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Organic Chemistry II Lab
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An organic synthesis lab that designs reactions for building complex natural products.
AboutAbout the lab
Building complex molecules exactly as intended.
The Organic Chemistry II Lab studies how to use chemistry to build organic compounds with complex structures.
Organic synthesis is like assembling building blocks: reaching a target molecule takes many transformations carried out in sequence.
Some drugs cannot become products because making them takes dozens of steps, so efficient reactions and shorter synthetic routes are in demand.
The lab develops highly selective reactions that use metal complexes and works on the total synthesis of bioactive natural products.
Key terms
- Natural product
- Organic compounds that animals, plants, and microorganisms produce in their bodies, such as pheromones, biological toxins, and antibiotics
- Total synthesis
- Building up a complex naturally occurring compound from simple starting materials using chemical reactions alone
- Functional group
- A group of atoms within a molecule that determines the molecule's properties and how it reacts
NewsLab news
A paper from the lab was accepted by Org. Lett.
Associate Professor Suzuki received the 2026 Nagase Research Promotion Award
A paper on total synthesis was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
A student received an Excellent Presentation Award at the Symposium on Organic Synthesis
A joint study with the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) and Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. was announced in a press release
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops new methodologies in organic synthesis, in particular highly selective transformations that use organometallic and transition metal complexes. Building on these, it designs synthetic routes and works on the total synthesis of bioactive natural products, biological toxins, and substances related to living organisms.
*Illustrative imageChemically synthesizing natural products in the laboratory
Animals, plants, and microorganisms produce a wide variety of organic molecules in their bodies, such as hormones, pheromones, biological toxins, and antibiotics. The lab studies how to chemically synthesize such biologically active natural products in the laboratory, without relying on living organisms.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping transformations for building complex molecules
Biologically active natural products often have skeletons of intricately branched chains or rings of various sizes, bearing diverse functional groups. To synthesize such molecules, the lab develops synthetic reagents that exploit the properties of elements, as well as efficient ways of forming bonds.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Organic Chemistry II Lab are faculty and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- Project ProfessorKeiji Tanino
- Associate ProfessorTakahiro Suzuki
- Assistant ProfessorJunya Takino
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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: “Column chromatography spinach” Kostasmes95 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Chemically synthesizing natural products in the laboratory: “Azadirachta indica MHNT.BOT.” Roger Culos / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Developing transformations for building complex molecules: “Chalcone (1,3-Diphenyl-2-propen-1-one) crystals” Alit Variatos / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Organic Chemistry I Lab): “Chemical solutions” Bismoldirs / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Organometallic Chemistry Lab): “Double vac line side view” Polimerek / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Organic Reaction Theory Lab): “Lab on a Chip ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
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