Hidetoshi Tokuyama
Tohoku University
Biography
Hidetoshi Tokuyama is a Professor at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He obtained a BSc., MSc., and PhD in Chemistry from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990, 1992, and 1994, respectively, in the group of Professor Eiichi Nakamura. After spending a year as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Professor Amos. B. Smith, III at the Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, started his academic career as an assistant professor in the group of Professor Tohru Fukuyama at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo in 1996, where he was promoted to a lecturer and later an associate professor. Since 2006, he has been a full professor at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University.
Professor Tokuyama's research focuses on the development of synthetic methodologies including highly chemoselective functional group interconversions and the construction of N-containing heterocycles, and the total synthesis of structurally complex natural products.
RSC affiliations
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