The Art of Process Chemistry

Nobuyoshi Yasuda received his bachelor from Tokyo Institute of Technology under the direction of Professor Teruaki Mukaiyama and Professor Hisashi Takei and his mater degree from the same university under the direction of Professor Hisashi Takei. After working at Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Company, Japan as a Medicinal Chemist, he received Ph. D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1987. After spend one year as a postdoctoral fellow under Professor Robert M. Williams at Colorado State University from 1988 to 1989, he joined in Process Chemistry, Merck Research Laboratories in 1990. He has over 60 publications and over 50 patents.