Takayuki Oritani
Title: Professor
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 1966
March: Ph.D from Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Agricultural Chemistry
(Laboratory of Organic Chemistry), Tokyo University.1963 May - 1966 March:
Temporary Research Employee (Graduate Student of Tokyo University) of Japanese Takasago
Perfumery Industrial Company.1966 April - 1967 March:
Research Fellow of Japanese Takasago Perfumery Industrial Company, Research Institute.1967 May - 1979 February:
Instructor, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku
University.1975 May -1977 May:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Organic Chemistry, Glasgow University, U.K. 1979 May - 1991 May: Associate
Professor, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Tohoku University.1991 June - Present: Professor
(Bioorganic Chemistry), Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science,
Tohoku University. |
Research Field (Scientific data and Research Interests):
Chemical Studies on
Ambergris (1963-continual)
Organic Synthesis using
Microbial Enzymes. (Practically Optical Resolution method using microbial lipase
originated with me, 1980-).
Bioorganic Studies on Abscisic
Acid (a plant hormone), Synthesis, Biosynthesis, Structure-Activities Relationships).
1968-
Synthetic Studies on
Agricultural Antibiotics. 1980-
Bioorganic Studies on
Taxanediterpenoids in Japanese and Chinese yews. Separation and Structural elucidation of
Taxanediterpenoids .1991-
Synthetic Studies on
Annonaceous Acetogenins. 1991-
Hobby: Fishing and Hill (Mountain) Walking to find Strange Plants and Fungi for Research Developments.