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Coordination Chemistry Lab (Takahiro Matsumoto)
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A lab that develops new organometallic catalysts to produce hydrogen and ammonia.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating new catalysts to take on the challenge of a sustainable society.
The lab works on developing new organometallic catalysts in the fields of coordination chemistry and catalytic chemistry.
It is developing new technologies to produce commodity chemicals such as hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol from biomass, taking on the challenge of realizing a sustainable and self-sufficient society.
Its work includes photocatalytic reactions that use light energy and the activation of inert molecules, which are molecules that resist reacting.
Associate Professor Takahiro Matsumoto belongs to the Department of Applied Chemistry in the Faculty of Engineering and joins the School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation as a special participating faculty member.
Key terms
- Commodity chemicals
- Basic chemicals that serve as raw materials for many chemical products, such as hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol
- Photocatalytic reaction
- A catalytic reaction driven by light energy. The lab also uses it in its hydrogen and ammonia synthesis reactions
- Nitrate ion
- An ion that causes problems such as water pollution and eutrophication. The lab developed a reaction that converts it into ammonia
ResearchResearch themes
The lab centers on the development of new organometallic catalysts and works on the activation of inert molecules, photocatalytic reactions, and the conversion of biomass into useful resources. By creating technologies that produce commodity chemicals from biomass, it aims to realize a sustainable and self-sufficient society.
*Illustrative imageHydrogen from alcohols using light and iron ions
The lab discovered a reaction system that produces hydrogen from alcohols simply by applying light energy, using iron ions as the catalyst. A study on hydrogen generation from methanol was published as a paper in 2026.
*Illustrative imageTurning nitrate ions into ammonia with methane
The lab developed a rhenium-catalyzed reaction that uses methane as the reducing agent to synthesize ammonia from nitrate ions in a single operation (one-pot) at room temperature under ultraviolet light. Converting nitrate ions into ammonia, a useful raw material, would contribute to the recycling of nitrogen resources.
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: “Ammonia-3D-balls-A” Ben Mills / Public domain (cropped)
- Hydrogen from alcohols using light and iron ions: “Cassiopeia A- Chandra X-ray Image with Scale Bar (X-rays from Iron ions) (2000-cas a062700-more-6)” (Credit: NASA/GSFC/U.Hwang et al. ) / Public domain (cropped)
- Turning nitrate ions into ammonia with methane: “Ammonia-3D-vdW” Benjah-bmm27 / Public domain (cropped)
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