Rate My Professor Shuhei Ohmura

Shuhei Ohmura is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Engineering at Nagoya University, affiliated with the Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry and the Laboratory of Catalysis in Organic Synthesis. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering from Nagoya University in March 2021, following undergraduate and graduate studies at the same institution from 2011 to 2021. Prior to his current appointment in April 2021, he served as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellow from April 2020 to March 2021.

Ohmura’s research focuses on organic synthetic chemistry, with particular emphasis on asymmetric catalysis, the reactivity of aromatic radical cations, and the development of chiral iron(III) photoredox catalysts for enantioselective radical cation cycloadditions. His work includes key publications such as “A Rational Design of Chiral Iron(III) Complexes for Photocatalytic Asymmetric Radical Cation (4 + 2) Cycloadditions and the Total Synthesis of (+)-Heitziamide A” (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026), “Highly Enantioselective Radical Cation [2 + 2] and [4 + 2] Cycloadditions by Chiral Iron(III) Photoredox Catalysis” (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023), and “Structure and Reactivity of Aromatic Radical Cations Generated by FeCl3” (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019). He has received several awards, including the Japan Chemical Society Tokai Branch Encouragement Award in 2024, the 38th Young Scholar Special Lecture Certificate from the Chemical Society of Japan in 2024, and the Shionogi Pharmaceutical Research Planning Award from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry in 2022. Ohmura is a member of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, the Chemical Society of Japan, and the Iodine Society.