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Organic Molecular Chemistry Lab
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The lab designs transition metal catalysts to create new reactions rich in surprises.
AboutAbout the lab
Drawing out the power of metals to create new reactions.
The Organic Molecular Chemistry Lab aims to develop unexpected new reactions and new transformation methods based on the design and creation of new transition metal catalysts.
Once a new methodology is established, useful organic compounds can be made in fewer steps.
Compounds that have been difficult to synthesize until now also come within reach.
The lab wants to draw out the diverse capabilities of various transition metal elements and make new discoveries from them.
Key terms
- Transition metal catalyst
- A catalyst that drives chemical reactions with a transition metal, such as iron, copper, or ruthenium, at its center
- Enantiomer
- Two molecules that are mirror images of each other and cannot be superimposed
- Carbene metal complex
- A complex in which a highly reactive carbon species (a carbene) is bound to a metal
NewsLab news
A paper from the lab was published in Eur. J. Org. Chem.
A paper from the lab was published in Eur. J. Org. Chem.
A paper from the lab was published in Asian J. Org. Chem.
A paper from the lab was published in Organometallics
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to develop unexpected new reactions and new transformation methods based on the design and creation of new transition metal catalysts. A new methodology not only makes it possible to produce useful organic compounds in fewer steps, but also enables the synthesis of compounds that have been difficult to make until now.
*Illustrative imageChiral Carbene Metal Complex Catalysts
Asymmetric synthesis, which selectively makes one enantiomer, is a difficult problem because the two enantiomers have the same properties except for optical rotation. In catalytic asymmetric synthesis, which can produce a large amount of an enantiomer from a small amount of chiral source, the lab is developing more broadly applicable metal complex catalysts that make up for the limited stability of conventional complex catalysts using chiral phosphine ligands.
*Illustrative imageBuilding Substituted Aromatic Compounds by Ring Closure
Substituted aromatic compounds are essential for materials, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemicals, but conventional electrophilic aromatic substitution requires harsh conditions and also produces regioisomers that are difficult to separate. The lab is developing a method in which an acyclic starting material with substituents already arranged at the desired positions is prepared and then ring-closed and aromatized, so that only the target compound is obtained.
*Illustrative imageSynthesis of Adamantane Derivatives
If the four hydrogens at the bridgehead positions of adamantane are connected by lines, they form a regular tetrahedron larger than the one formed by the four hydrogens of methane. Regarding adamantane as a large analogue of methane, the lab synthesizes a variety of building blocks that have this skeleton.
*Illustrative imageSearching for Catalysts by Sequential Asymmetric Reactions
Some products of catalytic asymmetric reactions can themselves serve as the next asymmetric catalyst without any workup. By linking two asymmetric reactions, the second-stage catalyst can be changed one after another depending on the combination of substrate and reagent in the first stage, so the lab believes this could become an efficient method for catalyst screening.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Organic Molecular Chemistry Lab consist of faculty and students in the master's program and the undergraduate program.As of 2026
- ProfessorKazuhiro Yoshida
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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: “Palladium (46 Pd)” Hi-Res Images of Chemical Elements / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Chiral Carbene Metal Complex Catalysts: “Photoluminescent rhodium coordination complex crystals under UV light” RhAgchem / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Building Substituted Aromatic Compounds by Ring Closure: “Aromatic Fluorocarbon” TBChem at English Wikipedia / Public domain (cropped)
- Synthesis of Adamantane Derivatives: “Adamantane 3D ball” Jynto (talk) / CC0 (cropped)
- Searching for Catalysts by Sequential Asymmetric Reactions: “Asymmetric hydrogenation ligands” Mfomich / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Organic Reaction Chemistry Lab): “Iodine crystal” 2x910 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Synthetic Organic Chemistry Lab): “Rampe à vide” Serge Brière / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Environmental Analytical Chemistry Lab): “Nacreous aragonite ("mother-of-pearl") 9” James St. John / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Molecular Nano-Physical Chemistry Lab): “MOF-545-Fe Crystal Structure” Alexisfortini / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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