Research
Faculty Members
Drug Innovation Center Lead Exploration Unit
Watanabe YuichiroSpecially Appointed Assistant Professor
Biography
2019 B.Sc. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2021 M.Sc. Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2021 Enter Ph. D., Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2022 Current position
We are developing consultation and synthetic development support for the themes about novel drug discovery researched by professors in academia, to materialize the themes, create lead compounds, and establish non-clinical POC.
Research theme
Drug Discovery Consulting
Follow-up on Hit Compounds
Synthetic Development to Lead Compounds
Representative achievements
Yuichiro Watanabe, Taisei Takagi, Kazunori Miyamoto,* Junichiro Kanazawa, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
“Shelf-stable (E)- and (Z)-Vinyl-λ3-chlorane: An Unusual Stereospecific Hyper-vinylating Agent”
Organic Letters 2020, 22, 3469.
Daisuke Sato, Yuichiro Watanabe, Keiichi Noguchi, Junichiro Kanazawa, Kazunori Miyamoto, Masanobu Uchiyama,* and Akio Saito*
“BF3-Catalyzed Skeletal Rearrangement of 7-En-2-ynones to endo-Type Cyclic Dienes” Organic Letters 2020, 22, 4063.
Kazunori Miyamoto,* Yuichiro Watanabe, Taisei Takagi, Tomohide Okada, Takashi Toyama, Shinji Imamura, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
“CO2-mediated Oxygen Transfer from NaClO-5H2O to Iodoarene: A Highly Practical Synthesis of Iodosylarene”
ARKIVOC, 2021, 7, 1.