2025

Award

• Shota Saito, Naoki Numadate, Hidemasa Teraoka, Shinichi Enami, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Tetsuya Hama
  3rd JpSAC Outstanding Paper Award, The Japan Society of Atmospheric Chemistry, February, 2025.

2024

Papers

• H. Kobayashi, A. Fukuoka
  Mechanochemical Hydrolysis of Polysaccharide Biomass: Scope and Mechanistic Insights
  ChemPlusChem, 89(5), e202300554 (2024). DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202300554
• E. Kurniawan, N. Sannodo, Y. Negishi, H. Kobayashi, Y. Yamada, S. Sato
  Vapor-phase deoxydehydration of 2,3-butanediol to 2-butene over MoO₃/SiO₂ catalyst
  Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 97(2), uoad005 (2024). DOI: 10.1093/bulcsj/uoad005
• H. Kobayashi, D. Padovan, A. Fukuoka
  Characteristic Reactivity of 3-Acetamido-5-acetylfuran under Oxidation Conditions
  Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 97(7), uoae068 (2024). DOI: 10.1093/bulcsj/uoae068
  Selected Paper, highlighted as an inside cover.
  
• H. Kobayashi, A. Fukuoka
  Catalytic Conversion of Biomass with Mechanical Forces of Milling
  J. Synth. Org. Chem. Jpn., 82(7), 719-730 (2024). DOI: 10.5059/yukigoseikyokaishi.82.719
• Yasuhito Koyama, Takuya Sagawa, Kazufumi Kohno, Kento Sato, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Atsushi Fukuoka
  Synthesis and properties of biomass-based polymethacrylate comprising chitin-derived 2-acetamide-2-deoxyisosorbide as a repeat unit
  Polym. Int., in press. DOI: 10.1002/pi.6701

Award

• Kakeru Taguchi
  Head of Department Award, Department of Integrated Science, March, 2024.

Oral presentation

• Hirokazu Kobayashi
  Catalytic conversion of polysaccharide biomass
  ACS on Campus Symposium: Sustainable Chemistry, Tokyo (Japan), invited lecture, May 15, 2024.
• Hirokazu Kobayashi
  Development of catalytic reactions for converting polysaccharide biomass
  13th Carbon Neutral Benkyo-kai, Tokyo (Japan), invited lecture, Sept. 13, 2024.
• Hirokazu Kobayashi
  Hydrolysis of Cellulose and Chitin over a Carbon-based Catalysts
  Ehime-chiku Lecture in Chugoku-Shikoku Branch of CSJ, Matsuyama (Japan), invited lecture, Nov. 29, 2024.

Poster presentation

• Naomi Nishimura, Ryo Shimane, Tomohiro Iwai, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  A nano-sized carbon catalyst for the hydrolysis of crystalline cellulose
  ACS on Campus Symposium: Sustainable Chemistry, Tokyo (Japan), May 15, 2024.
• Akito Imai, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  Catalytic C-C cleavage of lignin-derived aromatic compounds
  ACS on Campus Symposium: Sustainable Chemistry, Tokyo (Japan), May 15, 2024.
• Hirokazu Kobayashi, Atsushi Fukuoka
  Mechanochemical hydrolysis of chitin over carbon-based catalysts
  18th International Congress on Catalysis, Lyon (France), Sept. 16, 2024.

2023

Papers

• H. Kobayashi, Y. Suzuki, T. Sagawa, M. Saito, A. Fukuoka
  Selective Synthesis of Oligosaccharides by Mechanochemical Hydrolysis of Chitin over a Carbon-Based Catalyst
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 62(3), e202214229 (2023). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202214229
  Selected as a Very Important Paper, highlighted as a front cover.
  News in English: Science Japan (Jan. 13, 2023) and in Chinese: Keguan Riben (Jan. 26, 2023)
  
• L. Yu, E. Kurniawan, T. Ozawa, H. Kobayashi, Y. Yamada, S. Sato
  Catalytic dehydration of crotyl alcohol into 1,3-butadiene over silica-supported metal oxides: Mechanistic features
  Mol. Catal., 537, 112939 (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2023.112939
• A. Shrotri, K. Eguchi, L. Mahardiani, H. Kobayashi, M. Yamashita, H. Yagita, A. Fukuoka
  Solvent-Assisted Adsorption of Cellulose on a Carbon Catalyst as a Pretreatment Method for Hydrolysis to Glucose
  Chemistry, 5, 381-392 (2023). DOI: 10.3390/chemistry5010028
  Special Issue for Prof. Avelino Corma
• A. Fukuoka, H. Kobayashi
  Valorization of Cellulose and Chitin into Valuable Chemicals by Heterogeneous Catalysis
  J. Jpn. Petrol. Inst., 66(2), 48-56 (2023). DOI: 10.1627/jpi.66.48
• H. Kobayashi, T. Sagawa, A. Fukuoka
  Catalytic conversion of chitin as a nitrogen-containing biomass
  Chem. Commun., 59, 6301-6313 (2023). DOI: 10.1039/D3CC00902E
  Selected as a Pioneering Investigators 2023.
• L. Li, A. Shrotri, K. Kato, A. Fukuoka, H. Kobayashi
  Mordenite-stabilised rhenium catalyst for partial oxidation of methane to syngas
  Catal. Sci. Technol., 13, 5190-5196 (2023). DOI: 10.1039/D3CY00077J
  Highlighted in a backcover.
  
• S. Saito, N. Numadate, H. Teraoka, S. Enami, H. Kobayashi, T. Hama
  Impurity contribution to ultraviolet absorption of saturated fatty acids
  Sci. Adv., 9(38), eadj6438 (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj6438
• S. Pring, H. Kato, S. Imano, M. Camagna, A. Tanaka, H. Kimoto, P. Chen, A. Shrotri, H. Kobayashi, A. Fukuoka, M. Saito, T. Suzuki, R. Terauchi, I. Sato, S. Chiba, D. Takemoto
  Induction of plant disease resistance by mixed oligosaccharide elicitors prepared from plant cell wall and crustacean shells
  Physiol. Plant., 175(5), e14052 (2023). DOI: 10.1111/ppl.14052

Other publications

• H. Kobayashi, A. Shrotri, A. Fukuoka
  Hydrolysis of Polysaccharide Biomass by Activated Carbon Catalysts
  Shokubai, 65(1), 2-8 (2023).

Oral presentation

• Hirokazu Kobayashi
  Synthesis of oligosaccharides from chitin using activated carbon catalysts and mechanical forces
  37th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Chitin and Chitosan, Tottori (Japan), invited lecture, Sept. 5, 2023.
• Hirokazu Kobayashi
  Mechanocatalytic Conversion of Chitin to Nitrogen-Containing Compounds
  Taiwan International Conference on Catalysis 2023, Tainan (Taiwan), invited lecture, June 29, 2023.

Poster presentation

• H. Kobayashi, R. Shimane, N. Nishimura, T. Iwai
  Hydrolysis of Crystalline Cellulose over a Nano-sized Carbon Catalyst
  TU/e-ICAT Joint International Symposium on Catalysis, Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Nov. 1, 2023.

2022

Papers

• T. Sagawa, H. Kobayashi, C. Murata, Y. Shichibu, K. Konishi, M. Hashizume, A. Fukuoka
  Catalytic Synthesis of Oxazolidinones from a Chitin-Derived Sugar Alcohol
  Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 95(7), 1054-1059 (2022). DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20220106
  Selected Paper, highlighted as an inside cover.
  

Other publications

• H. Kobayashi
  Development of Biomass Conversion Catalysts toward Material Cycle
  University of Tokyo Environmental Report 2022, 19 (2022).

Award

• Hirokazu Kobayashi
  JACI Prize for Encouraging Young Researcher, 固体触媒法によるキチン利活用技術の開発, JACI, June 28, 2022.

Oral presentation

• Hirokazu Kobayashi, Yusuke Suzuki, Takuya Sagawa, Mizuho Yabushita, Kota Techikawara, Atsushi Fukuoka
  Hydrolysis of chitin with acid catalysts in the presence of mechanical forces
  TOCAT9, Fukuoka (Japan), July 26, 2022.
• Yuta Nabae, Tomomi Onitake, Teruaki Hayakawa, Cheng Yang, Atsushi Fukuoka, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  Phthalic acid-immobilized polymer beads of hyperbranched poly(ether ketone) for hydrolysis of glycosidic bonds
  12th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis, Suita (Japan), July 31, 2022.

Poster presentation

• Takuya Sagawa, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Mineo Hashizume, Atsushi Fukuoka
  Synthesis of oxazolidinone compounds from sugar alcohol derived from chitin
  TOCAT9, Fukuoka (Japan), July 25, 2022.