Research Interests

Organometallic chemistry, Materials chemistry

Cheminformatics, Quantum chemistry

Education

2022- Postdoctoral fellow

Department of Chemistry, Hokkaido University (Prof. Satoshi Maeda)

2022 Ph.D. (Chemistry)

Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo (Prof. Eiichi Nakamura)

2019 Visiting student

Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany (Prof. Klaus Müllen, Prof. Akimitsu Narita)

2019 M.S. (Chemistry)

Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo (Prof. Eiichi Nakamura)

2017 B.S. (Chemistry)

Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo (Prof. Eiichi Nakamura)

Publications

(6) Doba, T.; Shang, R.; Nakamura, E. Iron-Catalyzed C–H Activation for Heterocoupling and Copolymerization of Thiophenes with Enamines. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 21692–21701.

(5) Doba, T.; Fukuma, S.; Shang, R.; Nakamura, E. Versatile Synthesis of Trisphosphines Bearing Phenylene and Vinylene Backbones Useful for Metal Catalysis and Materials Applications. Synthesis DOI: 10.1055/a-1970-4520.

(4) Lin, H.-S.‡; Doba, T.‡; Sato, W.; Matsuo, Y.; Shang, R.; Nakamura, E. Triarylamine/Bithiophene Copolymer with Enhanced Quinoidal Character as Hole-Transporting Material for Perovskite Solar Cells. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202203949. (‡Equal contribution. Selected as a Hot Paper)

(3) Doba, T.; Ilies, L.; Sato, W.; Shang, R.; Nakamura, E. Iron-Catalysed Regioselective Thienyl C–H/C–H Coupling. Nat. Catal. 2021, 4, 631–638. (Highlighted in Nature Portfolio Chemistry Community)

(2) Chen, M.; Doba, T.; Sato, T.; Razumkov, H.; Ilies, L.; Shang, R.; Nakamura, E. Chromium(III)-Catalyzed C(sp2)−H Alkynylation, Allylation, and Naphthalenation of Secondary Amides with Trimethylaluminum as Base. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 4883–4891.

(1) Doba, T.; Matsubara, T.; Ilies, L.; Shang, R.; Nakamura, E. Homocoupling-Free Iron-Catalysed Twofold C–H Activation/Cross-Couplings of Aromatics via Transient Connection of Reactants. Nat. Catal. 2019, 2, 400–406. (Highlighted in Nature Portfolio Chemistry Community, EurekAlert, Alpha Galileo, and Chem-Station, Press release)

Books

(1) 道場貴大，中村栄一，「第6章　Fe触媒芳香族C−Hカップリング反応」，直接的芳香族カップリング反応の設計と応用，シーエムシー出版，p.63–73，2019年．

Patents

(1) 中村栄一，道場貴大，尚睿，佐藤済，共役高分子の製造方法、共役高分子、該共役高分子を含有する有機半導体デバイス用膜形成用インク、および有機半導体デバイス，特開2022-026960．

Fellowships

2022- Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD)

2020-2022 Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2)

2017-2022 Materials Education program for the future leaders in Research, Industry, and Technology (MERIT)

Awards

2022 Springer Theses

2022 Dean’s thesis award, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo

2021 12th Otsu Conference Award Fellow

2021 Poster prize, The 31th Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry

2021 CSJ student presentation award, The 101th CSJ Annual Meeting

2019 Dean’s thesis award, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo

2018 Poster prize, The 29th Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry

2018 Poster prize, The 4th International Symposium on C–H Activation

2018 Poster prize, The 9th Subway Seminar

2017 Dean’s award, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo