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| 2008 Dr.
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| 2007 Dr. Toshio
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| 2006 Dr. Branko
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| 2005 Dr.
Heintz Heimgartner |
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| 2004 Dr.
Masataka Ihara |
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| 2003 Dr.
Mauri Lounasmaa |
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| 2001 Dr.
Masanori Somei |
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| 2000 Dr.
Tozo Fujii |
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| 1999 Dr.
Alan R. Katritzky |
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| Dr. Leo A. Paquette |
Dr. Leo A. Paquette currently serves as
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University.
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, in 1934, he was awarded the Ph.D.
degree from MIT in 1959 (Prof. Norman Nelson) for his investigation of
synthetic routes to azasteroid analogues. In the ensuing four years,
he worked as a medicinal research chemist at the Upjohn Company (Kalamazoo,
Michigan). He then joined the faculty of The Ohio State University to
begin his academic career. He quickly moved through the ranks to become
Full Professor (1969), Kimberly Professor (1981), and Distinguished University
Professor (1987). During this period, he held brief visiting positions
at several educational institutions in the USA and Europe.
His research program, which has spanned more than four decades, has
encompassed numerous aspects of heterocyclic and carbocyclic chemistry,
as detailed in Volume 62 of Heterocycles. He has published more than
1250 papers, been the recipient of many awards, and delivered numerous
plenary and invited lectures throughout the world. He has served on
the editorial boards of a significant number of books and journals,
most notably the Encyclopedia of Reagents in Organic Synthesis. He
became an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in
1984.
Professor Paquette has mentored more than 140 doctoral students and
in excess of 350 postdoctoral research associates. These co-workers
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| Dr. Csaba
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Csaba SZÁNTAY was
born in 1928 in Hungary. After taking his chemical engineering degree
from the Technical University of Budapest in 1950, he started working
in the Institute of Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof.
G. ZEMPLÉN ( himself being a student of the Nobel Laureate Emil Fischer
), in the field of carbohydrate chemistry. Later on his interest turned
towards alkaloid chemistry, and the title of his Ph.D. thesis, submitted
in 1955, was: "Syntheses Starting
from Opianic Acid."
In l962 he worked for three months in the Institute of Prof. RIECHE
in Berlin, and his work resulted in a common publication with E. SCHMITZ
about the chemistry of diaziridines.
In 1964 he spent a short period in Gif-sur-Yvette (France) financed
by C.N.R.S. , where he also dealt with alkaloids in the department
of Prof. Janot and Prof. Goutarel.
He obtained his "Doctor of Science" degree in 1964 on the
ground of his thesis: "Synthesis of Ipecac Alkaloids"
In 1965-66 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the State University of
New-York at Buffalo with Prof. BARDOS at the Medicinal Chemistry
Department working on potential cancer therapeutic agents, mainly
with nucleosides.
In addition to that, he found the first example for a low pyramidal
inversion rate of a secondary amino group in aziridines, and made quantitative
measurements by the help of NMR concerning the phenomenon.
In 1967 he became Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Technical
University of Budapest. He was elected to be a member of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences in 1970.
For the last decades he has dealt mainly with the syntheses of natural
products, such as yohimbine-, and vinca-type alkaloids, morphine alkaloids,
amphibian alkaloid epibatidine, prostanoids, insect hormones and pheromones
etc. etc.
About 400 publications mainly in international journals, in addition
to a few books comprise the results of the above work. He is a regularly
invited lecturer at international conferences and congresses.
He is co-author of about 270 patents reflecting his good connection
with the pharmaceutical industry. He is the president of the Hungarian
Inventors, Association.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of "Medicinal Research Reviews" (USA),
an Honorary Advisor to the Editorial Board of "Heterocycles" (Japan),
to the "Natural Product Letters”, and "Trends in Heterocyclic
Chemistry" (India).
He is giving plenary lectures regularly at International Conferences.
e.g.lately he has been an invited lecturer at 5th Joint Meeting on
Medicinal Chemistry ( Jun. 17-21, Slovenia , 2007 ) , as well at 10th
International Symposium on Natural Product Chemistry ( Janaury, 6-9
2006 ) in Karachi, Pakistan.
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| Dr. Toshio Honda |
Dr. Toshio Honda is Professor of organic chemistry at Hoshi University.
He was born in 1947 in Tokyo. He received his Ph. D. degree from Tohoku
University in 1975 (Prof. Tetsuji Kametani). He started his academic
career in 1972, right after he left a school during his Ph. D. course,
as a research associate at The Pharmaceutical Institute, Tohoku University,
and spent a postdoctoral year (April 1, 1976-December 31, 1978) at the
University of British Columbia, Canada (Prof. James P. Kutney). He became
Lecturer at Tohoku University in 1980 and moved to Hoshi University in
1981. Since 1992, he has been a full professor at the same university.
Prof. Honda received The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Young
Scientists in 1989 and FIP Pharmaceutical Scientist Award in 2004. His
research interests include the total synthesis of biologically active
natural products, development of new synthetic methods and strategy,
and structure determination of natural products. He is also interested
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| Dr. Branko Stanovnik |
Dr. Branko Stanovnik is a professor at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. He was born in 1938 in Brezovica, Slovenia. He obtained a Diploma in chemistry in 1960 and received his Ph. D degree in organic chemistry at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1964, becoming Assistant Professor in the same year, Associate Professor in 1967, and Professor in 1972. He carried out his Postdoctorate between 1964 and 1965 at the National Research Council of Canada, (Atlantic Regional Laboratory, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada). From 1974 to 1976 he was a visiting Professor at the university of Indiana (Bloomington, Indiana, USA), and in 1979 was a visiting fellow of the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australia National University (Canberra, Australia).
Prof. Stanovnik research interests include organic chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry and organic synthesis. He has published over 600 papers including reviews, articles and books.
Prof. Stanovnik has received awards including the Kidric Fund Award for Science (Slovenia, 1972 and 1977), Honorary Medal and Diploma (Technical University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1975), and the Boris Kidric Fund Award for Innovations (Slovenia, 1981 and 1989). He was also awarded the Kametani Award for outstanding research in Heterocyclic chemistry (2006).
He was a member of the Advisory Board, International society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (1983-1987), Vice-President of the Union of Yugoslav Chemical Societies (1976-1984), and a Member of the Council of Federation of European Chemical Societies (1987-1991). He is also a 30 year Chairman of the Editorial Board, Slovenskega drustva (since 1976, present since 1994 Acta Chimica Slovenica, Slovenia). He is also a member of the General Assembly, Federation of European Chemical Societies (since 1987), and presently a member of 12 other editorial and advisory boards for heterocyclic chemistry and chemical journals, including other scientific organizations.
Prof. Stanovnik has given 70 plenary and 200 invited lectures at various universities, academies and industrial research laboratories in over 20 countries.
Prof. Stanovnik has been elected as a member for the following organizations; Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London, Great Britain), Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea (Salzberg, Austria), The New York Academy of Sciences (New York, USA), Honorary member of the Hungarian Chemical Society, and Inaugural Honorary member of the Florida Center for Hetercyclic compounds (Gainesville, Florida, USA).
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| Dr. Heintz Heimgartner |
Dr. Heinz Heimgartner was born in 1941 in Muensterlingen, Switzerland.
He studied chemistry at the University of Zuerich and received his PhD
from this University in 1972 with a PhD thesis ‘Photochemical and Thermal
Aromatic Sigmatropic Rearrangements in Hydrocarbons’ (Supervisor Prof.
H. Schmid). His research work during the habilitation was focused on
the chemistry of 2H-azirines. He became lecturer at the Institute of
Organic Chemistry of the University of Zuerich in 1980 with the habilitation
thesis ‘3-Amino-2H-azirines, New Synthons for Heterocyclic Compounds’.
In 1987, he was promoted to titular professor and 1995 to associate professor
at the same university. The research activities range from mechanisms
of organic reactions to the preparation of N, S, and Se-heterocycles
and the synthesis and conformation of peptides. The use of small ring
heterocycles, isoselenocyanates, and S-centered 1,3-dipolar species as
building blocks in organic synthesis is in the centre of interest. He
is author of ca. 400 scientific papers and member of the editorial board
of several chemistry journals. He was awarded the Alfred-Werner medal
of the Swiss Chemical Society, the medal of the University of Lodz, the
award of the Polish Ministry of Education, and the honorary membership
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| Dr. Masataka Ihara |
Masataka Ihara, Professor emeritus of Tohoku University, is currently
a specially appointed research head at Hoshi University and CSO of Synstar
Japan CO., Ltd. He was born in 1942 and graduated from Tohoku University
in 1965. After obtaining his Ph. D. degree under the supervision of the
late Professor T. Kametani in 1970, he was appointed Assistant Professor
at Tohoku University. He spent postdoctoral years with Professor Sir
A. R. Battersby at the Chemical Laboratory of Cambridge University during
1971–1974. He was then appointed as Associate Professor at the Pharmaceutical
Institute of Tohoku University in 1981, promoted to Professor in 1997,
and retired from Tohoku University in March 2006. He received The Research
Foundation Award for Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1987, The Miyata Academic
Prize in 1992, The Kametani Award in 2004, and The Pharmaceutical Society
of Japan Award in 2005. His research interests include development of
synthetic methodology and medicinal chemistry. His main interest at Hoshi
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| Dr. Mauri Lounasmaa |
Dr. Mauri Lounasmaa was born in 1933 in Turku, Finland. He received his Ph.D degree at the Technical University of Helsinki, Finland, in 1968 on the ground of his thesis “Naturally Occurring Quinones”.
Dr. Lounasmaa was a researcher at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (1965-1966, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France). He carried out his Postdoctorate at the Indiana University (Bloomington, USA) under Prof. E. Wenkert during 1968-1969. He became associate Professor in organic chemistry at the University of Oulu (Finland, 1969-1970), senior researcher at the Finnish Academy (1972-1975), Professor in structural organic chemistry at the University of Oulu (Finland) (1975-1978), and Professor in organic chemistry at the Technical University of Helsinki (Finland) (1979-1998).
Prof. Lounasmaa’s main research interests include natural products, especially indole alkaloids and he has published about 250 publications.
He has received awards and honors from the Technical University of Helsinki Price for excellent studies (1974), and the Magnus Ehrnrooth Award (1986). Also an award from the Member of Society of Sciences in Finland (1988 and 1990), Doctor honoris causa; Universite d’ Auvergne (France, 2000), and the Kametani award (2003).
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| Dr. Masanori Somei |
Masanori Somei, born in 1941, graduated from Tokyo University, where
he obtained his Ph. D under the supervision of Prof. T. Okamoto in 1970.
He then moved to ITSUU Laboratory (1970–1976). After postdoctoral work
(1975-1976) with Prof. W. G. Dauben (University of California, Berkeley),
he was promoted to Associate Prof. of Kanazawa University (1976), and
in that place he has been Prof. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry since 1984;
he is now retired and Prof. Emeritus of Kanazawa University. He received
The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists (1971),
Kametani Award (2001), and The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award
for Educational Services (2006). His research interests are mainly synthetic
philosophy, verification of his 1-hydroxyindole hypotheses, and creation
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| Dr. Tozo Fujii |
Dr. Tozo Fujii, Emeritus Professor of Kanazawa University, was born
in Toyama, Japan, in 1930. He studied at Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
University of Tokyo, for his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees. After having done
postdoctoral work with Professor Shigehiko Sugasawa and with Professor
Shun-ichi Yamada at the same faculty and with Professor Nelson J. Leonard
at University of Illinois (1961-1963), he joined the teaching staff at
University of Tokyo as Associate Professor in 1963. In 1967, he moved
to Kanazawa University where he served as Professor of Synthetic Organic
Chemistry of Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences until 1995 and as Chairman
of the same faculty (1979-1981), and retired from the same university
under the age limit in 1995.
Dr. Fujii’s research centers on chemistry and synthesis of purines, particularly
on the mechanism and synthetic utilization of fission and reclosure of
the adenine ring, plant growth substances, amino acids, lactams, and
fused quinolizidine ring systems which include Ipecac and Alangium alkaloids.
For his outstanding contribution to the latter alkaloid field, he received
the Academic Prize of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan in 1982.
Dr. Fujii had been on the editorial board of the journal Chem.
Pharm. Bull. for many years. He wrote two chapters entitled “Ipecac Alkaloids
and β-Carboline Congeners” and “The Ipecac Alkaloids and Related Bases”
in “The Alkaloids,” the classical and authoritative text originally edited
by R. H. F. Manske and then by Arnold Brossi and by G. A. Cordell. |
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| Dr. Alan R. Katritzky |
Alan Katritzky, born in London, began his academic career at the University
of Oxford, United Kingdom where he earned his BA (1st class honors),
B.Sc., MA, and D Phil degrees, was a Senior Demy at Magdalen, Lecturer
at Pembroke College, and Imperial Chemical Industries Fellow. From 1958-1963,
he was a University Lecturer and Founder Fellow of Churchill College
at Cambridge University and gaining the Ph.D. and Sc.D. degrees. He founded
the University of East Anglia School of Chemical Sciences, where he was
Dean 1963-1970 and 1976-1980. Professor Katritzky became Kenan Professor
of chemistry at the University of Florida in 1980 and from 1985 the Director
of the Center for Heterocyclic Compounds. Professor Katritzky is a world-renowned
authority on Heterocyclic Chemistry and has published nearly 2000 articles
in the fields of Heterocyclic chemistry, Synthesis, Statistical Methods
(QSAR, QSPA), physical methods including spectroscopic techniques and
kinetics, and aromaticity and tautomerism. His work has been cited over
11,000 times.
Professor Katritzky has been awarded medals and honors, from some
30 countries, some of which include: Medals from University of Brussels,
Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Medal and Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry,
Golden Tiger award from Exxon Corporation, Senior Award of the International
Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry, the ACS Florida prize, a Senior
Humboldt Award, Hillier Medal Latvia, Kametami Medal Japan, various
honorary fellowships, and 14 Doctorates Honoris
Causa from ten countries.
He was the founding Chairman for the Heterocyclic
Group of the Chemical Society, and Vice President of the Royal
Institute of Chemistry and
the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry. He is a 50-year
member of the American Chemical Society. He is also well known long
time editor of Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry since 1963 (95 volumes
published), as well as being the Editor-in-Chief for Comprehensive
Heterocyclic Chemistry (since 1979) and for Comprehensive
Organic Functional Group Transformations (since 1991). He also served as an Editor of
five other journals including Tetrahedron and
Tetrahedron Letters,
and on the editorial advisory boards for 26 national and international
journals. In 2000, he founded ARKIVOC, an online journal available
free of charge to both readers and authors, supporting research and
education particularly in 2nd and 3rd world countries.
Professor Katritzky has given some 800 plenary and invited lectures
in more than 50 different countries, where appropriate in French, German,
or Italian.
Over the past five decades, Professor Katritzky has mentored some
300 research theses (160 of which were doctoral dissertations). A total
of some 800 scholars have worked under his supervision as graduate
students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting faculty, senior visitors,
or visiting students. His research has been supported continuously
over the past 40 years with nearly 20 million dollars received from
over eighty funding agencies, including many governmental agencies
and numerous industrial entities. He has consulted for around 40 different
industrial companies.
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