2013/03/01 Our work on peptide asymmetric catalyst was featured in SYNFORM 03/13(2013).
2013/02/20 The work by Akagawa et al. which was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (construction of quaternary carbon by asymmetric conjugate addition of nitromethane) was picked up in SYNFACTS03/13(2013).
2013/02/12 The work by Akagawa et al. which was published in Tetrahedron Lett. (aldehyde asymmetric cyanosilylation by using polyleucine as chiral catalyst)) was picked up in SYNFACTS02/13(2013).
2012/12/17 Prof. Kudo gave a talk in 1st USA-Japan symposium on Organocatalysts (Honolulu).
2012/11/15 In IKCOC-12 at Kyoto, Dr. Akagawa and Mr. Tanaka presented a poster.
2007/07/25  English web page was opened.
2006/08/24  Our paper on alternating copolyimide synthesis was featured on the back cover page of Macromol. Rapid Commun.,Vol 27, No.17

2005/10/04  Our paper on semi-artificial myoglobin having DNA binding site won BCSJ award and was featured on the cover page of Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. Vol.78, No. 10