RESEARCHERID

Akiko Yagi

Principal Investigator, Professor

Website：https://yagilabnagoya.jp/
E-mail：yagi.akiko[at]itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp, yagi.akiko.r4[at]f.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp　(Please replace [at] with @ when sending an email.)

Synthetic Chemistry, Structural Organic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry

Profile

2025–presentProfessor
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University
2023–presentNanoscale Horizons (RSC), Community Board
2022–presentJST PRESTO researcher
2021–2025Designated Associate Professor
Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University
2017–2020Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University
2016–2017Postdoctoral Fellow (JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship)
Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, USA (Prof. Ryan A. Shenvi)
2013–2016PhD (doctor course) student
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University (Prof. Kenichiro Itami)
PhD degree: March 2016

Visiting Student, April 2013–July 2013 (Prof. Cathleen M. Crudden, Queen’s University, Canada)
2011–2013Master course graduate student
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University (Prof. Kenichiro Itami, Nagoya University)
M.S. degree: March 2013

Visiting Student, April 2012–May 2012 (Prof. Ken-Tsung Wong, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
2007–2011Undergraduate student
Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Nagoya University (Prof. Kenichiro Itami, Nagoya University)
B.S. degree: March 2011

Research Highlights

News

Selected Awards and Honors

2025 the 13th Women Chemists Encouragement Award from the Chemical Society of Japan
2025 the 74th Progress Award from the Chemical Society of Japan
2023 The Akasaki Award
2023 The Inoue Science Research Award
2019 Kanto Chemical Co., Inc. Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan

Selected Publications

  • Tsubasa Okumura, Daiki Imoto, Yuri Arachi, Akiko Yagi, Takehisa Maekawa, Kenichiro Itami. Angew. Chem. 2025, e202510544. Twelvefold Dearomative Esterification of (6,6)Carbon Nanobelt. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202510544
  • Yoshifumi Toyama, Akiko Yagi, Kenichiro Itami, Hideto Ito. Nature Commun. 2025, 16, 5044. Birch reductive arylation by mechanochemical anionic activation of polycyclic aromatic compounds. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60318-y
  • Yoshifumi Toyama, Takumu Nakamura, Yushin Horikawa, Yuta Morinaka, Yohei Ono, Akiko Yagi, Kenichiro Itami, Hideto Ito. Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 9117-9124. Rh-catalyzed mechanochemical transfer hydrogenation for the synthesis of periphery-hydrogenated polycyclic aromatic compounds. DOI: 10.1039/d5sc01489a
  • Atsushi Usami, Hideya Kono, Vic Austen, Quan Manh Phung, Hiroki Shudo, Tomoki Kato, Hayato Yamada, Akiko Yagi, Kazuma Amaike, Kazuhiro Fujimoto, Takeshi Yanai and Kenichiro Itami. Science 2025, 388(6751),1055-1061. In-insect synthesis of oxygen-doped molecular nanocarbons. DOI:10.1126/science.adp9384