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Motokura-Manaka Lab
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The lab creates new catalysts and catalysis to develop environmentally friendly chemical reactions.
AboutAbout the lab
Environmentally friendly reactions through new catalysts.
Motokura-Manaka Lab conducts research to create new catalysts and new catalysis.
A catalyst is a key material for controlling chemical reactions, and high-performance catalysts make the production of substances more efficient.
The lab develops catalysts in which metal complexes, organic molecules, and functional groups on support surfaces work cooperatively, accelerating reactions or allowing sequential reactions to proceed in a single vessel.
Without being bound by the distinction between solid catalysts and molecular catalysts, the lab aims to realize environmentally benign chemical reactions with catalysts that go beyond conventional concepts.
Key terms
- Catalyst
- A substance that makes a chemical reaction proceed more easily without itself being changed
- Cooperative effect
- An effect in which multiple active sites work together on the same surface, accelerating a reaction
- One-pot synthesis
- A method of obtaining a target compound by carrying out multiple reactions in succession in a single reactor
ResearchResearch themes
A catalyst is a key material for controlling chemical reactions, and developing high-performance catalysts leads to more efficient production of substances and to an environmentally friendly society. Without being bound by the distinction between immobilized catalysts and molecular catalysts, the lab works to create new catalysts and catalysis that go beyond conventional catalyst concepts.
*Illustrative imageCooperative catalysis on solid surfaces
In catalysts with multiple catalytically active sites introduced on the same surface, reactions are accelerated by cooperative effects between the sites. The lab aims to establish new concepts in catalytic chemistry on solid surfaces.
*Illustrative imageChemical conversion of carbon dioxide
By developing highly active catalysts, the lab takes on the challenge of synthesizing useful compounds from carbon dioxide.
*Illustrative imageExpansion to one-pot synthesis
Multiple reactions proceed at multiple active sites, synthesizing the target product in a single reactor. Because there is no need to isolate and purify intermediates, environmentally friendly processes can be built.
MembersFaculty
- Program-Specific Associate ProfessorYuichi Manaka
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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: “Transforming Gas into Fuels with Better Alloys” OLCF / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Cooperative catalysis on solid surfaces: “Zeolites within an ECM” Savannah River National Laboratory / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Chemical conversion of carbon dioxide: “Molecule of CO2” Ljeto / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Expansion to one-pot synthesis: “Heterrogenous catalysis across scales” Edvin Fako / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Murahashi-Yamamoto Lab): “Palladium (Element - 46) 1” James St. John / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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