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Education:
08/2014 – 01/2020 Ph.D. | The Scripps Research Institute
04/2010 – 03/2014 B.S. | Osaka University
Work experience:
04/2022 – 03/2025 Postdoctoral fellow | RIKEN
03/2020 – 03/2022 Postdoctoral fellow | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Chemistry, surface chemistry
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1) Keita Tanaka, Martin-Louis Y. Riu, Brian Valladares, Christopher C. Cummins. Introducing N-Heterocyclic Iminophosphoranes (NHIPs): Synthesis by [3+2] Cycloaddition of Azophosphines with Alkynes and Reactivity Studies. Submitted 2022
2) Zhoulong Fan, Xiangyang Chen, Keita Tanaka, Han Seul Park, Nelson Y. S. Lam, Jonathan J. Wong, K. N. Houk, Jin-Quan Yu. Unified Template Strategy for Editing Multiple Remote C–H Bonds. ChemRxiv 2021
3) Hang Shi, Yi Lu, Jiang Weng, Katherine L. Bay, Xiangyang Chen, Keita Tanaka, Pritha Verma, Kendall N. Houk, and Jin-Quan Yu. Differentiation and Functionalization of Adjacent, Remote C–H Bonds. Nature Chem. 2020, 12, 399.
4) Keita Tanaka, William R. Ewing, and Jin-Quan Yu. Hemilabile Benzyl Ether Enables γ-C(sp3)–H Carbonylation and Olefination of Alcohols. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 15494.
5) Zhipeng Zhang*, Keita Tanaka* and Jin-Quan Yu. Remote site-selective C–H activation directed by a catalytic bifunctional template. Nature 2017, 543, 538. (* co-first author)
