#  Yoichi Hoshimoto delivers Merck-Banyu Leadership Award Lecture 

 





October 21, 2024

 

 

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 On Friday, October 18, Osaka University Professor Yoichi Hoshimoto delivered his Merck-Banyu Leadership Award Lecture entitled "Exploring Ways to Harness N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Triarylboranes in Organometallic and Synthetic Chemistry."

 Hoshimoto's team recently demonstrated a strategy to separate H2 from a gaseous mixture of H2/CO/CO2/CH4 that can include an excess of CO and CO2 relative to H2 and simultaneously store it in N-heterocyclic compounds that act as liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs), which can be applied to produce H2 by subsequent dehydrogenation. Their results demonstrate that LOHCs can potentially be used for H2 purification in addition to their well-established use in H2 storage. Moreover, this work demonstrates a new aspect of main group catalysis beyond its application as a simple alternative to well-established transition metal-catalyzed processes, i.e., the main group–catalyzed hydrogenation of unsaturated molecules (e.g., carbonyl compounds) under mixed gas conditions. Recent progress on their original triarylborane catalysis was also discussed in Hoshimoto's lecture.

 The Merck-Banyu Award was sponsored and administered by Merck Research Laboratories, USA, and the Banyu Life Science Foundation International, Japan. It was established in 2004 with the aim of encouraging young scientists, and is bestowed to a prospective Japanese chemist under the age of 40, who has been involved in outstanding research activities in the field of synthetic organic chemistry. The awardee takes part in a lecture tour of overseas research institutes.

 Photos available via [2024 Merck-Banyu Leadership Award Lecture Media Gallery](/galleries/yoichi-hoshimoto-delivers-merck-banyu-leadership-award-lecture).



 

 

 



 

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