Organic Chemistry Lab

AboutAbout the lab

Synthesizing new molecules and uncovering their functions.

The Organic Chemistry Lab uses synthetic organic chemistry to study photochemistry and supramolecular chemistry.
The lab designs and synthesizes organic molecules that do not exist in nature, and pursues the synthesis of molecules and the elucidation of their functions in parallel.
It focuses in particular on molecules with functions related to luminescence and chirality.
Lab visits by undergraduate students of the Department of Chemistry and Life Science are accepted at any time.

ResearchResearch themes

Using the techniques of synthetic organic chemistry, it is possible to design and synthesize organic molecules that do not exist in nature. The lab synthesizes "original molecules" with new structures and studies their functions, particularly those related to luminescence and chirality.

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Molecules whose emission color changes when rubbed↗

The lab aims to clarify which molecules show mechanochromic luminescence, in which the emission color of a solid changes reversibly under mechanical stimuli such as rubbing, and to realize this property as desired. It works on developing donor–acceptor molecules with new designs and on two-component systems combined with other luminescent molecules.

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New functions of chiral molecules↗

Using asymmetric synthesis techniques, the lab has established a method to obtain chiral diol molecules through "double asymmetric addition," which creates two stereocenters at once. With this method, it is developing chiral molecules with new functions, such as molecules whose circularly polarized luminescence can be switched.

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