Shunichi Hashimoto

Shunichi Hashimoto, Ph.D.

Professor of Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Hokkaido University

 Shunichi Hashimoto was born in Tokyo in Oct. 8th, 1949. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1972 and received his Ph.D. from the same university in 1978 under the direction of Professor Kenji Koga. His thesis focused on asymmetric carbon-carbon bond forming reactions via chelate intermediates. He began his academic career in 1976 as Research Associate in the laboratory of Professor Koga. From 1978 to 1980, he worked as a postdoctoralfellow at Harvard University with Professor E. J. Corey. Back in Japan, he worked as Research Associate at Nagoya University with Professor Ryoji Noyori from 1981 to 1983, and then moved to Teikyo University as an associate professor, where he worked with Professor Shiro Ikegami for about nine years. In 1992, he joined Hokkaido University as Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. In 1982, he received the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists, and he was the 1992 recipient of the Award of the Japan Research Foundation for Optically Active Compounds. His current projects are mainly concerned with (1) enantioselective carbene transformations catalyzed by chiral dirhodium(II) complexes,(2) synthesis of a new class of chiral spirocyclic bisphosphite ligands for catalytic enantioselective reactions, (3) total syntheses of zaragozic acids and pinnatoxins, and (4) chemoselective glycosidation strategy based on glycosyl donors and acceptors carrying phosphorus-containing leaving groups.


Department ofSynthetic and Industrial Chemistry


Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences


HokkaidoUniversity