Masayoshi NISHIURA
Date of birth:Sep. 12, 1971

Tel. number:+81-(0)48-467-9390

Fax number:+81-(0)48-467-9391

E-mail address:nishiura@riken.jp

Education
1995

B.Sc. Faculty of Science, Chiba University (Japan)

1997
年

M.Sc. Graduate School of Science, Chiba University (Japan)(Supervisor: Prof. Tsuneo Imamoto)2000

Ph.D. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University (Japan)(Supervisor: Prof. Tsuneo Imamoto)Research and professional experience
2000-2002

Special Postdoctoral Researcher, Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN

2002
年

Research Scientist, Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN(Director: Dr. Zhaomin Hou)

2009-present

Senior Research Scientist, Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN(Director: Dr. Zhaomin Hou)

2013-present

Senior Research Scientist, Advanced Catalysis Research Group, Center for Sustainable
Resource Science, RIKEN

Concurrent posts
2004-

Guest Associate Professor, College of Chemistry, Peking University

2008年

Guest Associate Professor in School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology

年
Awards2009

RIKEN Research Incentive Award

2011

Progress Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan

Selected Publications
1)

B. Wang, M. Nishiura, J. Cheng and Z. Hou,"Half-Sandwich Scandium Boryl Complexes Bearing a Silylene-Linked Cyclopentadienyl-Amido
Ligand "Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 14215-14218.

2)

F. Guo, M. Nishiura, Y. Li, Z. Hou,
"Cyclocopolymerization of 1,6-Heptadiene with Styrene Catalyzed by a Half-Sandwich
Scandium Dialkyl Complex Bearing a Phosphine Oxide Side Arm",
J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem., 2014, 52, 1509-1513.

3)

K. Nishii, X. Kang, M. Nishiura, Y. Luo and Z. Hou,
"Regio- and Stereospecific Living Polymerization and Copolymerization of (E)-1,3-Pentadiene
with 1,3-Butadiene by Half-sandwich Scandium Catalysts",
Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 9030-9032.(a special issue)

4)

B. Guan, B. Wang, M. Nishiura, and Z. Hou,
"Yttrium-Catalyzed Addition of Benzylic C-H Bonds of Alkyl Pyridines to Olefins",
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 4418-4421.

5)

F. Guo, M. Nishiura, Y. Li, and Z. Hou,"Copolymerization of Isoprene and Nonconjugated α,ω-Dienes by Half-Sandwich Scandium
Catalysts with and without a Coordinative Side Arm",
Chem. Asian J., 2013, 8, 2471-2482.
6)

T. Li, M. Nishiura, J. Cheng, Y. Li, and Z. Hou,"M4(CH2)4 Cubane-Type Rare-Earth Methylidene Complexes: Unique Reactivity toward
Unsaturated C-O, C-N, and C-S Bonds",
Chem. Eur. J., 2012, 18, 15079-15085.

7)

F. Guo, M. Nishiura, H. Koshino, and Z. Hou,
"Scandium-Catalyzed Cyclocopolymerization of 1,5-Hexadiene with Styrene and Ethylene:
Efficient Synthesis of Cyclopolyolefins Containing Syndiotactic Styrene-Styrene Sequences andMethylene-1,3-cyclopentane Units",
Macromolecules, 2011, 44, 6335-6344.

8)

J. Oyamada, M. Nishiura, Z. Hou,
"Scandium-Catalyzed Silylation of Aromatic C-H Bonds",
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 10720-10723.

9)

S. Li, J. Cheng, Y. Chen, M. Nishiura, and Z. Hou,
"Rare Earth Metal Boryl Complexes: Synthesis, Structure, and Insertion of a Carbodiimide andCarbon Monoxide"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 6360-6363.

10)

W. Zhang, Z. Wang, M. Nishiura, Z. Xi, and Z. Hou,
"Ln4(CH2)4 Cubane-Type Rare-Earth Methylidene Complexes Consisting of"(C5Me4SiMe3)LnCH2" Units (Ln=Tm,Lu)"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 5712-5717.

11)

F. Guo, M. Nishiura, H. Koshino, Z. Hou,
"Cycloterpolymerization of 1,6-Heptadiene with Ethylene and Styrene Catalyzed by a
THF-Free Half-Sandwich Scandium Complex",
Macromolecules, 2011, 44, 2400-2403.

12)

M. Nishiura, J. Baldamus, T. Shima, K. Mori, Z. Hou,
"Synthesis and Structures of the C5Me4SiMe3-Supported Polyhydride Complexes over the Full
Size Range of the Rare Earth Series",
Chem. Eur. J., 2011, 17 , 5033-5044.

13)

L. Pan, K. Zhang, M. Nishiura, Z.Hou,"Syndiospecific Living Copolymerization of Styrene with e-Caprolactone by Scandium
Catalysts", Macromolecules, 2010, 43, 9591-9593.

14)

M. Nishiura, Z. Hou,
"Novel Polymerization Catalysts and Hydride Clusters from Rare Earth Metal Dialkyls",
Nature Chem., 2010, 2, 257-268.

15)

X. Li, M. Nishiura, L. Hu, K. Mori, Z. Hou,
"Alternating and Random Copolymerization of Isoprene and Ethylene Catalyzed by CationicHalf-Sandwich Scandium Alkyls",
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 13870-13882 .

16)

L. Zhang, M. Nishiura, M. Yuki, Y. Luo, Z. Hou,
"Isoprene Polymerization with Yttrium Amidinate Catalyst: Switching the Regio- andStereoselectivity by Addition of AlMe3"
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 2642-2645 .

17)

M. Nishiura, T. mashiko, Z. Hou,
"Synthesis and Styrene Polymerisation Catalysis of η5- and η1-Pyrrolyl-Ligated Cationic Rare
Earth Metal Aminobenzylcomplexes",
Chem. Commun., 2008, 2019-2021.

18)

X. Li, M. Nishiura, K. Mori, T. Mashiko, Z. Hou,
"Cationic Scandium Aminobenzyl Complexes. Synthesis, Structure and Unprecedented
Catalysis of Copolymerization of 1-Hexene and Dicyclopentadiene",
Chem. Commun., 2007, 4137-4139 .

19)

X. Li, J.Baldamus, M. Nishiura, O. Tardif, Z. Hou,
"Cationic Rare-Earth Polyhydrido Complexes. Synthesis, Structure, and Catalytic Activity forthe cis 1,4-Selective Polymerization of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene",Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 8184-8188 .
20)

W.-X. Zhang, M. Nishiura, Z. Hou,
"Catalytic Addition of Terminal Alkynes to Carbodiimides by half-Sandwich Rare Earth MetalComplexes",
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 16788-16789 .

21)

M. Nishiura, Z. Hou, Y. Wakatsuki,"A Novel Binuclear Samarium(II) Complex Bearing Mixed Cyclopentadienide/Siloxide Ligands:[(C5Me5)Sm{µ-OSi(OtBu)3}3Sm]. Synthesis, Structure, Electron-Transfer, and Unusual
Metal-Coordination Reactions",
Organometallics, 2004, 23, 1359-1368 .

22)

M. Nishiura, Z. Hou, Y. Wakatsuki, T. Yamaki, and T. Miyamoto,"Novel Z-Selective Head-to-Head Dimerization of Terminal Alkynes Catalyzed by Lanthanide
Half-Metallocene Complexes",
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 1184-1185 .