8th Yoshida Prize Symposium

The Yoshida Prize committee selected Professor Jishan Wu at NUS as the 2025 awardee. The award ceremony took place at the Yoshida Prize Symposium which was held at Kyoto on November 28, 2025. At the symposium, Prof. Wu and two other distinguished organic chemists, Prof. Yumiko Nakajima at Institute of Science Tokyo and Prof. Hayato Tsurugi at the University of Osaka, gave a scientific presentation.

1. Yumiko Nakajima (Institute of Science Tokyo)

Precise Design of 3d Metal Catalysts Based on Metal-ligand Cooperation Functions

2. Hayato Tsurugi (the University of Osaka)

Early Transition Metal Complexes as Catalysts for the Transformation of Alkynes into π-Conjugated Compounds

3. The Yoshida Prize Ceremony

4. The Yoshida Prize Lecture; Jishan Wu (National University of Singapore)

Diradicaloids, Aromaticity, and Topological Molecular Carbons