RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research Laboratory for Chemical Biology
Team Leader: Takamitsu Hosoya (Ph.D.)
Research Summary
In order to achieve the promotion of human live science and drug discovery, it is necessary to develop new methods and tools realized by the innovative chemistries. Through the researches under collaboration with a number of scientists of different disciplines, we are looking to face with significant challenges including development of useful PET probes for in vivo imaging of target molecules, novel strategies for efficient PET probe synthesis, chemical tools and methods that facilitate chemical biology researches, and development of efficient synthetic methods of valuable compounds.
Main Research Fields
- Chemistry
Related Research Fields
- Medicine, Dentistry & Pharmacy
Keywords
- Engineering
- Biology & Biochemistry
- Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Clinical Medicine
- Neuroscience & Behavior
Selected Publications
- 1.Sumida, Y., Sumida, T., Hosoya, T.:
"Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Cross-Coupling of Aryl Triflates and Nonaflates with Alkyl Iodides"
Synthesis, 49 (16), 3582–3589 (2017). - 2.Niwa, T., Ochiai, H., Isoda, M., Hosoya, T.:
"Facile Transformation of α,β-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acids to Alkenylboronic Esters via Rhodium-Catalyzed Decarbonylative Borylation of α,β-Unsaturated Thioesters"
Chem. Lett. 46 (9), 1315–1318 (2017). - 3.Niwa, T., Ochiai, H., Hosoya, T.:
"Copper-Catalyzed ipso-Borylation of Fluoroarenes"
ACS Catal. 7(7), 4535-4541 (2017). - 4.Ochiai, H., Uetake, Y., Niwa, T., Hosoya, T.:
"Rhodium-Catalyzed Decarbonylative Borylation of Aromatic Thioesters for Facile Diversification of Aromatic Carbocyclic Acids"
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 56(9), 2482-2486 (2017). - 5.Ochiai, H., Niwa, T., Hosoya, T.:
"Stereoinversion of Stereocongested Carbocyclic Alcohols via Triflylation and Subsequent Treatment with Aqueous N,N-Dimethylformamide"
Org. Lett. 18(23), 5982-5985 (2016). - 6.Sumida, Y., Sumida, T., Hashizume, D., Hosoya, T.:
"Preparation of Aryne-Nickel Complexes from ortho-Borylaryl Triflates"
Org. Lett. 18(21), 5600-5603 (2016). - 7.Uetake, Y., Niwa, T., Hosoya, T.:
"Rhodium-Catalyzed ipso-Borylation of Alkylthioarenes via C-F Bond Cleavage"
Org. Lett. 18(11), 2758-2761 (2016) - 8.Niwa, T., Ochiai, H., Watanabe, Y., Hosoya, T.:
"Ni/Cu-Catalyzed Defluoroborylation of Fluoroarenes for Diverse C-F Bond Functionalization"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137(45), 14313-14318 (2015). - 9.Takahashi, K., Hosoya, T., Onoe, K., Doi, H., Nagata, H., Hiramatsu, T., Li, X. L., Watanabe, Y., Wada, Y., Takashima, T., Suzuki, M., Onoe, H., Watanabe, Y.:
"[11C]Cetrozole: an Improved C-[11C]Methylated PET Probe for Aromatase Imaging in the Brain."
J. Nucl. Med. 55(5), 852-857 (2014). - 10.Takahashi, K., Yamagishi, G., Hiramatsu, T., Hosoya, A., Onoe, K., Doi, H., Nagata, H., Wada, Y., Onoe, H., Watanabe, Y., Hosoya, T.:
"Practical synthesis of precursor of [N-methyl-11C]vorozole, an efficient PET tracer targeting aromatase in the brain."
Bioorg. Med. Chem. 19(4), 1464-1470 (2011).
Recent Research Results
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May 30, 2024
Killing cancer with a trick of the light -
Aug. 30, 2019
Doubling down on boron to make complex organic molecules
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Takamitsu Hosoya
- Team Leader
Core members
- Atsushi Iriki
- Senior Scientist
- Daichi Nakamura
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Wakiko Arakaki
- Technical Staff I
- Yasuhiro Wada
- Temporary Employee
- Kayo Onoe
- Temporary Employee
- Tadashi Takimoto
- Temporary Staffing
- Yasuyoshi Watanabe
- Senior Visiting Scientist
- Yosky Kataoka
- Senior Visiting Scientist
- Hisashi Doi
- Senior Visiting Scientist
- Yi Long Cui
- Senior Visiting Scientist
- Kei Mizuno
- Senior Visiting Scientist
- Mitsuyo Maeda
- Senior Visiting Scientist
- Takashi Niwa
- Visiting Scientist
- Yuto Sumida
- Visiting Scientist
- Isao Kii
- Visiting Scientist
- Yuta Uetake
- Visiting Scientist
- Kenji Watanabe
- Visiting Scientist
- Hidefumi Mukai
- Visiting Scientist
- Kayo Takahashi
- Visiting Scientist
- Hiroshi Mizuma
- Visiting Scientist
- Kota Mori
- Visiting Scientist
- Shota Warashina
- Visiting Scientist
- Shoko Nomura
- Visiting Scientist
- Tsuyoshi Tahara
- Visiting Scientist
- Yasuhisa Tamura
- Visiting Scientist
- Masanori Yamato
- Visiting Scientist
- Toshiyuki Goto
- Visiting Scientist
- Di Hu
- Visiting Scientist
- Yuzuru Sato
- Visiting Scientist
- Hiroyuki Neyama
- Visiting Scientist
- Kunpei Kawakatsu
- Visiting Scientist
- Shino Owada
- Visiting Technician
- Maya Mitsuno
- Visiting Technician
- Sally Danno
- Visiting Technician
- Kumi Tsutsumi
- Visiting Technician
- Chie Ueta
- Visiting Technician
- Asami Eguchi
- Visiting Technician
- Mayako Okamoto
- Visiting Technician
- Yoko Nagatomo
- Assistant
Contact Information
6-7-3 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku
Kobe, Hyogo
650-0047, Japan
Email: takamitsu.hosoya [at] riken.jp