THE MATSUDA RESEARCH GROUP Department of Applied Chemistry
Tokyo University of Science

Yushu Jin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7881-320X
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Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science
Tokyo University of Science
1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
E-mail: yushu.jin@rs.tus.ac.jp

Education:
March 2018 Ph.D., Kyushu University
March 2015 M.S., Kyushu University
June 2012 B.S., Donghua University

Research and Professional Experience:
April 2024 - present Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Science
April 2021 - March 2024 Research Fellow, RIKEN (Prof. Ilies Laurean)
April 2018 - March 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Prof. Nobuharu Iwasawa)
August 2015 - March 2016 Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley (Prof. John F. Hartwig)

Publication:
Noncovalent Interaction with a Spirobipyridine Ligand Enables Efficient Iridium-Catalyzed C–H Activation
Yushu Jin, Boobalan Ramadoss, Sobi Asako, Laurean Ilies
Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 2886.
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Catalytic Direct Hydrocarboxylation of Styrenes with CO₂ and H₂
Yushu Jin, Joquim Caner, Shintaro Nishikawa, Naoyuki Toriumi, Nobuharu Iwasawa
Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 7584.

Remote Steric Control for Undirected meta-Selective C–H Activation of Arenes
Boobalan Ramadoss, Yushu Jin, Sobi Asako, Laurean Ilies
Science 2022, 375, 658–663.

Visible-Light-Enabled Carboxylation of Benzyl Alcohol Derivatives with CO₂ Using a Palladium/Iridium Dual Catalyst
Yushu Jin, Naoyuki Toriumi, Nobuharu Iwasawa
ChemSusChem, 2022, 15, e202102095.

Rh-Catalyzed Direct Carboxylation of Alkenyl C–H Bonds of Alkenylpyrazoles
Takanobu Saitou, Yushu Jin, Kotaro Isobe, Takuya Suga, Jun Takaya, Nobuharu Iwasawa
Chem. Asian J. 2020, 15, 1941–1944.

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Chemo- and Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Isoquinoline Carbocycles
Yushu Jin, Yusuke Makida, Tatsuya Uchida, Ryoichi Kuwano
J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 3829–3839.

Palladium-Catalyzed, Enantioselective α-Arylation of α-Fluorooxindoles
Yushu Jin, Ming Chen, Shaozhong Ge, John F. Hartwig
Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 1390–1393.

Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective α-Arylation of α-Fluoroketones
Zhiwei Jiao, Jason J. Beriger, Yushu Jin, Shaozhong Ge, Jianrong Steve Zhou, John F. Hartwig
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 15980–15986.

An Improvement of the Palladium-Catalyzed [4 + 2] Cycloaddition of o-(Silylmethyl)benzyl Carbonates with Alkenes
Yushu Jin, Kentaro Ishizuka, Ryoichi Kuwano
Synlett 2014, 25, 2488–2492.