Fukuyama studied chemistry at
Nagoya University with degrees Bachelor's (1971) and Master's (1973) degrees. As a graduate student, he then worked at
Harvard University, where he received his doctorate in 1977 as an academic student of
Yoshito Kishi. Until 1978, he continued his research as a postdoc in the Department of Chemistry of Harvard University and then moved to
Rice University as an assistant professor, where in 1988 he obtained the rank of a chair holder. In 1995, he accepted a professorship in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the
University of Tokyo, Japan. Since 2013, Fukuyama has been working as a professor at the Nagoya University - more precisely: Designated Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Practical Total Synthesis of (±)-Mitomycin C, T. Fukuyama and L.-H. Yang,
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 111, 8303–8304 (1989).
Facile Reduction of Ethyl Thiol Esters to Aldehydes: Application to a Total Synthesis of (+)-Neothramycin A Methyl Ether, T. Fukuyama, S.-C. Lin, and L.-P. Li, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 7050–7051 (1990).
Total Synthesis of (+)-Leinamycin, Y. Kanda and T. Fukuyama, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 8451–8452 (1993).
2- and 4-Nitrobenzenesulfonamides: Exceptionally Versatile Means for Preparation of Secondary Amines and Protection of Amines, T. Fukuyama, C.-K. Jow, and M. Cheung,
Tetrahedron Lett., 36, 6373–6374 (1995).
“Radical Cyclization of 2-Alkenylthioanilides: A Novel Synthesis of 2,3-Disubstituted Indoles,” H. Tokuyama, T. Yamashita, M. T. Reding, Y. Kaburagi, and T. Fukuyama, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 3791–3792 (1999).
Stereocontrolled Total Synthesis of (+)-Vinblastine, S. Yokoshima, T. Ueda, S. Kobayashi, A. Sato, T. Kuboyama, H. Tokuyama, and T. Fukuyama, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, 2137–2139 (2002).
Total Synthesis of (+)-Yatakemycin, K. Okano, H. Tokuyama, and T. Fukuyama, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 7136–7137 (2006).
A Practical Synthesis of (–)-Oseltamivir, N. Satoh, T. Akiba, S. Yokoshima, and T. Fukuyama,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 5734–5736 (2007).
A Practical Synthesis of (–)-Kainic Acid, S. Takita, S. Yokoshima, and T. Fukuyama, Org. Lett., 13, 2068–2070 (2011).
Total Synthesis of Ecteinascidin 743, F. Kawagishi, T. Toma, T. Inui, S. Yokoshima, and T. Fukuyama, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 13684–13687 (2013).