Prof. Kenichiro Itami has been selected as Irvine Organic Synthesis Lecturer !

Prof. Kenichiro Itami has been selected as this year's Irvine Organic Synthesis Lecturer at University of California, Irvine, USA! He will deliver two lectures entitled "Synthesis of carbon nanorings and carbon nanobelts" (October 18^th, 2023) and "Catalyst-enabled molecular nanocarbon synthesis and nanocarbon biology" (October 19^th, 2023). He is the sixth Japanese chemists (previously, Ryoji Noyori, Hisashi Yamamoto, Masakatsu Shibasaki, Tohru Fukuyama, Eiichi Nakamura) receiving this recognition.

"Synthesis of carbon nanorings and carbon nanobelts" (October 18^th, 2023)

"Catalyst-enabled molecular nanocarbon synthesis and nanocarbon biology" (October 19^th, 2023)

[Irvine Organic Synthesis Lecturer] Since 1988 (one lecturer every year)

Clark Still, David A. Evans, Dieter Seebach, Barry Trost, Ryoji Noyori, Stuart Schreiber, Scott E. Denmark, Hisashi Yamamoto, Samuel J. Danishefsky, Steven V. Ley, Paul A. Wender, William R. Roush, Masakatsu Shibasaki, Clayton Heathcock, K. C. Nicolaou, Robert H. Grubbs, Paul Reider, Manfred T. Reetz, Ben L. Feringa, David W. C. MacMillan, Erick M. Carreira, Eric Jacobsen, Tohru Fukuyama, Melanie Sanford, Stephen Kent, Alois Fürstner, Stephen Buchwald, Eiichi Nakamura, Antonio Echavarren, Scott Miller, Kenichiro Itami