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Natural Product Organic Chemistry Lab
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The lab combines catalysts to directly convert ordinary bonds into new ones.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating organic synthesis that takes no detours.
The Natural Product Organic Chemistry Lab develops reactions that directly convert ordinary bonds in organic molecules into new bonds.
Much of current organic synthesis requires molecules to be functionalized beforehand, so reaching the target compound takes many steps and generates many by-products.
Many reactions also depend on rare chemicals and elements, so the lab also explores reactions that make use of naturally abundant resources such as silicon and biomass.
Catalysts are the key. Centered on transition metal complex catalysts and combining Lewis acid catalysts, organocatalysts, enzyme catalysts, and solid catalysts, the lab aims at transformations that become possible only through their cooperation.
Key terms
- Functionalization
- Attaching a reactive site to part of a molecule beforehand so that it leads to the next reaction
- Transition metal complex catalyst
- A catalyst in which organic molecules are bound to a metal such as iron or palladium, driving a reaction forward
- Biomass
- A resource derived from living organisms such as plants, which can be obtained repeatedly
NewsLab news
A master's student received a Poster Award at the Kyoto University-ACS Publications Joint Forum
A master's student received a Poster Presentation Award at the 71st Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, Japan
A master's student received an Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the 14th CSJ Chemistry Festa 2024
ResearchResearch themes
The lab works on developing reactions that directly convert ordinary bonds in organic molecules into new bonds, and reactions that make effective use of naturally abundant resources such as silicon and biomass. Centered on transition metal complex catalysts and using Lewis acid, organic, enzyme, and solid catalysts in combination, it pursues not only usefulness but also novelty and interest as science.
*Illustrative imageMaking reagents from phenols
Using a catalyst in which two metals, rhodium and aluminum, cooperate, the lab developed a method to cleave the carbon–oxygen bond of phenol derivatives and convert them into Grignard reagents. It can be used to make a variety of compounds (2026).
*Illustrative imageRemaking bonds in ethers
To turn carbon–oxygen single bonds, which are common in natural products and polymers, into high-value raw materials, the lab developed a reaction that introduces a silicon group into ethers, using a rhodium–indium alloy as the catalyst (2025).
MembersFaculty
The members of the Natural Product Organic Chemistry Lab are faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, visiting students, and academic support staff.
- ProfessorYoshiaki Nakao
- Assistant ProfessorMiyuto Kashihara
- Assistant ProfessorNatsuki Kato
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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: “Glovebox at Gdansk University of Technology” LukaszKatlewa / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Making reagents from phenols: “Phenol-3D-balls” Benjah-bmm27 / Public domain (cropped)
- Remaking bonds in ethers: “Wilkinson's-catalyst-2D” Benjah-bmm27 / Public domain (cropped)
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