| 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 |
| 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 |
| Subject of research work and/or titles of lecture and discussion |
Bond cleavage reaction of unactivated bonds |
| 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 |
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