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Prof Shunsuke CHIBA
Principal Investigator
Prof Shunsuke Chiba is Chair in School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CCEB), a newly launched interdisciplinary school under College of Engineering and College of Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
Prof Chiba is a synthetic organic chemist, who is interested in the development of fundamentally novel and practical synthetic reactions and catalysis that are useful for efficient supply of complex organic molecules of pharmaceutical interests. He completed his PhD in 2006 at the University of Tokyo, Department of Chemistry. In 2007, he embarked on his independent career as Assistant Professor at NTU Singapore in School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry (CBC), and was then promoted to Associate Professor and then Professor. He served as Head of CBC in 2012-2016 and 2021-2022, Acting co-Chair of CCEB on its foundation in April 2022, and sole Acting Chair of CCEB in April 2023. He was appointed Chair of CCEB in October 2023.
Singapore - NTU
Researchers
SM3
Research Interest
- Synthetic Chemistry
- Catalysis
- Oragnic Free Radicals
- Synthetic Photochemistry
Key Publications
Lab group webpage
“Dearomatization of (Hetero)arenes through Photodriven Interplay between Polysulfide Anions and Formate,” Eugene Yew Kun Tan, Amirah S. Mat Lani, Wayne Sow, Yuliang Liu, Haoyu Li and Shunsuke Chiba, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202309764. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202309764
“Generation of Allylmagnesium Reagents by Hydromagnesiation of 2-Aryl-1,3-dienes,” Yihang Li, Jiahua Chen, Jaslyn Jing Wen Ng and Shunsuke Chiba, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202217735. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202217735
“Pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines as multitasking organophotocatalysts in chemical synthesis,” Yuliang Liu, Haoyu Li, Eugene Yew Kun Tan, Erik Budi Santiko, Youhei Chitose, Manabu Abe and Shunsuke Chiba, Chem. Catal. 2022, 2, 2726-2749. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.checat.2022.08.013
“Synthesis of a-tertiary amines by polysulfide anions photocatalysis via single-electrontransfer and hydrogen-atom-transfer in relays,” Haoyu Li and Shunsuke Chiba, Chem. Catal. 2022, 2, 1128-1142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.checat.2022.03.006
“Polysulfide anions as visible light photoredox catalysts for aryl cross-couplings,” Haoyu Li, Xinxin Tang, Jia Hao Pang, Xiangyang Wu, Edwin K. L. Yeow, Jie Wu, and Shunsuke Chiba, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 481-487. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c11968
Achievements
2019 Mukaiyama Award (SSOCJ, Japan)
2017 The Zasshi-Kai Lectureship 2017 (The University of Tokyo)
2014 Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award of Encouragement 2014
2014 GSK-SNIC Award in Organic Chemistry 2014
2013 A Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2012 The 62nd Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists