Seminar

2024

RIKEN Seminar
Prof. Wen Xiong ZHANG
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking University, China
Title: Rare-Earth Metallacyclic Chemistry

Prof. Jiao JIAO
School of Chemistry, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Title: Novel Chiral Anionic Chelating Ligands and Their Applications in Asymmetric Catalysts and Optoelectronic Molecules

Date: 8 August, 2024 (Thurs) 14:30-16:30
Place: S-507 Seminar Room, 5F Chemistry and Materials Physics Building
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