Superbases for Organic Synthesis: Guanidines, Amidines, Phosphazenes and Related Organocatalysts

Professor Tsutomu Ishikawa, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Japan
Professor Ishikawa leads a laboratory of researchers at Chiba University in the fields of drug-oriented organic chemistry, natural product chemistry, guanidine-based organic reactions, synthetic studies on aziridines, and the preparation of new polymer-supported reagents. He has published 30 papers, including "Guanidines in Organic Synthesis" - one of the top 5 most downloaded papers of 2006 in the leading organic chemistry journal Synthesis.