CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Information
Name:

Ikko Takahashi

Date of Birth:

December 26, 1988

Place of Birth:

Tokushima, Japan

Gender:

MaleNationality:

Japanese

Present Address:

Advanced Organic Synthesis Research TeamRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Saitama 351-0198, JAPANE-mail:ikko.takahashi@riken.jp
ikkotaka@dmb.chem.tsukuba.ac.jp

Education/Career
2011.3

B.Sc., Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering
Utsunomiya University, Japan (Assoc. Prof. Masaaki Yoshida)2013.3

M.Sc., Division of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science
University of Tsukuba, Japan (Prof. Junji Ichikawa)2017.3

Ph.D. (Science), Division of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science
University of Tsukuba, Japan (Prof. Junji Ichikawa)2017.4-2018.4

Technical Staff, Interdisciplinary Research Center for Catalytic Chemistry
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science Technology (Dr. MasanoriTamura)2018.5-2018.10

Postdoc, Division of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science
University of Tsukuba, Japan (Prof. Junji Ichikawa)2018.11-2019.3

Postdoc, Interdisciplinary Research Center for Catalytic Chemistry
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science Technology (Dr. NagatoshiKoumura)2019.4-2022.3

Postdoc, Advanced Organic Synthesis Research TeamRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (Dr. Laurean Ilies)

2021.4–Present

Special Postdoctoral Researcher, Advanced Organic Synthesis Research TeamRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (Dr. Laurean Ilies)

Fellowship and Grant
2022.4–2025.3 RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Researcher (SPDR) Program [Fellowship]2022.4–2024.3

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists [Research Grant]Award
2021 JSPC Award for Excellence (JSPC 2021 Summer Symposium, Japan)
2022 CSRS Incentive Award
Publication List1) T. Fujita, I. Takahashi, M. Hayashi, J. Wang, K. Fuchibe, J. Ichikawa*“Facile Synthesis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Dehydrative
Cycloaromatization of Carbonyl Compounds in 1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexafluoropropan-2-ol”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 262–265. <Selected as Conference Collections: 22nd ISFC>

2) I. Takahashi, M. Hayashi, T. Fujita, J. Ichikawa*“Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Tandem Cycloaromatization of Naphthalene-Based Bisacetals:
Selective Synthesis of ortho-Fused Six-Hexagon Benzenoids”
Chem. Lett. 2017, 46, 392–394.

3) I. Takahashi, T. Fujita, N. Shoji, J. Ichikawa*“Brønsted Acid-Catalysed Hydroarylation of Unactivated Alkynes in a Fluoroalcohol-Hydrocarbon Biphasic System: Construction of Phenanthrene Frameworks”
Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 9267–9270. <Selected as Front Cover>Volume 55 Number 63 14 August 2019 Pages 9219–9404

ChemComm
Chemical Communications
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ISSN 1359-7345

COMMUNICATION
Junji Ichikawa et al.
Brønsted acid-catalysed hydroarylation of unactivatedalkynes in a fluoroalcohol–hydrocarbon biphasic system:
construction of phenanthrene frameworks

4) T. Ichitsuka,* I. Takahashi, N. Koumura,* K. Sato, S. Kobayashi*“Continuous Synthesis of Aryl Amines from Phenols Utilizing Integrated Packed-Bed FlowSystems”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 15891–15896. <Selected as Hot Paper>5) S. Asako,* I. Takahashi, H. Nakajima, L. Ilies, K. Takai*“Halogen–Sodium Exchange Enables Efficient Access to Organosodium Compounds”
Commun. Chem. 2021, 4, 76. <Highlighted in Nat. Rev. Chem.>
ChemRxiv 2020, preprint. (doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv.12378104)
MeMeMeClNa
dispersionMeX

MeNaMeNa

hexane, 0 °C, 10–30 minXNaX = Br, I

halogen–sodium exchange with fresh neopentylsodium6) S. Asako,* I. Takahashi, T. Kurogi, Y. Murakami, L. Ilies, K. Takai*“Birch Reduction of Arenes using Sodium Dispersion and DMI under Mild Conditions”
Chem. Lett. 2022, 51, 38–40.
ONadispersion

NHNFG

FG
tBuOH, THF, 0 °C

H7) T. Fujita,* Y. Kobayashi, I. Takahashi, R. Morioka, T. Ichitsuka, J. Ichikawa*“Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Allyl–Aryl Cross-Electrophile Coupling via Allylic C-F BondActivation”
Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202103643.

Patent List
1) J. Ichikawa, T. Fujita, I. Takahashi,「1,1,1,3,3,3-ヘキサフルオロプロパン-2-オールと脂肪族炭化水素系溶媒を用いた二相系反応媒体」特願 2017-039790
2) J. Ichikawa, T. Fujita, M. Kitajima, I. Takahashi,「含フッ素化合物の製造方法」特願 2022035313