Basic Information

Faculty

• Faculty of Engineering

Email Address

• Email Address

  okumura.shintaro.6ekyoto-u.ac.jp

Professional Memberships

• 日本化学会
• 有機合成化学協会

Academic Degree

• 23 Mar. 2015

  京都大学修士（工学）
• 23 May 2018

  京都大学博士（工学）

Academic Resume (Graduate Schools)

• 京都大学, 大学院工学研究科博士後期課程合成・生物化学専攻, 修了
• 京都大学, 大学院工学研究科博士後期課程合成・生物化学専攻, 研究指導認定退学
• 京都大学, 大学院工学研究科修士課程物質エネルギー化学専攻, 修了

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• 京都大学, 工学部工業化学科, 卒業

Research History

• From Jan. 2020, To Mar. 2024

  Institute for Molecular Science, Assistant Professor
• From Jan. 2020, To Mar. 2024

  総合研究大学院大学, 助教
• From Apr. 2018, To Dec. 2019

  信越化学工業株式会社 合成技術研究所 研究員

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0002-6503-9040

• J-Global ID

  202301000887083493

• Researcher number

  00871378

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/shintarookumura

Research

Research Interests

• 有機光化学
• 有機合成化学

Research Areas

• Nanotechnology/Materials, Synthetic organic chemistry

Papers

• Using Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy to Evaluate the Bond Lengths of sp2-hybridized Carbons in Organic Solvents: Tracking the C–Si Bond Length during the Hiyama Cross-Coupling Reaction

  Shintaro Okumura; Masanari Nagasaka; Shun Ichii; Go Hamasaka; Yasuhiro Uozumi

  25 Jun. 2025

  
• Multielectron Reduction of Esters by a Diazabenzacenaphthenium Photoredox Catalyst

  Shintaro Okumura; Shusuke Hattori; Lisa Fang; Yasuhiro Uozumi

  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 13 Jun. 2024, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Transfer hydrogenation of aldehydes and ketones with tetrahydroxydiboran in water by an amphiphilic resin-supported nano-palladium catalyst

  Kaili Zhang; Shintaro Okumura; Yasuhiro Uozumi

  Chemistry Letters, 02 May 2024

  
• Transfer Hydrogenolysis of O‐ and N‐Benzyl Groups in Water with Tetrahydroxydiboron by Using an Amphiphilic Polymer‐Supported Nano‐Palladium Catalyst

  Kaili Zhang; Shintaro Okumura; Yasuhiro Uozumi

  European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 15 Apr. 2024

  
• Photocatalytic 1,4-Addition of Aromatic Aldehydes or Ketones via Umpoled Carbinol Anions

  Shintaro Okumura; Teruki Takahashi; Kaoru Torii; Yasuhiro Uozumi

  Synlett, 04 Jul. 2023, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Electrophilic 1,4-Addition of Carbon Dioxide and Aldehydes to Enones

  Shintaro Okumura; Kaoru Torii; Yasuhiro Uozumi

  Organic Letters, 20 Jun. 2023, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Photocatalytic Cross‐Pinacol Coupling Promoted by Carbon Dioxide

  Shintaro Okumura; Teruki Takahashi; Kaoru Torii; Yasuhiro Uozumi

  Chemistry – A European Journal, 26 May 2023, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Photocatalytic Carbinol Cation/Anion Umpolung: Direct Addition of Aromatic Aldehydes and Ketones to Carbon Dioxide

  Shintaro Okumura; Yasuhiro Uozumi

  Organic Letters, 17 Sep. 2021, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Synthesis of 2-Aryloxy-1,3-dienes from Phenols and Propargyl Carbonates

  Ishida, N.; Hori, Y.; Okumura, S.; Murakami, M.

  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019

  
• C–H/C–F functionalization by E-selective ruthenium (II) catalysis

  Dhawa, U.; Zell, D.; Yin, R.; Okumura, S.; Murakami, M.; Ackermann, L.

  Journal of Catalysis, 2018

  
• Site- and regio-selective incorporation of carbon dioxide into the C(sp²)Si bond of benzosilacyclobutenes

  Ishida, N.; Okumura, S.; Murakami, M.

  Chemistry Letters, 2018

  
• 2-Arylsilacyclobutane as a Latent Carbanion Reacting with CO2

  Ishida, N.; Okumura, S.; Kawasaki, T.; Murakami, M.

  Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2018

  
• Palladium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Exchange between C-C and C-Si σ-Bonds

  Okumura, S.; Sun, F.; Ishida, N.; Murakami, M.

  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, Lead author

  
• Measurements of production cross sections of 10Be and 26Al by 120 GeV and 392 MeV proton bombardment of 89Y, 159Tb, and natCu targets

  S. Sekimoto; S. Okumura; H. Yashima; Y. Matsushi; H. Matsuzaki; H. Matsumura; A. Toyoda; K. Oishi; N. Matsuda; Y. Kasugai; Y. Sakamoto; H. Nakashima; D. Boehnlein; R. Coleman; G. Lauten; A. Leveling; N. Mokhov; E. Ramberg; A. Soha; K. Vaziri; K. Ninomiya; T. Omoto; T. Shima; N. Takahashi; A. Shinohara; M.W. Caffee; K.C. Welten; K. Nishiizumi; S. Shibata; T. Ohtsuki

  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Oct. 2015

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• Ring-opening fluorination of cyclobutanols and cyclopropanols catalyzed by silver

  Ishida, N.; Okumura, S.; Nakanishi, Y.; Murakami, M.

  Chemistry Letters, 2015

  

Industrial Property Rights

• 特開2022-183433, 特願2021-090745, アミノオルガノキシアルコキシシラン化合物の製造方法

  奥村慎太郎; 殿村洋一

  

Awards

• 26 Sep. 2017

  有機金属化学討論会ポスター賞（近畿化学協会）
• 16 Feb. 2022

  富士フイルム研究企画賞（有機合成化学協会）
• 13 Sep. 2014

  若手優秀発表賞（日本放射化学会）

External funds: Kakenhi

• 新規光触媒によるエステルの4電子還元と極性転換

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

  Basic Section 33020:Synthetic organic chemistry-related

  Kyoto University

  奥村 慎太郎

  From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2027, Granted

  多電子還元;極性転換;エステル;光酸化還元触媒;カルビノールジアニオン

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-24K17688/
• エステルを起点とした光触媒ラジカル反応の開発

  Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)

  Transformative Research Areas, Section (II)

  Kyoto University

  奥村 慎太郎

  From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2026, Granted

  光酸化還元触媒;エステル還元;ラジカルカップリング

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PUBLICLY-24H01873/
• Carbonyl umpolung and addition to second carbonyls through two-electron reduction

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

  Basic Section 33020:Synthetic organic chemistry-related

  Institute for Molecular Science

  Shintaro Okumura

  From 01 Apr. 2021, To 31 Mar. 2024, Project Closed

  極性転換;カルボニル化合物;光酸化還元触媒;二酸化炭素;カルビノールアニオン;ホモエノラートアニオン;α-ヒドロキシカルボアニオン

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K14635/

Academic, Social Contribution

Committee Memberships

• From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2024

  Synfacts誌寄稿委員

Social Contribution

• 愛知県立岡崎北高等学校理数科 出前授業

  Lecturer

  愛知県立岡崎北高等学校, From 19 Jan. 2024