Announcement from The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan

Ryoji Noyori Prize sponsored by Takasago International Corporation
and administered by The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan

Ryoji Noyori Prize , sponsored by Takasago

The purpose of the Prize is to recognize outstanding
contributions to research in asymmetric syntheticchemistry defined in its broadest sense.
The Prize, which consists of a certificate, a medallion,
and $10,000, is bestowed every year to a recipient meetingthe above mentioned criteria. The International Prize
Committee selects a recipient, and the recipient shalldeliver a prize lecture at the annual general meetingof SSOCJ at which the Prize will be presented.

bond-forming cross-couplings using
chiral nickel catalysts. His work on
enantioconvergent reactions ofracemic electrophiles is particularly
notable. Fu also succeeded inasymmetric sp3 carbon–heteroatom
bond-forming cross-couplings
using chiral copper catalysts
under irradiation of light. Unlike
conventional transition metal/
photosensitizer binary catalyst systems,
hissystemneeds only a single catalyst.
Fu's achievements are admired not only for their superb
profiles and the uniqueness of the individual reactions,but also for their role in pioneering new research fields
and applications in organic synthesis.

The Winner of the Prize for the award year 2022 isGregory C. Fu, Norman Chandler Professor of Chemistry,

The past recipients:

International Corporation, was established in 2002 by
The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan(SSOCJ) in commemoration of Professor Ryoji
Noyori's winning of the 2001 Nobel Prize inChemistry as well as the 60th anniversary of SSOCJ.

Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California
Institute of Technology, USA.

Professor Fu has made important contributions tothe development of new synthetic methods based on
his original design of catalysts and reactions. Fu
designed planar-chiral nucleophilic catalysts by fusing
DMAP to ferrocene for a variety of asymmetric
reactions as represented by acylative kinetic
resolution. This achievement, where nitrogen atoms
in designed catalysts function as a “working element”
in asymmetric catalysis, served as an early contribution
to the field of "asymmetric organocatalysis". Fu’s
research interests also include transition-metalcatalysis. He established a way to utilize unreactive
chloroarenes in Pd-catalyzed sp2–sp2 cross-couplings
using tri-t-butylphosphine as a ligand. Fu then turned
his attention to asymmetric sp3–sp3 carbon–carbon(2002)
Henri B. Kagan(2004)
Dieter Seebach
David A. Evans (2006)(2008)
Andreas Pfaltz
Eric N. Jacobsen (2010)
Masakatsu Shibasaki (2012)(2014)
Dieter Enders(2016)
Keiji Maruoka(2018)
Yoshito Kishi
Tsuneo Imamoto (2020)

Gilbert Stork
Tsutomu Katsuki
Tamio Hayashi
Yoshio Okamoto
Hisashi Yamamoto
Barry M. Trost
Larry E. Overman
David W. MacMillan
Scott E. Denmark
Erick M. Carreira(2003)(2005)(2007)(2009)(2011)(2013)(2015)(2017)(2019)(2021)The members of the International Prize
Committee for the award year 2022:
Takeshi Sugai (Chairman)
David W. MacMillan
Takeshi Ohkuma
Michinori Suginome

Scott E. Denmark
Seijiro Matsubara
Tomislav Rovis

Ken Tanaka

Call for Nominations for the Award Year 2023
(Deadline: May 1, 2023)
Any individual may nominate one individual
for the award year 2023 by May 1, 2023.
The nomination form can be downloaded fromthe SSOCJ web site at https://www.ssocj.jp/en/
The documents are retained on file for three
award award years.

Preferred method of submittal is by e-mailattachment of the form.
e-mail address: support@ssocj.or.jp
However, submittal by express or conventional
mail is also acceptable.

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