Congratulations to Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi on being awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Prof. Negishi was a lecturer at the Fourth Mitsui Chemicals International Symposium on Catalysis Science held in 2009.
| 10:00～10:10 | Opening Ceremony |
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| 10:10～11:00 | Plenary Lecture Prof. Roald Hoffmann(Cornell University,U.S.A.) Chemistry's Essential Tensions: Different Ways of Looking at a Science |
| 11:00～11:50 | Invited Lecture Prof. Yasuhiro Iwasawa(The University of Tokyo, Japan) Chemical Design and Dynamic Structures on Catalyst Surfaces for Innovative Processes |
| 13:50～14:40 | Invited Lecture Emeritus Prof. Bernard Witholt(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland) Industrial Chemistry with Whole Cell Biocatalysts |
| 14:40～15:30 | Invited Lecture Dr. Shin-ichiro Tawaki(Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Japan) Development of Novel Biocatalysts for the Production of Useful Chemicals from Biomass |
| 15:50～17:30 | 2009 Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award
The Winners of the “2009 Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award” Commemorative Lectures Prof. John F. Hartwig (University of Illinois, U.S.A.) Discovery and Development of New Coupling and C-H Bond Functionalization Reactions Commemorative Lectures Prof. Kyoko Nozaki(The University of Tokyo, Japan) Development of Novel Catalytic Reactions for Coordination Copolymerization of Polar Monomers |
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The Winners of the “2009 Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award of Encouragement” Commemorative Lectures Lecturing Prof. Shigeki Matsunaga(The University of Tokyo, Japan) Development of Multimetallic Asymmetric Catalysis through Chiral Ligand Design Commemorative Lectures Assistant Prof. Yoshiaki Nakao(Kyoto University, Japan) Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Addition Reactions Catalyzed Cooperatively by Nickel and Lewis Acid |
| 10:00～10:50 | Plenary Lecture Emeritus Prof. Henri B. Kagan (Université Paris-Sud, France) Asymmetric Catalysis, a Promising Route to Biologically Active Compounds or Their Synthetic Intermediates |
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| 10:50～11:40 | Invited Lecture Prof. Masakatsu Shibasaki(The University of Tokyo, Japan) Recent Progress in Asymmetric Two-Center Catalysis |
| 13:10～14:00 | Invited Lecture Dr. Robert J. Farrauto(BASF Catalysts LLC, U.S.A.) Automotive Emission Control: Past, Present and Future |
| 14:00～14:50 | Invited Lecture Prof. Kyriacos C. Nicolaou(The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.) Catalysis in Total Synthesis |
| 15:10～16:00 | Invited Lecture Prof. Barry M. Trost(Stanford University, U.S.A.) On Inventing Reactions for Atom Economy |
| 16:00～16:50 | Invited Lecture Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi(Purdue University, U.S.A.) Transition Metal-Catalyzed Organometallic C-C Bond Formation Reactions That Have Revolutionized Organic Synthesis |
| 16:50～16:55 | Closing Ceremony |