Announcement from The Society of Symthetic Organic Chemistry, JapanMukaiyama Award
Administered by The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, JapanMukaiyama Award was launched in 2005 by The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (SSOCJ), tocelebrate the 77th birthday of Professor Teruaki Mukaiyama who received the Order of Culture in 1997 from theJapanese government for his outstanding contributions to synthetic organic chemistry and to commemorate his election
in 2004 to the National Academy of Science, U.S.A., as a foreign associate.
The purpose of the award is to recognize and encourage outstanding contributions to synthetic organic chemistry.
The award, which consists of $3,000, a medallion, and a certificate, is bestowed every year upon an individual of 45years old or younger as of April 1 in the year concerned, who has made outstanding contrbutions to synthetic organicchemistry. The awardee, selected by the award committee, shall deliver an award lecture at the Seminar on Synthetic
Organic Chemistry where the award will be presented.

The Winners of the Award for the award year 2023 are Professor Sarah E. Reisman and Professor Naoya Kumagai.

Professor Sarah E. Reisman

Professor Naoya Kumagai

Bren Professor of Chemistry
Division of Chemistry & Chemical
Engineering, California Institute ofTechnology Pasadena, CA, USA

Graduate School of PharmaceuticalSciences, Keio University, Japan

Contributions: Research in the Reisman
laboratory seeks to advance the science ofchemical synthesis, through synergistic
contributions in both strategy design for
natural product synthesis and reaction
development. Reisman is recognized as aleader in the area of natural productsynthesis, where her group has contributed
new strategy-driven approaches severalcomplex highly oxidized natural products. Inaddition to her program in natural productsynthesis, Reisman has made impactful
contributions to the rapidly advancing fieldof Ni-catalysis, with an emphasis on
asymmetric reductive cross-coupling reactions.

Contributions: The development of synthetic
methodologies driven by cooperative catalysts,
unique heterocycles, and quinoline oligomers.
The research directed by Kumagai has
focused on the development of novel metalbased cooperative catalytic systems that haveallowed for otherwise infeasible catalytic
asymmetric transformations to proceed. His
insatiable curiosity into catalyst design has
provided a novel class of proficient catalysts
utilizing boron-containing exotic heterocyclicentities. His research interests have expanded
to the investigation of quinoline-based
aesthetic molecular architectures, whichpertain to diverse areas of chemistry research.

The members of the Mukaiyama Award Committee for the award year 2023 are as follows:
Takeshi Sugai*
Yujiro Hayashi
Masayuki Inoue
Seijiro Matsubara
Takashi Ooi*Chairman

Call for Nominations for the Award Year 2024
(Deadline: August 1, 2023)
Any individual may nominate one individual
for the award year 2024. The nomination
form can be downloaded from the SSOCJ
web site at https://www.ssocj.jp/en/
The pertinent documents are retained on file forthree award years. The nominations deadline
for the award year 2024 is August 1, 2023.
While submission of the nomination form by
e-mail to support@ssocj.or.jp is preferred,submission by regular mail is also accepted.

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