Name of your university Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Full name HIRANO Masafumi
Year of birth 1966
Current appointment (position and institution) Associate Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Technology
Address 2-24-16 Nakacho, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan
Telephone +81-(0)423-88-7044
Fax +81-(0)-423-87-7500
E-mail hrc@cc.tuat.ac.jp
URL http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~hirano/kohrc/
Fields of general research Organometallic chemistry and molecular catalysis
Fields of specialization

Organometallic chemistry
Molecular catalysis
Transition-metal nano particles

Subject of research work and/or titles of lecture and discussion

Bond cleavage reaction of unactivated bonds
Resources utilization
Molecular catalysis

Research reports (papers and reviews) within recent 5 years

Hirano, et al., ‘Synthesis of and Stereospecific Hydride Migration in Cationic (Tricyclic arene)(cyclooctadiene)ruthenium(II) Complexes, Organometallics, 21, 5738 (2002).

Hirano et al., ‘Regioselective C-H or N-H Bond Cleavage Reactions of Heterocyclic Compounds by Ru(1,5-COD)(1,3,5-COT)/monodentate Phosphine, Inorg. Chim. Acta., in press.

Hirano et al., ‘Crystal and Solution Structures of Photochromic Spirobenzothiopyran.  First Full Characterization of the Meta-stable Colored Species’, J. Org. Chem., 67, 533 (2002).

Hirano et al., ‘Michael Addition of N-Bonded Enolato Ligand in Fe and Ru Complexes to Acrylonitrile’, Chem. Commun., 2000, 1679.

Hirano et al., ‘Successive O-H and sp3 C-H Bond Activation of ortho Substituted Phenols by a Ruthenium(0) Complex, J. Organomet. Chem., 607, 18 (2000).

and 31 papers in international journals within recent 5 years.
Research theme of doctor course students in your laboratory

Carbon-heteroatom bond cleavage by low-valent ruthenium complex by use of chalcogen anchor

Zero-emission molecular transiormations by highly reduced ruthenium complexes

Catalysis in water/organic solvent medium by water soluble transition-metal complexes

Ultrafine nano transition-metal alloy prepared from transition-metal complexes
French researchers You collaborated with