Jirō Tsuji

Jirō Tsuji ( Japanese 辻 二郎 , Tsuji Jirō ; born May 11, 1927 in Shiga ) is a Japanese chemist .

Life

Tsuji earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Kyoto University in 1951 and then worked for a pharmaceutical company for several years. As a Fulbright Fellow , he went to the United States for doctoral studies . In 1960 he received a Ph.D. at Columbia University . In his of Gilbert Stork supervised dissertation he focused on synthesis of natural products , including the total synthesis of vitamin D . After returning to Japan, he worked in basic research at Toray Industries Inc. from 1962 . From 1974 to 1988 he was professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology , from 1988 to 1996 at the Okayama University of Science and from 1996 at the Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts . In 1999 he retired .

Tsuji works in the field of organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis . He develops new synthetic reactions that are catalyzed by complexes of transition metals , in particular palladium complexes . He uses these reactions in the total synthesis of natural products . The Tsuji-Trost reaction , a palladium-catalyzed alkylation of allyl compounds , is named after him and Barry Trost .

He married in 1952 and has three children.

Awards

• 1981 Chemical Society of Japan Award
• 1994 Medal on the Violet Ribbon (Japan)
• 1998 Special Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
• 2004 Japan Academy Prize
• 2014 Tetrahedron Prize

He is a member of the Chemical Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society .

Works

• Jiro Tsuji: Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Vitamin D. Synthetic Studies Related to the aconite-arrya Alkaloids. Thesis, Columbia University, 1961
• Jiro Tsuji: Organic Synthesis by Means of Transition Metal Complexes. A Systematic Approach (= Reactivity and Structure, Volume 1). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York 1975, ISBN 3-540-07227-6 , ISBN 0-387-07227-6
• Jiro Tsuji: Organic Synthesis with Palladium Compounds (= Reactivity and Structure, Volume 10). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York 1980, ISBN 3-540-09767-8 , ISBN 0-387-09767-8 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-67475-4
• Jiro Tsuji: Palladium Reagents and Catalysts. Innovations in Organic Synthesis. Wiley & Sons, Chichester [et al.] 1995, ISBN 0-471-95483-7
• Jiro Tsuji: Transition Metal Reagents and Catalysts. Innovations in Organic Synthesis. Wiley & Sons, Chichester [et al.] 2000, ISBN 0-471-63498-0 , doi: 10.1002 / 0470854766
• Jiro Tsuji: Palladium Reagents and Catalysts. New Perspectives for the 21st Century. Wiley & Sons, Chichester [ua] 2004, ISBN 0-470-85032-9 , ISBN 0-470-85033-7 , doi: 10.1002 / 0470021209 (2nd edition of Palladium Reagents and Catalysts. Innovations in Organic Synthesis. 1995)
• Jiro Tsuji (Ed.): Perspectives in Organopalladium Chemistry for the XXI Century. Elsevier, Amsterdam and New York 1999, ISBN 0-444-50197-5
• Jiro Tsuji (Ed.): Palladium in Organic Synthesis (= Topics in Organometallic Chemistry , Volume 14). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York 2005, ISBN 3-540-23982-0 , doi: 10.1007 / b84215

literature

• Jiro Tsuji and Tadakatsu Mandai: Palladium-Catalyzed Reactions of Propargylic Compounds in Organic Synthesis. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English . Volume 34, No. 23–24, January 5, 1996, pp. 2589–2612, doi: 10.1002 / anie.199525891 (on p. 2590 short curriculum vitae with picture)
• Y. Yamamoto: A profile of Professor Jiro Tsuji. Pioneering works on palladium mediated C – C bond forming reactions. In: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry . Vol 576, No. 1-2, March 15, 1999, pp. Xi-xiii, doi: 10.1016 / S0022-328X (98) 01135-8
• Contemporary Authors. Volume 231, Thomson Gale, Detroit [ua] 2005, ISBN 0-7876-7860-0 , ISSN  0010-7468 , p. 416 ( beginning of article )

Web links

• Life dates, publications and academic family tree of Jiro Tsuji at academictree.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Original articles: Barry M. Trost: Transition Metal Templates for Selectivity in Organic Synthesis. In: Pure Appl. Chem. . Volume 53, No. 12, 1981, pp. 2357-2370, doi: 10.1351 / pac198153122357 ; Jiro Tsuji: Catalytic Reactions via π-Allylpalladium Complexes. In: Pure Appl. Chem. Vol. 54, No. 1, 1982, pp. 197-206, doi: 10.1351 / pac198254010197