shuanhu Gao
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes School
of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, China
Title : Natural Products Total Synthesis Using Photo-reactions
Date：7 July, 2017 (Fri.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Jean-François Carpentier
Catalysis & Organometallics, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rennes
1, France
Title : Highly Reactive Heavy Alkaline-Earth Complexes for Hydroelementation
and
Dehydrocoupling Catalysis
Date：10 May, 2017 (Wed.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Zhibin Guan
Department of Chemistry University of California, USA
Title：Exploring Transition Metal Catalysts for Making and Breaking Polymers
Date：24 March, 2017 (Fri.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
2016
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Rei Kinjo
Division of Chemistry & Biological Chemistry, School of Physical &
Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Title : Design of Organoboron Featuring Unique Electronic Property
Date：20 December, 2016 (Tue.) 15:00-16:30
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Zhu-Jun Yao
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University, China
Title: Discoveries through Total Synthesis of Natural Hybrid Chlorofusin
Date：21 November, 2016 (Mon.) 15:00-16:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Martin Oestreich
Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Title : Catalysis with Silicon and Boron
Date：17 November, 2016 (Thu.) 15:00-16:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Congyang Wang
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), China
Title：Manganese-Group Metal Catalysis for Transformations of Inert C-H
Bonds
Date：27 September, 2016 (Tue.) 15:00-16:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Ming-Hua Xu
State Key Laboratory of Drug Research Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica
Chinese Academy of Science, China
Title：Exceptionally Simple Olefin Ligands for Broad-Scope Asymmetric Catalysis
Date：25 April, 2016 (Mon.) 15:00-16:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Alexander Trifonov
Institute of Organometallic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Title：Complexes of Rare- and Alkaline-Earth Metals for Catalytic Intermolecular
Olefin Hydrophosphination and Hydroamination Reactions
Date：14 March, 2016 (Mon.) 11:00-12:00
Place：Seminar Room, 6F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Jin Kyoon Park
Department of Chemistry, Pusan National University, Korea
Title：Synthesis and Application of Fused N-Heterocycles in Pd and Cu Catalysis
Date：26 February, 2016 (Fri.) 15:00-16:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
- RIKEN Seminar
- Prof. Steven Nolan
Chemistry Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi
Arabia
Title：Prospecting with Gold: Gold-N-Heterocyclic Carbene
Date：19 January, 2016 (Tue.) 15:00-16:00
Place：Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Material Physics Building
