Hiroaki Imoto

Hiroaki IMOTO

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)

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
• Chemical Society of Japan
• the Society of Physical Organic Chemistry, Japan

PAPERS

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. Synthesis and Coordination Behaviors of P-Stereogenic Polymers
   • Imoto, H.; Morisaki, Y.; Chujo, Y. Chemical Communications 2010, 46(40), 7542-7544.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. Practical Synthesis of P-Stereogenic Diphosphacrowns
   • Morisaki, Y.; Imoto, H.; Tsurui, K.; Chujo, Y. Organic Letters 2009, 11(11), 2241-2244.

1. 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.

1. Synthesis and Properties of Oligophenylene-layered Polymers
   • Morisaki, Y.; Imoto, H.; Miyake, J; Chujo, Y. Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2009, 30(13), 1094-1100.

1. 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.