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NEWS & TOPICS

2025/4/1 news

We welcome Ogawa, Itai, and Soga as new B4 students, Koguchi as a new M1 student, Fukuda as a new PhD student, and Yamamoto as a new postdoctoral researcher.
2024/2/14 news

Mr. Iseri was awarded ICR Award for Graduate Students. Congratulations!
2024/2/12 news

TSK Corporation, of which Prod. Masaharu Nakamura is a director, was interviewed in The Chemimal Daily.

2024/2/5 for students

[For prospective students]　The schedule of lab visits has been released.
Table for lab visits 2023. 　

	Date	Time	Place	Staff in Charge	Phone Number
1st	2/7(Fri)	11:00, 13:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C	Masaharu Nakamura	0774-38-3180/090-4292-3180
2nd	2/10(Mon)	16:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C	Masaharu Nakamura	0774-38-3180/090-4292-3180
3rd	2/12(Wed)	After Uji area common joint information session	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C	Masaharu Nakamura	0774-38-3180/090-4292-3180
4th	2/13(Fri)	11:00, 13:00 14:00, 15:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C	Isozaki, Doba, Nakagawa, Mineo (, Nakamura)	0774-38-3182/090-4292-3180
5th	2/14(Mon)	9:00, 11:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C	Masaharu Nakamura	0774-38-3180/090-4292-3180
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NEWS&
TOPICS

supramolecule

"Two- and Four-Armed Hetero Porphyrin Dimers: Influence of the Number of Arms on the Stability and Specific Recognition Behaviour"
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2021, 11, in press
mechanochemistry

"Mechanochemical Synthesis of Magnesium-based Carbon Nucleophiles in Air and Their Use in Organic Synthesis"
Nature Commun. 2021, 12, 6691
supramolecule

"Synthesis of a Mechanically Planar Chiral and Axially Chiral [2]Rotaxane"
Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 8678−8682

"Development of synthetic chemistry that enables
advanced utilization of unused chemical resources"

The motivation and ultimate purpose of our research is the "Development of industrially important and scientifically interesting organic synthetic reactions and contributing to the realization of a better world."

To achieve this goal, we aim to develop new catalysts and new substances that can contribute to the solution to the most relevant resource and energy challenges. We are also striving to discover, design, and realize organic molecule conversion reactions that are currently impossible.

Currently, 17 faculty members / researchers and 10 graduate students / research students / undergraduate students are engaged in research in this group.

Iron-catalyzed Organic Synthesis
Development of catalytic reactions that utilize earth-abundant metal elements such as iron, and synthesis of bioactive substances and electronic material compounds using these reactions.

Supramolecular/Superatomic Catalysis
Creation of functional metal complex catalysts and functional metal nanoparticles / cluster catalysts based on the self-assembly of amino acids and peptides.

Woody Biomass Transformation
Development of new reactions for the direct conversion of woody biomass, which is a largely unexplored, abundant, and renewable carbon resource.

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RESEARCH

“Toward the best synthesis for Better Society”
We will work towards the goal of better and more sustainable society through the exploration of new methods for the synthesis of organic molecules from renewable sources, which will serve as the building blocks of a greener chemical industry.
While pursuing chemical studies, we will strive to become better scientists, to tackle the big issues of our generation, come up with new ideas and challenge the old ones.