Professor Takashi Niwa from Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan will give a research seminar on “Borylation-Based Synthetic Strategies for Expeditious Development of Molecular Probes”.  He will discuss issues that chemists should solve to promote interdisciplinary research followed by their recent efforts in developing transition-metal-based borylative and deborylative transformations that are suitable for functionalizing bioactive compounds. Details can be found below.