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Coordination Chemistry Lab
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A lab that uses metal complex catalysts to produce commodity chemicals from biomass.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward a sustainable society through chemistry
The research group of Associate Professor Takahiro Matsumoto studies reactions that use catalysts made of molecules containing metals (complexes).
The group develops new technologies to produce commodity chemicals such as hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol from biomass, aiming to help realize a sustainable and self-sufficient society.
It also works on photocatalytic reactions that use the energy of light, and on making molecules that are hard to react undergo reactions.
Associate Professor Matsumoto is a specially participating faculty member of the School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation, and also belongs to the Applied Chemistry Division of the Faculty of Engineering.
Key terms
- Complex
- A compound formed when molecules or ions bind to a central metal.
- Biomass
- Resources derived from living organisms, such as plants. In this lab, it is used as a raw material for producing chemicals.
- Photocatalytic reaction
- A chemical reaction driven by the action of a catalyst using the energy of light.
ResearchResearch themes
By developing new catalytic reactions that use complexes, the Matsumoto research group aims to create technologies that produce commodity chemicals such as hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol from biomass. In recent years, it has reported in papers on reactions driven by light energy with iron ion and rhenium catalysts.
*Illustrative imagePhotochemical hydrogen evolution with iron ions
The group discovered a reaction system that produces hydrogen from alcohols simply by irradiating with light, using iron ions as the catalyst. It has reported photochemical hydrogen evolution from methanol in a paper.
*Illustrative imageConverting nitrate ions to ammonia with methane
In a co-authored paper, the group reports a rhenium-catalyzed reaction that synthesizes ammonia from nitrate ions in one pot, using methane as the reducing agent at room temperature under ultraviolet light. Nitrate ions cause environmental problems such as water pollution.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorTakahiro Matsumoto
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Photocatalysis LERF Timisoara RO 1” Mihai-Cosmin Pascariu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Photochemical hydrogen evolution with iron ions: “Catalyst zoom” Preston MacDougall / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Converting nitrate ions to ammonia with methane: “Methane CH4” Christinelmiller / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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