Masakatsu Shibasaki

Masakatsu Shibasaki (Japanese柴 崎 正 胜, Masakatsu Shibasaki, born January 25, 1947 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese chemist.

Life and work

Shibasaki studied chemistry at the University of Tokyo, where he received his PhD in the group of Shun'ichi Yamada 1974. After a post -doctoral stay with EJ Corey at Harvard University, he came back to Japan in 1977, where he accepted a professorship at the Teikyo University. In 1983 he became a group leader at Sagami Chemical Research Center, 1986 he became a professor at the University of Hokkaido. In 1991 he accepted a position at the University of Tokyo. Since 2010, Shibasaki is a director at MCRF ( Microbial Chemistry Research Center) in Tokyo.

In 1995 he was a visiting professor at the University of Marburg.

The focus of his research is in the field of asymmetric catalysis and medicinal chemistry of biologically significant components. The deer - factor of Masakatsu Shibasaki is 73, which clearly indicates his outstanding scientific achievements.

Shibasaki synthesis

In 2006 published a novel Shibasaki synthesis of Tamiflu, bypassing the shikimic acid

Honors

Shibasaki In 1981 he received the Prize of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan for Young Scientists. In 1994 he was awarded the Inoue Prize for Science, 1996 Price Fluka Reagent of the Year. In 1998, he was honored by Elsevier with the price of inventiveness in Organic Chemistry, one year later, with the price of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, and the price for Molecular Chirality. The Naito Foundation conferring him the 2001 Research Award, the American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Award (2002 ). This was followed by awards to the Toray Science and Technology Award (2004 ), the Japan Academy prize (2005), the Sankyo Takamine Memorial Award and the price Shiokawa (2006), the Centenary Medal and Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2007 ) the prize for creativity in synthetic organic chemistry, the American Chemical Society ( 2008) and Prelog medal of the ETH Zurich (2008).

In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2003. Shibasaki is an honorary member of the Chemical Society of Japan.