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Structural Organic Chemistry Lab
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A lab that traps other molecules inside soccer-ball-shaped molecules.
AboutAbout the lab
Making interesting molecules with your own hands
The Structural Organic Chemistry Lab (Murata Lab) designs and synthesizes molecules whose structures are expected to yield new properties, closely investigates their structures and properties, and feeds theoretical interpretations back into the design of new molecules. Through this research cycle, the lab creates materials with properties never seen before.
Targeting molecules with new π-conjugated structures, the lab develops functional organic materials from the perspectives of structural organic chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, and main-group element chemistry.
Key terms
- Fullerene
- A molecule in which carbon atoms are linked in a spherical shape like a soccer ball
- π electron
- An electron that can move relatively freely within a molecule. It determines the molecule's color and electrical properties
- Chiral
- Having a shape that cannot be superimposed on its mirror image, like a right hand and a left hand
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims for its fundamental research, which synthesizes academically "interesting molecules" and brings out desired properties, to become the foundation for advancing organic chemistry and for the creation of new functional molecules.
*Illustrative imageFullerenes encapsulating small molecules
A molecule enclosed in a fullerene can be regarded as a gas that has lost its freedom to move around. From experimental values, the lab estimated the pressure of a single CO2 molecule confined inside, and found that encapsulation also changes the properties of the fullerene itself.
*Illustrative imageChiral fullerene dimers
What happens when chiral open-cage fullerenes are linked together? The lab synthesized conjugated and non-conjugated dimers, and found that the conjugated one shows distinctive electron-accepting behavior and a large difference in the absorption of circularly polarized light.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYasujiro Murata
- Assistant ProfessorYoshifumi Hashikawa
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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: “Molecular Model of C60, Buckminsterfullerene - UCL Chemistry” UCL Mathematical and Physical Sciences from London, UK / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Fullerenes encapsulating small molecules: “Endohedral fullerene” Hajv01 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Chiral fullerene dimers: “C60 Fullerene solution (1)” Alpha six from Germany / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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