Takeaki Iwamoto

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Angewandte Chemie International EditionVolume 56, Issue 31 p. 8930-8930 Author ProfileFree Access Takeaki Iwamoto First published: 21 March 2017 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201702167AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Graphical Abstract “My favorite place on earth is Bora Bora in Tahiti. The most important thing I learned from my parents is kindness. ...” This and more about Takeaki Iwamoto can be found on page 8930. Takeaki Iwamoto The author presented on this page has published more than 10 articles in Angewandte Chemie in the last 10 years, most recently: “An Isolable Potassium Salt of a Borasilene–Chloride Adduct”: Y. Suzuki, S. Ishida, S. Sato, H. Isobe, T. Iwamoto, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201612545; Angew. Chem. 2017, DOI: 10.1002/ange.201612545. Date of birth: November 25, 1970 Position: Professor, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University E-mail: iwamoto@m.tohoku.ac.jp Homepage: http://www.ssoc.chem.tohoku.ac.jp/en_index.html ORCID: 0000-0002-8556-5785 Education: 1993 BSc, Tohoku University 1998 DSc supervised by Mitsuo Kira, Tohoku University 2006–2007 Visiting Scholar with T. Don Tilley, University of California, Berkeley Awards: 1999 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists; 2004 The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists; 2009 The Young Scientists' Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan; 2010 Nozoe Memorial Award for Young Organic Chemists Research: Low-coordinate compounds of main-group elements, especially silicon and germanium Hobbies: Listening to music, walking, traveling My favorite place on earth is Bora Bora in Tahiti. The most important thing I learned from my parents is kindness. If I could have dinner with three famous scientists from history, they would be Stanley F. Kipping, Dmitri I. Mendeleev, and Masataka Ogawa. I chose chemistry as a career because the unexpected structures and behavior of new compounds fascinated me. If I were not a scientist, I would be a software programmer. My most exciting discovery to date has been the unexpected formation of spiropentasiladiene. I lose track of time when I watch science fiction movies or when I repair PCs. My favorite author (fiction) is Ryunosuke Akutagawa. My top three films of all time are Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and Mission: Impossible. My favorite food is lasagne. My favorite piece of music is Quartet for the End of Time (Olivier Messiaen). If I won the lottery, I would travel all over the world with my family and construct a new building for my laboratory. My 5 top papers: References 1“A Stable Bicyclic Compound with Two Si=Si Double Bonds”: T. Iwamoto, M. Tamura, C. Kabuto, M. Kira, Science 2000, 290, 504. (This study taught me the importance of carefully interpreting the obtained results.) 2“A Stable Fused Bicyclic Disilene as a Model for Silicon Surface”: H. Kobayashi, T. Iwamoto, M. Kira, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 15376. (Mitsuo Kira allowed me to be a corresponding author for the first time.) 3“Fused Tricyclic Disilenes with Highly Strained Si−Si Double Bonds: Addition of a Si−Si Single Bond to a Si−Si Double Bond”: R. Tanaka, T. Iwamoto, M. Kira, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 6371; Angew. Chem. 2006, 118, 6519. (The properties of silicon–silicon double bonds can be controlled by the careful design of the substituents.) 4“A heavy analogue of the smallest bridgehead alkene stabilized by a base”: T. Iwamoto, N. Akasaka, S. Ishida, Nat. Commun. 2014, 5, 5353. (A silicon analogue of bicyclo[1.1.0]but-1(2)-ene, the smallest bridgehead alkene that has not been isolated to date.) 5“A Dialkylsilylene-Pt(0) Complex with a DVTMS Ligand for the Catalytic Hydrosilylation of Functional Olefins”: T. Iimura, N. Akasaka, T. Iwamoto, Organometallics 2016, 35, 4071. (Isolable alkylsilylenes are promising ligands for transition-metal catalysts.) Volume56, Issue31July 24, 2017Pages 8930-8930 ReferencesRelatedInformation