Satoshi Takebayashi

Born in Tokyo, Satoshi was trained as an organic chemist at Waseda University, T. Shibata lab, during his B.Sc. He then moved to Canada and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, where he met organometallic chemistry (the study of molecules consisting of metals and organic parts) and studied the hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds at S. H. Bergens lab. After one year of teaching experience at Waseda University, he moved to Israel for his postdoctoral research. At the Weizmann Institute of Science, D. Milstein lab, he discovered the iron-catalyzed olefin metathesis reaction, a long-sought-after catalytic reaction. At OIST, he studies the fundamentals and applications of organometallic chemistry. His most recent discovery is a 21-electron cobaltocene complex.

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