Base-Metal Catalysis

Volume one, focusing on copper and nickel catalysis, was published at the end of last year. Volume two, which covers cobalt, iron, manganese, and chromium catalysis, was completed this month. Many reviews from volume two are already available online on ESOS as Early View content. In total, this series includes 34 reviews. We would like to thank all the authors who contributed to this series.

Three authors from the volume two reviews will be speaking in today's webinar. Later in the session, I will demonstrate how to access the content of the Base Metal Catalysis volumes online using the current platform of ESOS.

To start off, I would like to introduce our chair for today, Professor Yoshikai. Born in 1978 and raised in Tokyo, Professor Yoshikai received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of Tokyo under the guidance of Professor I Aichi Nakamura. He served as an assistant professor at the same institute before moving to Singapore in 2009 to join the faculty at Nanyang Technological University. In 2016, he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. In 2021, he returned to Japan as a full Professor at Tohoku University. Professor Yoshikai's research focuses on exploring new reaction chemistry using transition metal catalysts and main group reagents for selective organic synthesis. I will now hand over to Professor Yoshikai to introduce the first speakers. Thank you for joining us today.