Hiroaki IMOTO
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 Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
 Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
 Phone: +81-75-383-2611 Fax: +81-75-383-2607
 e-mail: imoto*chujo.synchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp    (* => @)
  
!PERSONAL
*Date of Birth:     Aug. 24, 1984
*Birthplace:     Kobe, Japan

!EDUCATION 
*2007.3 B.S., Dept. of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University 
*2009.3 M.S., Dept. of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University 

!PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
*2009.April- Research Fellow (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists) Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University (Prof. Yoshiki Chujo)
*2009.June-September Visiting researcher, Cornell University ([Prof. Christopher K. Ober Group|http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~cober/index.html])

!AWARD
*2009 KIPS Polymer Symposium for Young Scientists, Poster Award

!FIELD of STUDIES and RESEARCH INTERESTS 
*Polymer Synthesis 
*Organic Synthesis 
*Complex chemistry

!MEMBERS
*[Society of Polymer Science, Japan|http://www.spsj.or.jp/english-index.htm]
*[Chemical Society of Japan|http://www.chemistry.or.jp/index-e.html]
*[the Society of Physical Organic Chemistry, Japan|http://www.jpoc.ac/]

!PAPERS
+Synthesis of Unsymmetrical P-Stereogenic Oligophosphines and Chemoselective Cleavage of Phosphine-Borane Coordinate Bonds
**__Imoto, H.__; Kato, R.; Morisaki, Y.; Chujo, Y. ''Polymer Journal'' in press.
+P-Stereogenic Optically Active Polymer and the Complexation Behavior
**Morisaki, Y.; Suzuki, K.; __Imoto, H.__; Chujo, Y. ''Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics'' '''2011''', ''212(24)'', 2603-2611.
+Synthesis of Enantiomerically Pure P-Stereogenic Diphosphacrowns and Their Palladium Complexes
**Morisaki, Y.; __Imoto, H.__; Hirano, K.; Hayashi, T.; Chujo. Y. ''Journal of Organic Chemistry'' '''2011''', ''76(6)'', 1795-1803.
+Synthesis and Coordination Behaviors of P-Stereogenic Polymers
**__Imoto, H.__; Morisaki, Y.; Chujo, Y. ''Chemical Communications'' '''2010''', ''46(40)'', 7542-7544.
+Synthesis of Optically Active Polymer with P-Stereogenic Phosphine Units
**Morisaki, Y.; Suzuki, K.; __Imoto, H.__; Chujo, Y. ''Macromolecular Rapid Communications'' '''2010''', ''31(19)'', 1719-1724.
+Role of Solvent Dielectric Properties on Charge Transfer from PbS Nanocrystals to Molecules
**Hyun B.-R.; Bartnik, A. C.; Lee, J.-K.; __Imoto, H.__; Sun, L.; Choi, J. J.; Chujo, Y.; Hanrath, T.; Ober, C. K.; Wise, F. W. ''Nano Letters'' '''2010''', ''10(1)'', 318-323.
+Practical Synthesis of P-Stereogenic Diphosphacrowns
**Morisaki, Y.; __Imoto, H.__; Tsurui, K.; Chujo, Y. ''Organic Letters'' '''2009''', ''11(11)'',  2241-2244.
+Synthesis of Optically Active Polymers Using P-Chiral Bisphosphines as Anionic Initiators
**Morisaki, Y.; Saito, K.; __Imoto, H.__; Suzuki, K.; Ouchi, Y.; Chujo, Y. ''Polymer Science Series A'' '''2009''', ''51'', 1218-1228.
+Synthesis and Properties of Oligophenylene-layered Polymers
**Morisaki, Y.; __Imoto, H.__; Miyake, J; Chujo, Y. ''Macromolecular Rapid Communications'' '''2009''', ''30(13)'', 1094-1100.
+Stereospecific Construction of ''trans''-1,4-Diphosphacyclohexane Skeleton 
**Morisaki, Y.; __Imoto, H.__; Ouchi, Y.; Nagata, Y.; Chujo, Y.  ''Organic Letters'' '''2008''', ''10(7)'', 1489-1492.