Tetsuro Murahashi

b. 1973, BS. Osaka U. (1995.3), Ph.D. Osaka U. (1999.3, Prof. H. Kurosawa).
JSPS Research Fellow (DC1) (1997.4-1999.3), Assistant Prof. Osaka U. (1999.4-2007.8),
JSPS Research Abroad (2003.8-2005.1, MIT, Prof. C. C. Cummins), JST PRESTO Researcher (2005.10-2009.3),
Associate Prof. Osaka U. (2007.9-present), JST PRESTO Researcher (2010.10-2014.3).

<Awards>
Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists (2007.3),
Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Award for Young Chemists (2007.9),
The Young Scientists' Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan (2008.4).
Research Award for Young Chemists, The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (2008.12)
Dalton Asian Lectureship Award (2010.10)

Research Interests
1) Chemistry of Multinuclear Sandwich Complexes
2) Chemistry of Organopalladium Clusters
3) Design, Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Application of Novel and Highly Reactive Transition Metal Complexes
4) Mechanisms of Important and Fundamental Organometallic Reactions
5) Photo-chemical Reactions Involving Metal Complexes

Recent Publications

"Redox-induced Reversible Metal Assembling through Translocation and Reversible Ligand Coupling in Tetranuclear Metal Sandwich Frameworks"
Murahashi, T.; Shirato, K.; Fukushima, A.; Takase, K.; Suenobu, T.; Fukuzumi, S.; Ogoshi, S.; Kurosawa, H.
Nature Chem. published on the web.

"Oxidative Dinuclear Addition of a Pd^I-Pd^I Moiety to Arenes: Generation of m-h³:h³-Arene Pd^II₂ Species"
Murahashi, T.; Takase, K.; Oka, M.; Ogoshi, S.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 14908-14911.

"Formation and Coordination Modes of the C4E4 Moiety (E = COOMe) Bound to Two Palladium(II) Moieties"
Murahashi, T.; Okuno, T.; Usui, K.; Takase, K.; Otani, T.; Ogoshi, S.; Kurosawa, H.
Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 2383-2387.

"Metallocenoids of Platinum: Syntheses and Structures of Triangular Triplatinum Sandwich Complexes of Cycloheptatrienyl"
Murahashi, T.; Usui, K.; Inoue, R.; Ogoshi, S.; Kurosawa, H.
Chem. Sci. 2011, 2, 117-122.

"Square Tetrapalladium Sheet Sandwich Complexes: Cyclononatetraenyl as a Versatile Face-Capping Ligand"
Murahashi, T.; Inoue, R.; Usui, K.; Ogoshi, S.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, in 9888-9889.

"Synthesis and Reversible Reductive Coupling of Cationic, Dinitrogen-Derived Diazoalkane Complexes"
Curley, J. J.; Murahashi, T.; Cummins, C. C.
Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 7181.

"Reductive Coupling of Metal Triangles in Sandwich Complexes"
Murahashi, T.; Hashimoto, Y.; Chiyoda, K.; Fujimoto, M.; Uemura, T.; Inoue, R.; Ogoshi, S.; Kurosawa, H.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 8586-8587.

"Structures of Two Haptotropic Isomers Generated by the Sliding of 1,3,5-Triene Ligands on a Pd-Pd-Pd Chain"
Murahashi, T.; Mino, Y.; Chiyoda, K.; Ogoshi, S.; Kurosawa, H.
Chem. Commun. 2008, 4061-4063.

"Synthesis and Structure of Dipalladium Complexes Containing Cyclooctatetraene and Bicyclooctatrienyl Ligands"
Murahashi, T.; Kato, N.; Ogoshi, S.; Kurosawa, H.
J. Organomet. Chem. 2008, 693, 894-898.

"A Stable Zerovalent Palladium Chain Enveloped by a pai-Electron Sheath of Conjugated Polyene Ligands"
Tatsumi, Y.; Murahashi, T.; Okada, M.; Ogoshi, S.; Kurosawa, H.
Chem. Commun. 2008, 477-479.

"Discrete Triangular Tripalladium Sandwich Complexes of Arenes"
Murahashi, T.; Fujimoto, M.; Kawabata, Y.; Inoue, R.; Ogoshi, S.; Kurosawa, H.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 5440-5443. 　　HIGHLIGHTED in Annu. Rep. Prog. Chem. Sect. A. 2008, 104, 214.

"Rearrangement of a Pd₄ Skeleton from a 1D Chain to a 2D Sheet on the Face of Perylene or Fluoranthene Ligand Caused by Exchange of the Binder Molecule"
Murahashi, T.; Kato, N.; Uemura, T.; Kurosawa H.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 3509-3512. 　　HIGHLIGHTED in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, 2008, 249, Trendberichte 2007.

"Discrete Sandwich Compounds of Monolayer Palladium Sheets"
Murahashi, T.; Fujimoto, M.; Oka, M.; Hashimoto, Y.; Uemura, T.; Tatsumi, Y.; Nakao, Y.; Ikeda, A.; Sakaki, S.; Kurosawa, H.
Science, 2006, 313, 1104-1107. 　　　HIGHLIGHTED in Chem & Eng. News, 2006, Aug. 28, 8. 22. 　SELECTED as the TOP 10 Paper published by Researchers in Osaka University 2006-2007. Featured in Kagaku 2008, 63, 46.

"Sandwich Complexes Containing Bent Palladium Chains"
Tatsumi, Y.; Shirato, K.; Murahashi, T.; Ogoshi, S.; Kurosawa, H.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 5799-5803.

"Dinuclear Addition of the Pd-Pd Moieties to 1,3-Dienes"
Murahashi, T.; Nagai, T.; Nakashima, H.; Tomiyasu, T.; Kurosawa, H.
Chem. Lett. 2006, 754-755.

"Stereoretentive Elimination and Trans-Olefination of the Dicationic Dipalladium Moiety [Pd₂L_n]²⁺ Bound on 1,3,5-Trienes
Murahashi, T.; Nakashima, H.; Nagai, T.; Mino, Y.; Okuno, T.; Jalil, M. A.; Kurosawa, H.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 4377-4388.