Junichiro Hirano, M.Sc.
Curriculum Vitae
since 010/2026 Research stay as a visiting PhD student in the group of Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, University of Münster, Germany since 04/2025 JSPS Research Fellow (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan since 04/2025 PhD studies in the group of Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Shinokubo, Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan 04/2023 - 03/2025 MSc studies in the group of Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Shinokubo, Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan 04/2022 - 03/2023 Bachelor thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Shinokubo, Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan Awards and Scholarships
09/2026 Student Poster Prize, The 36th Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry, Kanazawa, Japan 08/2026 Award for Poster Presentation, The 21st International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds, Beijing, China 09/2025 RSC Advances Oral Presentation Prize, The 35th Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry, Nagoya, Japan Publications
J. Hirano, T. Ikai, S. Kusaka, R. Matsuda, H. Shinokubo, N. Fukui,
Skeletal transformation to chiral molecular nanocarbons,
Nat. Commun. 2026, 17, 6052–6063.J. Hirano, S. Miyoshi, E. Yashima, T. Ikai, H. Shinokubo, N. Fukui,
Synthesis of sterically congested double helicene by alkyne cycloisomerization,
Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 6035-6038.J. Hirano, H. Shinokubo, N. Fukui,
Synthesis and Properties of Bay-Functionalized 9,9′-Bifluorenylidene Derivatives,
Chem. Lett. 2024, 53, upad015.