Tanase Nakajima Group/AboutTomoakiTanase
Dr. Tomoaki Tanase
Full Professor
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
Nara Women's University
Kitauoya-higashi-machi, Nara 630-8285, Japan
tel +81 742-20-3399, fax +81 742-20-3847
e-mail: tanase@cc.nara-wu.ac.jp
Dr. Tomoaki Tanase was born in Ozaki-cho, Hannan-city, Osaka, Japan, in 1956.
He is a Full Professor and doing research works with Dr. Takayuki Nakajima  and Dr. Bunsho Kure as Organometallic & Coordination Chemistry Group (from April 1st, 2007) in Department of Chemistry, Nara Women's University.


Academic and Professional Records
1983 B. Sc. and 1985 M. Sc. degrees from The University of Tokyo (Prof. S. Yoshikawa, Synthetic Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering)
1988 Ph. D degree from The University of Tokyo (Prof. Masanobu Hidai lab, Synthetic Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering)
1988 Research Assistant (Prof. Yasuhiro Yamamoto), Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Toho University (Chiba, Japan)
1991 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science,Toho University
1993-1995 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry (Prof. S. J. Lippard group), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, USA)
1996 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science Toho University
1996.9 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Nara Women's University (Nara, Japan)
2000.4 Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Nara Women's University (Nara, Japan)
Research Activity Field
Inorganic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry
His research activities cover a variety of inorganic, bioinorganic, and organometallic chemistry. Included are metal-metal bonded structurally constrained transition metal clusters, transition metal complexes containing carbohydrates, and carboxylate- and oxo bridged di- and multimetallic complexes with biorelevant organic ligands.  He has also tried to establish nano molecular science on the basis of multinuclear metal units.
Membership
Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ)
American Chemical Society (ACS)


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