Basic Information

Academic Degree

• 博士（薬科学）(京都大学)
• 修士（薬科学）(京都大学)

Research History

• From Dec. 2021, To Present

  卓越研究員
• From Dec. 2021, To Present

  京都大学白眉センター
• From Dec. 2021, To Present

  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Program-Specific Assistant Professor (
• From Dec. 2019, To Nov. 2021

  Research Foundation ITSUU Laboratory, Researcher
• From Jul. 2018, To Nov. 2019

  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Program-Specific Assistant Professor
• From Jun. 2016, To Jun. 2018

  University of California Berkeley, Department of Chemistry, JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow
• From Apr. 2016, To May 2016

  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Post-Doctoral Fellow

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0003-0952-7098

• J-Global ID

  202001010134943329

• Researcher number

  60870863

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/makkuro96suke

Research

Papers

• 1,1-Carboamination of Terminal Alkenes via a Reaction of Azo-Ene Adducts with Grignard Reagents

  Yusuke Kuroda

  Organic Letters, 26 Aug. 2022, Peer-reviewed

  
• Remarkable Solvent Effect of Fluorinated Alcohols on Azo–Ene Reactions

  Yusuke Kuroda

  Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, May 2022, Peer-reviewed

  
• Palladium-Catalyzed [1,3]-O-to-N Rearrangement of Allylic ­Imidates

  Yusuke Kuroda

  Synlett, Jan. 2022, Peer-reviewed

  
• C–C Bond Cleavage Approach to Complex Terpenoids: Development of a Unified Total Synthesis of the Phomactins

  Paul R Leger; Yusuke Kuroda; Stanley Chang; Justin Jurczyk; Richmond Sarpong

  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 16 Aug. 2020, Peer-reviewed

  
• C–C Cleavage Approach to C–H Functionalization of Saturated Aza-Cycles

  Jose B. Roque; Yusuke Kuroda; Justin Jurczyk; Li-Ping Xu; Jin Su Ham; Lucas T. Göttemann; Charis A. Roberts; Donovon Adpressa; Josep Saurí; Leo A. Joyce; Djamaladdin G. Musaev; Charles S. Yeung; Richmond Sarpong

  ACS Catalysis, 06 Mar. 2020, Peer-reviewed

  
• Catalyst-enabled Site-selectivity in the Iridium-catalyzed C–H Borylation of Arenes

  Yusuke Kuroda; Yoshiaki Nakao

  Chemistry Letters, 05 Sep. 2019, Peer-reviewed

  
• Asymmetric Formal Synthesis of (+)-Catharanthine via Desymmetrization of Isoquinuclidine

  Masato Kono; Shingo Harada; Tomoyuki Nozaki; Yoshinori Hashimoto; Shun-ichi Murata; Harald Gröger; Yusuke Kuroda; Ken-ichi Yamada; Kiyosei Takasu; Yasumasa Hamada; Tetsuhiro Nemoto

  Organic Letters, 17 May 2019, Peer-reviewed

  
• Optical resolution via catalytic generation of chiral auxiliary

  Hiroki Kiyama; Tsubasa Inokuma; Yusuke Kuroda; Yousuke Yamaoka; Kiyosei Takasu; Ken-ichi Yamada

  Tetrahedron Letters, Jan. 2019, Peer-reviewed

  
• Deconstructive diversification of cyclic amines

  Jose B. Roque; Yusuke Kuroda; Lucas T. Göttemann; Richmond Sarpong

  Nature, Dec. 2018, Peer-reviewed

  
• Isolation, synthesis and bioactivity studies of phomactin terpenoids

  Yusuke Kuroda; Karen J. Nicacio; Ildefonso Alves da Silva-Jr; Paul R. Leger; Stanley Chang; Juliana R. Gubiani; Victor M. Deflon; Nozomu Nagashima; Alexander Rode; Katherine Blackford; Antonio G. Ferreira; Lara D. Sette; David E. Williams; Raymond J. Andersen; Sonia Jancar; Roberto G. S. Berlinck; Richmond Sarpong

  Nature Chemistry, 30 Sep. 2018, Peer-reviewed

  
• Deconstructive fluorination of cyclic amines by carbon-carbon cleavage

  Jose B. Roque; Yusuke Kuroda; Lucas T. Göttemann; Richmond Sarpong

  Science, 13 Jul. 2018, Peer-reviewed

  
• Asymmetric substitution reactions catalyzed by a chiral phosphoric acid

  Yusuke Kuroda; Shingo Harada; Ken-Ichi Yamada; Kiyosei Takasu

  Yuki Gosei Kagaku Kyokaishi/Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 2018, Peer-reviewed

  
• Desymmetrization of acid anhydride with asymmetric esterification catalyzed by chiral phosphoric acid

  Ken-ichi Yamada; Akinori Oonishi; Yusuke Kuroda; Shingo Harada; Hiroki Kiyama; Yousuke Yamaoka; Kiyosei Takasu

  Tetrahedron Letters, 2016, Peer-reviewed

  
• Use of a Catalytic Chiral Leaving Group for Asymmetric Substitutions at sp3-Hybridized Carbon Atoms: Kinetic Resolution of β-Amino Alcohols by p-Methoxybenzylation

  Yusuke Kuroda; Shingo Harada; Akinori Oonishi; Hiroki Kiyama; Yousuke Yamaoka; Ken-Ichi Yamada; Kiyosei Takasu

  Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2016, Peer-reviewed

  
• Organocatalytic Enantioselective Intramolecular SN2′ Reaction

  Synfacts, 20 Jul. 2015, Peer-reviewed

  
• Organocatalytic Activation of the Leaving Group in the Intramolecular Asymmetric SN2′ Reaction

  Yusuke Kuroda; Shingo Harada; Akinori Oonishi; Yousuke Yamaoka; Ken-Ichi Yamada; Kiyosei Takasu

  Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 01 Jul. 2015, Peer-reviewed

  
• Synthesis of 2,3,4,5-tetra-substituted pyrroles via a base-promoted double Michael reaction of oxime-enoates with nitroolefins

  Yusuke Kuroda; Kazuto Imaizumi; Ken-Ichi Yamada; Yosuke Yamaoka; Kiyosei Takasu

  Tetrahedron Letters, 31 Jul. 2013, Peer-reviewed

  
• Selective synthesis of polysubstituted dihydroquinolines and α,β-unsaturated amidines by a catalytic reaction of ynamides with ketimines

  Yuusuke Kuroda; Naoya Shindoh; Yoshiji Takemoto; Kiyosei Takasu

  Synthesis (Germany), 2013, Peer-reviewed

  

External funds: Kakenhi

• エン反応を利用したアリル位炭素－水素結合の自在変換

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

  Basic Section 47010:Pharmaceutical chemistry and drug development sciences-related

  Kyoto University

  黒田 悠介

  From 01 Apr. 2021, To 31 Mar. 2023, Granted

  アルケン;エン反応;アゾ化合物;C－H官能基化;遷移金属;不斉反応

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K15237/

Education

Teaching subject(s)

• From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023

  Pharmaceutical Laboratory II : Organic Chemistry

  C902, Spring, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 3
• From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023

  Pharmaceutical Laboratory 2 : Organic Chemistry

  A902, Spring, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4