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Controlled Polymer Synthesis Lab
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A lab that creates brilliant molecules using radicals and curved aromatic compounds.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating 'brilliant molecules' through organic synthesis and polymer synthesis
The Controlled Polymer Synthesis Lab (Yamago Lab) aims to create 'brilliant molecules' through organic synthesis and polymer synthesis, with the keywords radicals, living radical polymerization, heteroatom compounds, organometallic compounds, curved aromatic compounds, and functional materials.
A major goal of the lab is to precisely synthesize high-molecular-weight molecules whose structures have been difficult to control during synthesis.
The lab also keeps in mind that materials built around the compounds it develops will actually be used in society.
Key terms
- Radical
- Radical: a highly reactive atom or molecule with an unpaired electron
- Living radical polymerization
- Living radical polymerization: a polymerization method in which polymer chains grow while their length and chain ends are controlled
- Cycloparaphenylene
- Cycloparaphenylene: a molecule in which benzene rings are linked in a ring shape. It corresponds to the smallest unit of a carbon nanotube
ResearchResearch themes
The lab creates new functional molecules by controlling radical reactions with heteroatom compounds and by synthesizing curved aromatic compounds.
*Illustrative imageControlling radical reactions and radical polymerization
The lab developed organotellurium, organoantimony, and organobismuth polymerization control agents, and achieved living radical polymerization with a high degree of control over molecular weight and molecular weight distribution. It also selectively synthesizes polymers such as block copolymers.
*Illustrative imageSynthesis of cycloparaphenylenes
Using a new synthetic method that employs a tetranuclear platinum complex as a precursor, the lab synthesized cycloparaphenylene, the smallest structural unit of a carbon nanotube. It also showed that this molecule exhibits strong fluorescence and can be applied to materials such as cage-shaped molecules.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorShigeru Yamago
- Assistant ProfessorMisato Akiyoshi
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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: “CNT CPP” Duckhemist / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Controlling radical reactions and radical polymerization: “Tellurium pieces” Jan Anskeit / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Synthesis of cycloparaphenylenes: “C60@ CPP” Duckhemist / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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