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
Click here to check access. Consult with us for times other than the set times. Please send e-mail to "masaharu_at_scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp". (Please convert "_at_" to "@".)

2025/1/30 news

Mr. Lu's research about iron-catalyzed suzuki-miyaura cross coupling reaction was introduced in Organic Chemistry Portal. Link is here.
2024/11/14 news

Joint research between our laboratory and Daicel Corporation was featured in the Chemical Daily.
2024/10/1 news

Mr. Zhang has been accepted to the Kyoto University SPRING Program. Congratulations!
2024/9/30 news

TSK Corporation, where Dr. Nakamura serves as CTO, was introduced in the Chemical Daily.Read article from here.
2024/9/24 news

Prof. Masaharu Nakamura appeared on BS TV Tokyo's “So Kyoto Business is Interesting - The DNA of the Only One to be Inherited.　Watch video from here.
2024/9/19 news

Mr. Iseri won the Poster Award at the 74th Symposium of The Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry. Congratulations!
2024/9/4 news

Prof. Masaharu Nakamura appeared on MBS Radio's “Koichi Takeuchi Kyo no Tashinami Chino no Takurami”.　※Podcast Free
2024/8/23 news

Results of Ph.D. and M.A. examinations announced today, Malani and Hao (admitted in October) passed the doctoral course, and Ando, Sekiya, and Koguchi passed the M.A. course! Congratulations to all of them!
2024/8/21 news

The Summer Seminar held with Kyoto Prefectural Sagano High School was posted on the Sagano High School blog. The link is here!
2024/8/1 news

Mr. Iseri was awarded the Poster Prize at the Organic Synthesis Young Scientists Seminar. Congratulations!
2024/6/27 news

TSK Corporation, of which Prod. Masaharu Nakamura is a director, was interviewed in KYOTO-iCap. The link is here!
2024/6/24 news

Lu's paper on iron-SciPROP catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of propargylic substrates has been accepted for publication on the inside back cover of JOC. Congratulations!
2024/6/17 news

Wu was awarded the Poster Prize at the 1st Resource Recycling Cooperative Conference in 2024. Congratulations!
2024/6/8 news

Mr. Saito's paper on nitrogen molecular superatomic molecules has been accepted for publication in JACS. Congratulations!
2024/5/30 news

The video introducing our laboratory has been uploaded on Youtube.
2024/5/9 news

Our paper on artificial lacquer materials utilizing lignin-degrading compounds has been accepted for the back cover of RSC Sust. Congratulations!
2024/4/22 news

Mr. Lu's paper on iron-SciPROP catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of propargylic substrates has been accepted for publication in JOC.
2024/4/1 news

Mr. Sekiya, Mr.Ando, Mr. Soga and Ms. Wang as newstudents, Mr.Kalum and Mrs.Malani as researchers joined our lab.
2024/3/25 news

A paper on artificial urushi material using lignin decomposition compounds has been accepted.
2024/2/22 news

Mr. Saito received the poster award at the 2020Graduate Student Research Presentation in Institute for Chemical Research. congratulations!

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(Thu)	9:00, 10:00, 11:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C	Masaharu Nakamura	0774-38-3180/090-4292-3180
2nd	2/14(Wed)	9:00, 10:00, 11:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C	Masaharu Nakamura	0774-38-3180/090-4292-3180
3rd	2/15(Thu)	13:00, 14:00, 15:00 16:00, 17:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C	Katsuhiro Isozaki Takahiro Doba	0774-38-3182
4th	2/16(Fri)	13:00, 14:00, 15:00 16:00, 17:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C	Masaharu Nakamura	0774-38-3180/090-4292-3180
5th	2/19(Mon)	13:00, 14:00, 15:00 16:00, 17:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C	Masaharu Nakamura	0774-38-3180/090-4292-3180
Click here to check access. On the morning of February 15, Uji area common joint information session will be held. Consult with us for times other than the set times. Please send e-mail to "masaharu_at_scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp". (Please convert "_at_" to "@".)

2024/1/22 news

TSK Corporation, of which Prof. Masaharu Nakamura is a director, was featured in the Chemical Daily.
You can access from here!
2023/12/26 news

Dr. Doba has been awarded the 40th Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists. Congratulations!
2023/12/22 news

Mr. Iseri's paper has been selected for the inside back cover of ACIE journal. Congratulations!
2023/12/22 news

Our paper on SciPROP-R, a ligand for iron catalysts, has been selected for the cover of BCSJ. Congratulations!
2023/11/24 news

Dr. Doba has been awarded the Incentive Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan. Congratulations!
2023/11/6 news

Mr. Iseri's paper has been published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
2023/11/2 news

Mr. Lu, Ms. Wu, and Mr. Wu have been selected for the Fellowship for Future Human Resources Development to Create Materials Innovation. Congratulations!
2023/11/1 news

Our paper on SciPROP-R, a ligand for iron catalysts, has been selected for the BCSJ Award Article. Congratulations!
2023/11/1 news

Ms. Inoue and Mr. Che joined our research members.
2023/10/30 news

Dr. Yoshiki Higuchi of the University of Hyogo was invited to give a lecture.
2023/10/7 news

Our paper on SciPROP-R, a ligand for iron catalysts, has been accepted by the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. Congratulations!
2023/9/19 news

Dr. Nakagawa was selected as a PRESTO. Congratulations!
2023/8/ news

Dr. Doba's doctoral thesis has been published by Springer.
2023/7/29 news

Dr. Pincella of our laboratory presented a report at the Research Units for Exploring Future Horizons Session 2023.
2023/7/28 news

Students from Sagano High School visited us for the Summer Seminar "Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University".
2023/6/1・2 news

Dr. Isobe of the University of Tokyo and Dr. Laurean of RIKEN were invited to give lectures.
2023/4/5 news

Takarako and Takeuchi joined as new students, and Mr. Zhang joined as a research student.
2023/4/1 news

Dr. Takahiro Doba has been appointed as Assistant Professor.
2023/3/20 news

To new students assigned to our laboratory in this year Meeting time and date: Monday, April 3, 9:00AM Place: Room M470C, 4F, Building M, Main Building of the Institute of Chemical Research. Please come in clothes that you can work in. We will have a welcome BBQ in the afternoon!
　　
2023/3/1 news

Dr. Katsuhiro Isozaki was promoted to Associate Professor.
　　
2023/3/1 news

Dr. Keito Mineo has been appointed as a Program-Specific Assistant Professor.

2023/2/1 for students

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

	Date	Time	Place
1st	2/7(Tue)	10:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C
2nd	2/8(Wed)	10:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C
3rd	2/10(Fri)	10:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C
4th	2/14(Tue)	13:00, 15:00, 17:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C
5th	2/17(Fri)	13:00, 15:00	Uji Campus Main Building M-470C
Click here to check access. Consult with us for times other than the set times. Please send e-mail to "masaharu_at_scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp". (Please convert "_at_" to "@".)

There will also be a joint information session for the Dept. Energy & Hydrocarbon Chem. (online) on 7 February at 13:15 and for the Uji area (CL-110, Large Seminar Room, Joint Research Building, Uji Campus) on 9 February at 14:15.

2023/1/27 news

Prof. Ogasawara from the Tokushima University was invited to give lectures.
2022/12/5 news

Some of the results of joint research with Daicel Corporation will be exhibited at the 2nd Sustainable Materials Expo to be held at Makuhari Messe from 7-9 December 2022.
Exhibit location: booth 17-6 (in the Daicel booth)
For more details, please click on the banner below.

Please click on the banner below to visit the Sustainable Materials Expo website.
2022/12/2 news

Urushi workshop will be organized by our group on 12 December.
Check details from official website or Kyoto University's website.
You can register from here.
2022/11/28 news

Dr. Ito from the Nanyang Technological University were invited to give lectures.
2022/10/14 news

Dr. Hao from the Brandeis University were invited to give lectures.
2022/10/3 news

Dr. Das from the Indian Institute of Technology Indore and Dr. Wirth from Cardiff University were invited to give lectures.
2022/9/28 news

Mr. Iseri has been accepted informally as a JSPS Research Fellow (DC1). Congratulations.
2022/9/22 news

Dr. Doba of the Theoretical Chemistry (Maeda and Takahashi) Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, was invited to give a lecture.
2022/9/8 news

Mr. Ueda and Mr. Shikami have passed the Master's Program Entrance Examination and Mr. Iseri, Mr. Wu, Mr. Yin and Ms. Wu have passed the Doctoral Program Entrance Examination (Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering). Congratulations.
2022/8/5 news

Dr.Mineo's "Drawing a path toward a carbon-circulating society living with forests through the collaboration of laboratory science, field science, and social science" has been adopted as an Interdisciplinary Research Project by Institute for the Future of Human Society.
2022/8/5 news

An article on TSK corporation, where Prof. Nakamura serves as CTO, was published in The Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun
2022/４/1 news

Dr. Keito MINEO joined as a Program-Specific Researcher, and Kyosuke UEDA and Satoshi SHIKAMI joined as graduation research work students.
2022/2/18 news

Dr. Aoki joined our group as a researcher.
2022/1/27 news

IUPAC Global Women's Breakfast 2022 - joint Kyoto University and OIST event was held online on February 16th.
Thank you for your paticipation.
2022/1/26 for students

[For prospective students]　The schedule of lab visits was released.
Thank you for your paticipation.
2021/10/25 news

The comprehensive cooperation agreement between Kyoto University and Daicel was introduced in the Chem-Station News "Daicel announced the development result on sustainable material and comprehensive collaboration with Kyoto University" on October 19.
Chem-Station
2021/10/25 news

The research result of "Gold Nanocluster Functionalized with Peptide Dendron Thiolates: Acceleration of the Photocatalytic Oxidation of an Amino Alcohol in a Supramolecular Reaction Field" is featured on ICR Website.
ICR
2021/10/15 award

Mr. Wu Dongran, a first-year master's student, was selected as a General Incorporated Hoshizaki Nova Foundation scholarship student.
2021/10/8 news

Kyoto University and Daicel signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement, which was picked up by the media.
PR TIMES
2021/10/1 news

Dr. NAKAGAWA-KAWAHARA Yuka has joined our group as a program-specific assistant professor. She will concurrently work at the Biomass Product Tree Joint Research Division, Biomass Product Tree Industry-Academia Collaborative Research Laboratory, Kyoto University.
2021/9/7 news

Mr. Saito, Ms. Kihara have passed the Master's Program Entrance Examination (Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering). Congratulations.
2021/9/6 award

Second year Ph.D. student Lu Siming, has been selected as a scalar for General Incorporated Associations SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.
2021/9/1 news

Our research result "Iron-catalysed enantioselective carbometalation of azabicycloalkenes" has been published on the website of ICR, Kyoto University.
2021/8/20 news

The graduate school entrance examination for the Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry will be held on August 23 and 24. Good luck to all senior students!
2021/8/20 news

Ms. Osaki has retired. Thank you for your work.
2021/8/12 news

An article about the Woody Biomass Transformation project, a joint research project with DAICEL Corp., was published in OBAKU No.55, a PR publication of ICR.
Article PDF　OBAKU No.55 PDF（ICR website）
2021/7/1 news

Ms. Ikeda has retired and became the exclusive secretary of the Ohki laboratory of ICR. Thank you very much for your work over these years.
Ms. Yuko Kuroyanagi has been newly appointed as a secretary.
2021/6/1 news

Mr. Chen joined us as a research student.
2021/5/30 news

Prof. Nakamura is preparing for the establishment of TSK Co., Ltd. on July 1, within the framework of the Kyoto University incubation project (7th adoption + update).
2021/5/1 news

Mr. Keito Mineo, a doctoral student in the Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, has joined as a member of the DAlCEL joint research project.
2021/4/6 news

We held the 1st wood molecular transformation seminar about Japanese foresty with Mr. Mineo, who studies forestry and forestry economics in Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science, Kyoto University.
2021/4/5 news

The interview of Prof. Nakamura and Assis. Prof. Isozaki about the social innovation catalyst project was published on the research information portal of Kyoto University "K.U.RESEARCH".
2021/4/5 news

Mr. Saito and Ms. Kihara as B4 students, Mr. Wu as a M1 student, Ms. Osaki as an assistant administrative staff, Ms. Fukumoto as an assistant technical staff, joined our group.
2021/3/24 news

Mr. Yamamoto and Mr. Wang got the Master degree, and Mr. Iseri and Mr. Suzuki got the bachelor degree. Congulatulations!
2021/3/6 news

The URL of this website has been updated.
2021/2/25 news

Mr. Yin has passed the entrance examination for foreign students in the master's program for the April 2021 period (Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering). Congratulations.
2021/1/19 for students

[For prospective students] The schedule of our lab-tour (local, ZOOM) has been decided. Click here for details.
2021/1/14 for students

[For prospective students] ZOOM orientation by laboratories in Uji campus (Institute for Chemical Research and Institute of Advanced Energy) will be held. Click here for details.
2021/1/13 news

Mr. Son, researcher in our laboratory and director of NMR Co., Ltd., was featured in Rakutai Shinpo.
2020/1/7 for students

[For prospective students] We are accepting inquiries at any time. Click here for details.
2020/12/25 news

The laboratory website has been renewed.
2020/9/1 news

Mr. Iseri, Mr. Suzuki, Ms. Wu, and Mr. Wu (currently Chiba University) have passed the Master's Program Entrance Examination (Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering). Congratulations.
2020/4/2 news

Mr. Iseri and Mr. Suzuki joined our lab as the new B4, Ms. Wu as a research student, and Mr. Rin as an office assistant.
2020/4/1 news

Development of Next-Generation Chemical Industry through Precision Catalytic Chemical Synthesis, part of Kyoto University Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration Headquarters Incubation Program started. Dr. Son, Mr. Ryosuke Matsuura and Mr. Avena have joined.
2019/12/4 award

Professor Masaharu Nakamura received the "Synthetic Organic Chemistry Association Award, Nissan Chemical Organic Synthesis, New Reaction Method Award". Congratulations.
2019/8/31 news

Announcement of entrance examination results for the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Engineering. Mr. Lu (to Nakamura Lab) and Mr. Kawasaki (to Fukazawa Lab) have passed the doctoral program's entrance examination (Graduate School of Engineering). Congratulations.