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Ohmori-Ando Lab
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A lab that builds complex natural molecules from scratch using new reactions.
AboutAbout the lab
Making organic compounds at will, with complete freedom.
The Ohmori-Ando Lab studies the total synthesis of natural organic compounds, along with new reactions and synthetic logic that help with such syntheses.
The ultimate goal is to be able to synthesize organic compounds at will, with complete freedom.
The lab puts its ingenuity into the strategies for efficiently building rare compounds and unstable, hard-to-handle compounds.
A distinctive feature of the lab is that many members come from other universities, and postdoctoral researchers and international students from abroad also join.
Key terms
- Total synthesis
- Building a complex molecule from scratch using only chemical reactions, starting from simple, readily available compounds.
- Natural organic compound
- An organic compound produced by living things such as plants and microorganisms. Also called a natural product.
- Bioactivity
- The property of affecting the functions of a living body, such as action as a drug or a poison.
NewsLab news
Research on the total synthesis of natural products published in Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn.
Total synthesis of the natural products BE-54238A and B published in Org. Lett.
A master's student won an Excellent Presentation Award at the Kanto Branch Symposium of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
A doctoral student won a Student Presentation Award at the Spring Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan
Associate Professor Ando and colleagues won the Tejima Seiichi Memorial Research Award (Research Paper Award)
ResearchResearch themes
With the goal of being able to synthesize organic compounds at will, with complete freedom, the lab takes on the total synthesis of natural organic compounds. It also develops new reactions and synthetic logic useful for such syntheses, and creates molecules that have never existed before.
*Illustrative imageTotal synthesis of natural products
The lab takes on the total synthesis of natural organic compounds that are hard to make by combining existing methods, such as rare ones available only in tiny amounts from nature and ones with strong bioactivity or unusual structures.
*Illustrative imageDevelopment of new reactions
To synthesize compounds that cannot be made by combining existing methodologies, the lab develops new methodologies. It has developed many reactions, including rearrangement reactions and benzyne reactions.
*Illustrative image“Interesting molecules” born from imagination
Drawing on the know-how built through natural product synthesis and reaction development, the lab also follows its interests to create “interesting molecules” that have never existed before.
MembersFaculty
The Ohmori-Ando Lab consists of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKen OhmoriPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorYoshio AndoPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorJun ShimuraPublications ↗
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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: “Coloured column chromatography ( )” Максим Фомич / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Total synthesis of natural products: “Streptomyces griseus on chocolate agar (Espinoza 2022)” Carlos Espinoza, Pedro Morales, Brenda Perez, Alvaro Huaca, Alejandra Céspedes ほか
/ CC BY 4.0 (cropped) - Development of new reactions: “Crystallisation? Reaction? Don't remember ( )” Максим Фомич / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- “Interesting molecules” born from imagination: “Side-on view of 2,2 paracyclophane” Smokefoot / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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