International Workshop on Molecular Catalysis and Fine Chemicals 2015
Date: January 29, 2015
Place: International Center, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
http://www.ic.tmu.ac.jp/english/siteinfo/access.html
Program
9:55 Introductory: Kotohiro Nomura
10:00-10:25 Prof. Bohari M. Yamin (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia)
10:25-10:50 Prof. Zeena S. Pillai (Amrita University, Kerala, India)
10:50-11:15 Prof. Hathaikarn Manuspiya (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
11:15-11:40 Prof. P. Venuvanalingam (Bharathidasan University, India)
11:40-12:05 Prof. Vu Dinh Hoang (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam)
Lunch
13:30:-13:55 Prof. Kotohiro Nomura (TMU, Japan)
13:55-14:20 Dr. Preeyanuch Sangtrirutnugul (Mahidol University, Thailand)
14:20-14:45 Prof. Ekasith Somsook (Mahidol University, Thailand)
14:55-15:20 Prof. Sanshiro Komiya (TMU, Japan)
15:20-15:45 Prof. Khamphee Phomphrai (Mahidol University, Thailand)
15:45-16:10 Dr. Wenhong Yang (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
16:10-16:35 Prof. Boonyarach Kitiyanan (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
16:40-17:20 Special Lecture: Prof. Kotaro Osakada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
17:30- Group DiscussionSponsored by
1) “Molecular Catalysis as basis in Green Sustainable Chemistry for
Environmentally Benign Urban Life,” Tokyo Metropolitan Government“Asian Human Resources Fund” (Priority Research Program, International
Student Special Selection at Tokyo Metropolitan University)
http://www.comp.tmu.ac.jp/tmuorg/MolecularCatalysis.html
2) International collaboration research program, TMU
Coordinator: Prof. Kotohiro Nomura, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

List of Speakers
Special Lecture
Prof. Kotaro Osakada
Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan“Organotransition metal complexes with new structures and chemical properties”
Invited Speakers
Prof. Dr. Vu Dinh Hoang
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pesticide Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam“Phytochemical study of some Vietnamese plants”
Prof. Boonyarach Kitiyanan
The Petroleum and Petrochemical College, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand“Methylation of benzene by methyl bromide using H-ZSM5 catalyst”
Prof. Hathaikarn Manuspiya
The Petroleum and Petrochemical College, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand“Innovation of smart packagings derived from mesoporous materials and smart nanoconposite for OLED fabrication”
Prof. Khamphee Phomphrai
Department of Chemistry, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand“Transesterification of cyclic esters using simple metal amides: new route to double-capped oligomers”
Prof. Zeena S. Pillai
Department of Chemistry, Amrita University, Kerala, India“Dendrimers - Ligands for sensitized lanthanide emission”
Dr. Preeyanuch Sangtrirutnugul
Department of Chemistry, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand“Triazole-based ligands in Cu-catalyzed aerobic alcohol oxidation”
Prof. Ekasith Somsook
Department of Chemistry, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand“Iron oxide/cassava starch-supported Ziegler-Natta Catalysts for in situ ethylene polymerization”
Prof. P. Venuvanalingam
School of Chemistry, Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, India“Enzyme and Organometallic Catalysis of Cleavage of Epoxides”
Prof. Dr. Bohari M. Yamin
School of Chemical Sciences and Food Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Malaysia“Calix[4] resorcinarene derivatives. Synthesis, structure and applications”
Dr. Wenhong Yang
Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China“Catalytic activity and reaction mechanism of iron complex precatalyst in ethylene polymerization”

Host Speakers
Prof. Sanshiro Komiya
Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan; Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Emeritus)“Bridged and non-bridged heterodinuclear Pt-Mn complexes control stereochemistry of C-S bond cleavage of thiirane and thietane”
Prof. Kotohiro Nomura
Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan“Design and synthesis of (imido)vanadium complex catalysts for olefin polymerization/oligomerization”