Introducing Hajime Ito – Inaugural Associate Editor of RSC Mechanochemistry

We are delighted to introduce to you Professor Hajime Ito, Hokkaido University, Japan, as one of our inaugural Associate Editors for RSC Mechanochemistry.

 

Learn more about Hajime Ito

Hajime Ito was born in 1968 in Osaka, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from Kyoto University under the supervision of Prof. Yoshihiko Ito and Prof. Masahiro Murakami. He then joined the research group of Prof. Akira Hosomi at Tsukuba University before moving to the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki in 1999. He then worked as a visiting scientist in the research group of Prof. Kim D. Janda at The Scripps Research Institute. In 2002, he joined the research group of Prof. Masaya Sawamura at Hokkaido University. He was promoted to full professor in 2010. He became a distinguished professor in 2022. He is also appointed as the Deputy Director of the Institute of Reaction Design and Development (WPI-ICReDD) at Hokkaido University. He is also appointed as a PI for JST CREST “Innovative Reactions.”

 

His research interests include the development of new organic synthesis methods and organic crystalline materials through the use of organoboron, silicon, and mechanochemistry. He received the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2014), the SSOCJ Fujifilm Functional Materials Science Award (2017), and the HSFC DemoDay Hokkaido Governor’s Award (2022).

 

Read some of his recent publications:

 

Mechanochemical Approach for Air-Tolerant and Extremely Fast Lithium-Based Birch Reductions in Minutes

Yunpeng Gao, Koji Kubota and Hajime Ito

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202217723

 

Mechanochemistry-Directed Ligand Design: Development of a High-Performance Phosphine Ligand for Palladium-Catalyzed Mechanochemical Organoboron Cross-Coupling

Tamae Seo, Koji Kubota and Hajime Ito

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 6823-6837

 

Redox reactions of small organic molecules using ball milling and piezoelectric materials

Koji Kubota, Yadong Pang, Akira Miura and Hajime Ito

Science, 2019, 366, 1500-1504

 

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