Kenso Soai

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Kensō Soai ( Japanese 硤 合 憲 三 , Soai Kensō ; * 1950 ) is a Japanese chemist ( organic chemistry ). He is a professor in the Applied Chemistry Department of the Tokyo University of Natural Sciences .

Soai studied at the University of Tokyo , where he received his doctorate under Teruaki Mukaiyama in 1979 and was then a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science . As a post-doctoral student he was with Ernest L. Eliel at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until 1981 . In 1981 he became a lecturer at the Tokyo University of Natural Sciences with his own research group. In 1986 he became an associate professor and in 1991 he was given a full professorship.

He deals with asymmetric and enantioselective organic synthesis , asymmetric autocatalysis , the origin of chirality , organometallic chemistry , biochemistry and materials science .

The Soai reaction is named after him.

In 2000 he received the Inoue Prize . He has received several awards in synthetic organic chemistry in Japan, was a Novartis Lecturer at ETH Zurich in 2006 and a Merck Lecturer at Stanford in 2004. In 2007 he received the Science and Technology Prize from the Japanese Ministry of Culture . In 2005 he received the Chirality Medal. In 2012 he received the Japanese Medal on the Purple Ribbon and in 2010 the Chemical Society of Japan Award. He was visiting professor at various Japanese universities, in Paris and Strasbourg and at Jilin University .

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences .

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  • Editor: Amplification of Chirality, Topics in current chemistry 284, Springer 2008

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