Rate My Professor Tomohiro Yasukawa

The research in Yasukawa's laboratory centers on the development of heterogeneous catalysts for green and sustainable organic reactions. Key efforts involve using carbon-based materials, particularly nitrogen-doped carbon, as supports to create metal nanoparticle catalysts and single-atom catalysts (SACs) with strong metal-support interactions and localized single metal active sites. These catalysts facilitate diverse transformations, including hydrogenation, aerobic oxidation, C-C bond forming reactions, and carbene insertion reactions. Additional interests encompass electrochemical synthesis, where catalysts serve as electrodes, and continuous flow reactions for enhanced safety, efficiency, and scalability. His work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals including Good Health and Well-being, Affordable and Clean Energy, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, and Climate Action. Notable recent publications include 'Earth-Abundant Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of 1-Bromo-Cyclobut-1-enes with Grignard Reagents' (Synlett, 2025), '[4+2] Cycloadditions (Normal-Electron-Demand Hetero-Diels–Alder Reaction)' (Comprehensive Chirality, 2024), 'Biocatalytic Enantioselective Reduction of Cyclopropenyl Esters and Ketones Using Ene-Reductases' (ACS Catalysis, 2024), 'Continuous-Flow Asymmetric Hydrogenation for the Synthesis of an (S)-Metolachlor Intermediate Using Catalysts Immobilized on a Core/Shell-Type Support' (Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 2024), and 'Development of nitrogen-doped carbon-supported metal catalysts for green organic synthesis' (Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2024).