Dr. Kohei Watanabe

group of Prof. G. Erker

Corrensstr. 40
48149 Münster
Lab. No.: 2.04 / 2.05
Phone: +49 251 83-33223 / 39741
Email: watanabk@uni-muenster.de

Member of the group since: 04/2018

Research interest:

Frustrated Lewis Pair chemistry / Synthesis of heterocyclic compounds

PhD degree thesis:

"Effective preparation of heterocyclic compounds based on diversity oriented synthesis", Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, 03/2018.

Publications:

“Hydrazone-Pd-catalyzed Direct Intermolecular Reaction of o Alkynylphenols with Allylic Acetates”, K. Watanabe, T. Mino, E. Ishikawa, C. Masuda, Y. Yoshida, M. Sakamoto, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2018, 16, 575-584.

“Hydrazone-Cu-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura-type Reaction of Dibromoalkene with Arylboronic Acid”, K. Watanabe, T. Mino, C. Hatta, E. Ishikawa, Y. Yoshida, M. Sakamoto, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2017, 3612-3619.

“Synthesis of o-Allyloxyethynylbenzene Derivatives via Cu-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura-Type Reaction and Their Transformations for Heterocyclic Compounds”, K. Watanabe, T. Mino, E. Ishikawa, M. Okano, T. Ikematsu, Y. Yoshida, M. Sakamoto, K. Sato, K. Yoshida, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2017, 2359-2368.

“Hydrazone-Palladium Catalyzed Annulation of 1-Cinnamyloxy-2-ethynylbenzene Derivatives”, K. Watanabe, T. Mino, T. Ikematsu, C. Hatta, Y. Yoshida, M. Sakamoto, Org. Chem. Front., 2016, 3, 979-984.

“Hydrazone–palladium catalyzed annulation of 1-allyl-2-bromobenzene derivatives with internal alkynes”, K. Watanabe, T. Mino, C. Hatta, S. Ito, M. Sakamoto, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015, 13, 11645-11650.

“Hydrazone-Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Arylation of Cinnamyloxyphenylboronic Acid Pinacol Esters”, K. Watanabe, T. Mino, T. Abe, T. Kogure, M. Sakamoto, J. Org. Chem., 2014, 14, 6695-6702.

Awards:

Poster Presentation Award, Junior ICCEOCA-7 / Junior AENCEOCA-3, China (2017)

CSJ Poster Presentation Award 2017 for Excellent Research, 7th Chemical Society of Japan Chemistry Festa, Japan (2017)

Miscellaneous:

Doctoral program special researcher scholarship, Graduate school of Chiba University (4/2017-3/2018)

Post-doctoral fellowships, the Uehara Memorial Foundation (4/2018-present)