Masakatsu Shibasaki


Masakatsu Shibasaki is a Japanese chemist. In 1974 he earned his doctorate in chemistry, in the group of Shun’ichi Yamada. He did a post doc with Elias J. Corey at Harvard. He returned to Japan and became a professor in 1977 at Teikyō University and moved to Hokkaidō University 1986. 1983-1986 Shibasaki was a research group leader at the Sagami chemical research center. From 1991 until 2010 he served as professor at Tokyo University. Since 2010 he is representative director of Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation, Tokyo. He is perhaps best known for developing a range of binol based heterobimetallic catalysts, which now bear his name.
Since 1981 many prominent prizes have been awarded to Masakatsu Shibasaki:
Shibasaki is the author or coauthor of more than 520 scientific publications and holds ~40 patents. His Hirsch number is 73.

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His research interests are focussed on the development of new synthetic methods, the design of biologically significant compounds and synthetic studies of such compounds.