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Environmentally Harmonious Chemistry Lab
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A research group that adds high functionality to buried carbon resources through interdisciplinary integration.
AboutAbout the lab
Aiming to add high functionality to buried carbon resources
The Tahara Research Group calls simple hydrocarbons such as methane (the main component of natural gas), carbon dioxide, and wood-derived biomass compounds "buried" carbon resources, and studies how to make them more highly functional.
Building on organometallic chemistry, the group combines it with research areas such as chemical engineering, biochemistry, computational science, and polymer chemistry, and takes on problems from angles different from existing methods.
The group was launched in April 2021 and conducts research and education in cooperation with the lab of Professor Takayuki Doi (Reaction Control Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences).
On the lab's website, the group is introduced under the name "Tahara Research Group."
Key terms
- Organometallic chemistry
- A field of chemistry that deals with compounds in which metal atoms are bonded to carbon atoms.
- Simple hydrocarbons
- Simple molecules made only of carbon and hydrogen. A typical example is methane, the main component of natural gas.
- Biomass compounds
- Compounds contained in resources derived from living organisms, such as wood.
- Transition metal catalysts
- Substances that use metals such as iron, located in the middle of the periodic table, to make chemical reactions proceed more easily.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab defines as "buried" carbon resources those that have high potential as carbon sources but are underused because they are chemically stable and changing their molecules requires harsh conditions such as high temperature and high pressure. Centered on organometallic chemistry, it aims to make them highly functional through interdisciplinary integration with chemical engineering, biochemistry, computational science, and other fields.
*Illustrative imageConverting Hydrocarbons with Transition Metal Catalysts
The lab has reported that various covalent bonds are cooperatively activated on an iron–silicon bond. Inspired by this mechanism, it works on reactions that convert simple hydrocarbons through the cooperation of transition metals and main-group elements.
*Illustrative imageMaking Oxalic Acid from CO2
Oxalic acid that has acted as a reducing agent decomposes into CO2. If this CO2 can be regenerated as oxalic acid, a next-generation ironmaking method in which carbon is recycled can be proposed. The lab works on synthesizing oxalic acid from carbon dioxide and formic acid, its hydrogenated form.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Tahara Research Group consist of faculty, researchers, students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs, and international students (research students).As of 2024
- Assistant ProfessorAtsushi Tahara
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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: “BuretteFumeHood” Walkerma / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Converting Hydrocarbons with Transition Metal Catalysts: “Transition Metal Complex Electrocatalysts” Emma Ambrogi / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Making Oxalic Acid from CO2: “DSC06651 Blast Furnace 4, voestalpine Leoben-Donawitz, 2026” Aciarium / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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