Eiichi Nakamura, Doctor degree, Lecture Professor, Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nationality is Japanese

Special Talent： Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences，Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science，Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry，Honorary Member of the Israel Chemical Society，Fellow of the Chemical Society of Japan

Email：nakamura@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.j

Research Group Website：https://moltech.jp/ja/

Physical Organic Chemistry, Organic Synthetic Chemistry, Catalytic Chemistry and Modern Electronic Materials Chemistry            

1969.04-1973.03, B.S., Tokyo Institute of Technology

1973.04-1978.03, Ph.D, Tokyo Institute of Technology

1978.04-1980.03,  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Columbia University，

1993.12-1995.03, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology

95.04-2016.03, Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo

2016.04-2019.03, Molecular Technology Innovation Chair Professor, The University of Tokyo

2019.04-present, University Professor, The University of Tokyo, Department of Chemistry

2024.12-present, Lecture Professor, Nankai University

Mainly engaged in research in the fields of physical organic chemistry, organic synthetic chemistry, catalytic chemistry, and modern electronic materials chemistry. He/She has achieved internationally pioneering research results in the application of electron microscopy technology to organic chemistry research, and has particularly obtained a large number of original research achievements in the research field of optoelectronic functional materials. To date, a total of 560 papers have been published in internationally authoritative journals, including 4 papers in Science, 1 paper in Nature, 9 papers in Nature sub-journals, and 171 papers in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), with a cumulative number of citations exceeding 50,000 times.

1. Nondeterministic dynamics in η-to-θ phase transition of alumina nanoparticles, M. Sakakibara, T. Nakamuro*, E. Nakamura*, Science, 387, 522–527 (2025). 

2. Melting entropy of crystals determined by electron-beam-induced configurational disordering. D. Liu, J. Fu, O. Elishav, M. Sakakibara, K. Yamanouchi, B. Hirshberg*, T. Nakamuro*, E. Nakamura*, Science, 384, 1212-1219 (2024).

3. Imaging Single Molecules in Motion, M. Koshino, T. Tanaka, N. Solin, K. Suenaga*, H. Isobe*, and E. Nakamura*, Science, 316, 853 (2007).

4. Stacking of Conical Molecules with a Fullerene Apex into Polar Columns in Crystals and Liquid Crystals, M. Sawamura*, K. Kawai, Y. Matsuo, K. Kanie, T. Kato*, and E. Nakamura*, Nature, 419, 702–705 (2002).

5. Spherical Bilayer Vesicles of Fullerene Based Surfactants in Water: A Laser Light Scattering Study, S. Zhou, C. Burger, B. Chu*, M. Sawamura, N. Nagahama, M. Toganoh, U. E. Hackler, H. Isobe, and E. Nakamura, Science, 291, 1944–1947 (2001).

6. Photo-induced Biochemical Activity of Fullerene Carboxylic Acid, H. Tokuyama, S. Yamago, E. Nakamura*, T. Shiraki, and Y. Sugiura*, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 7918–7919 (1993).

7. Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Primary and Secondary Alkyl Halides with Aryl Grignard Reagents, M. Nakamura*, K. Matsuo S. Ito and E. Nakamura*, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 3686–3687 (2004). 

8. Synthesis of Anthranilic Acid Derivatives through Iron-Catalyzed Ortho Amination of Aromatic Carboxamides with N-Chloroamines, T. Matsubara, S. Asako, L. Ilies, E. Nakamura, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 646–649 (2014). 

9. Homocoupling-free Iron-catalysed Twofold C–H Activation/Cross-couplings of Aromatics via Transient Connection of Reactants, T. Doba, T. Matsubara, L. Ilies, R. Shang*, E. Nakamura*, Nat. Catal. 2, 400-406 (2019).

10.Iron-Catalysed Regioselective Thienyl C–H/C–H Coupling, T. Doba, L. Ilies, W. Sato, R. Shang*, E. Nakamura*, Nat. Catal., 4, 631–638 (2021).