2026

1/26
Prof. Suvarn S. Kulkani (Biswas-Palepu Distinguished Chair Professor, Dean (Academic Programmes) , Deparment of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay)
Prof. Santoshu J. Gharpure (Dean (Faculty Affairs) and professor, Department of Chemistry IIT Bombay)

2025 

10/16
Prof. Hayato Ishikawa (Guraduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Chiba University)
Title: Total synthesis of polycyclic alkaloid.

6/19
Prof. Harinath Chakrapani (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune India)
Title: Leveraging Keto-Enol Chemistry and Biocatalysis for Therapeutic Applications

2024 

3/4
Prof. Soos Tibor (Hungarian Academy of Science)
Title: Metal-free Protocols for Elusive Transformations

2023

7/28
Prof. Ying-Yeung Yeung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Title: Catalytic Asymmetric Halogenations and Their Synthetic Applications

6/12
Prof. Burkhurd König (Universität Regensburg)
Title: Chemical photosynthesis towards ideal chemical transformations

2022

12/14
Prof. Marco Bandini (UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA)
Title: Carbo- and nickel-catalyzed CO2 valorization: new perspectives in organic synthesis

11/14
Prof. Jerome Lacour (Universite De Geneve)
Title: Stereoselective Synthesis & Catalysis with Reactive Metal Carbenes and Ylides

10/12
Prof. Hao Xu (Brandeis University)
Title: Searching for New Reactivity: Iron-Catalyzed Selective Nitrogen Atom Transfer

2019

10/3
Prof. Christopher D. Vanderwal (UC Irvine) (URL)
Studies in Complex Natural Product Synthesis Design

10/1
Prof. Qiantao Wang (West China School of Pharmacy, Shichuan University)
Title: The pros and cons of molecular dynamics simulation in drug discovery

08/30
Prof. Masayuki Wasa (Boston College) (URL)
Title: Enantioselective Cooperative Catalysis involving Frustrated Acid/Base Complex

07/12
宇野 貴夫　講師（大鵬薬品工業株式会社 研究本部 創薬化学研究所）
Title: 新規経口型HSP90 阻害剤TAS-116 の創製

07/05
森　直紀博士（公益財団法人　乙卯研究所）(URL)
Title: 複雑天然物アザジラクチンの合成への挑戦

07/01
山川一義　講師（富士フイルム株式会社ファインケミカル事業部シニアアドバイザー）
Title: フロー合成法を用いるファインケミカル製造

06/15
有機合成化学協会　東北支部　春の講演会

安酸達郎先生（塩野義製薬(株)）
Title: HIV-1インテグラーゼ阻害剤 ドルテグラビルの効率的合成法の開発
松原誠二郎先生（京大院工）(URL)
Title: 光学活性分子の新規合成法
ロドニー　スティーブンス先生（大正製薬（株））
Title: The Discovery of Novel, Potent and Orally Active COX-2 Inhibitors：“Hit” to Candidate
市川淳士先生（筑波大数理物質）(URL)
フッ素を電子供与基として活用する有機合成反応

06/12
谷野 圭持 教授 (北海道大学 大学院理学研究院) (URL)
Title: シアノ基の特性を活用した天然物合成

02/08
Prof. Jon T. Njardarson (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona)(URL)
Title: No Strain no Gain

2018

10/25
森　聖治 教授　（茨城大学理学部）
Prof. Seiji Mori (Ibaraki University)(HP)
Title: Bridges between Experiment and Theory on Catalytic Reactions

10/23
Prof. Imre Papai (Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest)(HP)
Title: On the Origin of Stereocontrol in Diphenylprolinol Silyl Ether Catalyzed Michael Additions

08/29
Prof. Indresh Kumar (BITS Pilani) (HP)
Title: Linear dicarbonyls as suitable substrates for amine catalyzed transformatioins: Synthesis of medium sized N-heterocyclic compounds

07/20
Prof. Junichiro Yamaguchi (Waseda University)(HP)
Title: 分子をつなぐ・人もつなぐ

06/18
Prof. Kazunori Koide (Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, USA)(HP)
Title: Development and applications of transition-metal-catalyzed reactions in pharmaceutical processes and biology

06/16 有機合成化学協会東北支部　春の講演会

05/25 Japanese-Spanish Pre-Symposium in Organic Synthesis in Sendai
Prof. Jose Manuel Gonzalez Diaz
Title: Electrophilic Activation of Unsaturated Systems: Selective C-C Bond-Forming Reactions
Prof. Shintaro Ishida
Title: Incorporating Silicon-Silicon Double Bond into Metallacycles and Polycyclic Conjugated COmpounds
Prof. Azusa Kondoh
Title: Ring Expansion of Epoxides Under Bronsted Base Catalysis: Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition of Epoxides with Imines
Dr. Nobuyoshi Yasuda
Title: The Art of Process Chemistry
Prof. Yujiro Hayashi
Title: Pot Economy in the Synthesis of Biologically Active Molecules
Prof. Kilian Muniz
Title: C-H Amination with Nitrogen Radicals: Beeyond All Limits

04/10
Dr. Tohru Taniguchi (Hokkaido University)(HP)
Title: 円二色性(CD)と赤外円二色性(VCD)によるキラル分子・生理活性分子の構造解明

03/28
Prof. Peter I. Dalko (Paris Descartes University, France)(HP)
Title: Light sensitive probes: extending the activation window

03/12
University College London – Tohoku Organic Chemistry Symposium
Prof. Helen Hailes (University College London) (HP)
Title: Green chemistry: enzymatic and chemoenzymatic strategies in synthesis
Prof. Itaru Nakamura (Tohoku University) (HP)
Title: Recent progress on catalytic skeletal rearrangement reactions
Prof. Martin Lear (University of Lincoln) (HP)
Title: Atypical Oxidations of Atypical Substrates to Typically-Activated Esters
Prof. Kazuo Takimiya (Tohoku University) (HP)
Title: π-Extended thienoacenes for organic semiconductors: synthetic chemical approaches
Prof. Jim Anderson (University College London) (HP)
Title: Target Synthesis: 1,2-diamines and infraluciferins

03/09
Prof. Peter R. Schreiner (Justus-Liebig-University, Germany) (HP)
Title: London Dispersion Effects in Molecular Chemistry - Reconsidering Steric Effects

02/19
橋本勝　先生 (弘前大学) (HP)
Title: 計算を活用した天然物の構造決定

1/25
Prof. Seung Hwan Cho (POSTECH) (HP)
Title: Chemo, Regio and Stereoselective Oganic Transformations of 1,1-Diborylalkanes

2017 

11/31-12/1
Organocatalyst Sympothium
鈴木啓介　先生（東工大理）（HP）
Title: ハイブリッド天然物に学ぶ：カルタミン、スピロキシン、テトラセノマイシン
柴崎正勝　先生（微化研）（HP）
Title: 先進的・実践的協奏機能型不斉触媒の開発と展開
満田勝　先生（カネカ）
Title: 化学合成がもたらすソリューション
Prof. Paolo Melchiorre (ICIQ, ICREA)
Title: Throwing Light on Organocatalysis: New Opportunities in Enantioselective Synthesis

5/15
Dr. Marcus White (Thieme)
Thieme Chemistry Science of Synthesis Seminar

2/7
Cambridge – Tohoku Organic Chemistry Symposium
Prof. David Spring (Cambridge University) (HP)
Title: Enriching Chemical Space to Drug Undruggable Targets
Dr. Robert Phipps (Cambridge University) (HP)
Title: Harnessing Non-Covalent Interactions for Control of Regioselectivity in Iridium-Catalysed C-H Borylation of Arenes
Prof. Matthew Gaunt (Cambridge University) (HP)
Title: New Strategies for Chemical Synthesis and Biology

2/2
山下修治 先生 (ハーバード大学)
Title: 複雑天然物の合成研究：ラジカル反応とNHK反応

1/19
Prof. Martin James Lear (University of Lincoln, UK)
Title: Creative Avenues to Understanding Biology via Applied Total Synthesis and Chemical Mimicry

1/11
Dr.Shih-Ching Chuang (National Chiao Tung University(NCTU), Taiwan) (HP)
Title: alpha-Addition of Phosphines to Oligoynoates and New Functional Fullerene Derivatives as n-Type Materials in Organic Photovoltaics

2016

12/26
Dr. Takasuke Mukaiyama (eFFECTOR Therapeutics)
Title: 英語ができないで海外に渡った学生のひとりごと

11/14
Prof. Scott A. Snyder (University of Chicago) (HP)
Title: Exploring Chemoselectivity through Natural Product Total Synthesis

10/31
Prof. Amir H. Hoveyda (Department of Chemistry, Boston College) (HP)
Title:Stereochemical Integrity of Cu-Substituted Stereogenic Carbon Centers in Enantioselective Catalysis

Prof. Nobuyoshi Yasuda (Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ USA)
Title: The Art of Process Chemistry

8/5
村上正浩教授 (京都大学大学院工学研究科)(HP)
Title:Photon-Driven Synthetic Reactions

6/16
硤合憲三教授 (東京理科大学理学部第一部応用化学科)(HP)
Title:不斉自己触媒反応とホモキラリティーの起源

5/20
髙橋和彦博士 (大日本住友製薬（株）技術研究本部)
Title:医薬品のプロセス化学～レニン阻害剤の商用製造を志向した効率的な製造プロセスの開発

5/19
Prof. Jun Okuda (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)(HP)
Title:Metal Carbenes in Unusual Environments

4/27
Prof. Amir H. Hoveyda (Boston College, USA)(HP)
Title:Exploiting Ammonium-Organofluorine Electrostatic Interactions in Enantioselective Catalysis

3/22
Prof. Albrecht Berkessel (Cologne University,Germany)(HP)
Title:Carbene Catalysis and the Breslow intermediate

 2015

11/6
Prof.Junichi Kobayashi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Title:Discovery of bioactive natural products from marine and other sources

11/6
Prof.Karl Anker Jørgensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)(HP)
Title:Organocatalysis as a tool-box for the construction of chiral molecules

11/05
Prof.Jin-Quan Yu (Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA)(HP)
Title:Ligand-accelerated C-H activation reactions: distance and geometry

3/20
Prof. Patrick Pale (Strasbourg University)(HP)
Title:Zeo-click synyhesis: metal-doped zeolites as green catalysts in organic synthesis

3/17
Prof. Eichi Negishi (Pardue University)(HP)
Title:化学研究の最重要ガイドラインズ　A, B, and C's

 2014

11/28
Prof. Daniel Seidel (Rutgers University)(HP)
Title:Redox-Neutral C-H Functionalization of Amines

11/26
Dr. Tom Sheppard (University of College London)(HP)
Title:Water-Driven Chemistry: Formation and Activation of Carbon-Oxygen Bonds

11/25
Prof. Laszlo KURTI (UT Southwestern Medical Center )(HP)
Title: Atroposelective Organocatalysis,Direct N-H Aziridination of Olefins and Transition-Metal-Free C-, N-and O-Arylation Reactions: Synthesis of Functionalized Biaryls and Heterocycles

11/13
Dr. Michel MIESCH (CNRS)
Title: Cycloalkanones tethered to activated alkynes and olefins as versatile tools for the synthesis of polycyclic scaffolds

08/28
千葉 浩亮 博士 (カルフォルニア大学 バークレー校)(HP)
PhD. Hiroaki Chiba (University of California, Berkeley)
演題: 金触媒を用いた分子内ヒドロアミノ化反応を基盤としたキノカルシンの合成と、触媒的酸化能を有するベンゾトリアゾール誘導体の開発

07/17
大石 徹 教授 (九州大学)(HP)
Prof. Toru Oishi (Kyushu University)
演題: 渦鞭毛藻が生産する生物活性天然物の化学合成・構造決定・機能解析

07/03
藤田 照典 氏 (三井化学（株）)
Dr. Terunori Fujita (Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.)
演題: 化学企業のコア技術開発−オレフィン重合触媒の開発を例として

06/30
Prof. Kilian Muniz (ICIQ) (HP)
Title: Oxidative Amination Reactions: a Renaissance of lodine(IIII)-Reagents

03/13
Prof.Paolo Melchiorre (ICIQ) (HP)
Title: Novel Organocatalytic and Photochemical Processes

 2013

11/18
Prof.Gregory Cook (NDSU) (HP)
Title: Advances in Asymmetric Allylation for Sustainable Organic Synthesis

11/14
小林　淳一　教授　(北海道大学) (HP)
Prof. Junichi Kobayashi (Hokkaido University)
演題: 生物活性天然分子のケミカルバイオロジー

7/10
Prof. Karol Grela (Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish)
Title:Motivational tools in challenging olefin metathesis reactions

6/25
舛谷 圭一　博士(Novartis Pharma AG)
Dr. Keiichi Masuya (Novartis Pharma AG)
Title:Drug discovery in Novartis,From bench to clinic

6/19,20
福山 透 教授 (名古屋大学) (HP)
Prof. Tohru Fukuyama (Nagoya University)
演題: 振り返ってみれば・・・

5/24
竜田 邦明 教授 (早稲田大学)
Prof. Kuniaki Tatsuta (Waseda University)
演題: 全ては全合成から始まる
Title:All begins from total synthesis of natural products

4/18
Prof. Michael Willis (University of Oxford, UK)
Title:New Heterocycle Synthesis and Sulfonylation Processes Using Pd and Cu Catalysis

4/18
Prof. Darren Dixon (University of Oxford, UK)
Title:The Battle of Nakadomarin A and other Campaigns in Complex Natural Product Synthesis4/15
Prof. Brian Stoltz (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Title:Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry

4/15
Prof. Brian Stoltz (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Title:Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry

2/16
Prof. Naohiko Yoshikai (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Title:C-H Bond Functionalization Catalyzed by Cobalt Complexes

1/24
Prof. Martin J Lear (Tohoku University, Japan)
Title:Total Synthesis of (-)-Platensimycin inspired by Oxocarbenium, Organocatalytic, and Leiben-Haloform Chemistry
Prof. Bor-Cherng Hong (National Chung Cheng University, TAIWAN), (HP)
Title:The Development and Synthetic Application of New Organocatalyzed Annulations

 2012

11/22
Prof. Emeritus E. Peter Kundig (University of Geneva, Switzerland), (HP)
Title: Asymmmetric Pd-NHC Catalyzed Coupling Reactions

9/12,13
Prof. Dieter Seebach (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland), (HP)
Title: My Sixty Years of Chemistry - a Magical Mystery Tour (9/12),
β-Peptides - from organic synthesis to biochemistry, biology, medicinal chemistry and back a Magical Mystery Tour (9/13)