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Organic Design Lab
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Opening up materials science with new reactions and helical polymers.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing, creating, and putting organic molecules to work.
The Organic Design Lab (Suginome Lab) aims to develop innovative molecular transformation reactions and new functional materials.
Building on organometallic chemistry, the lab searches for new reactions and reagents and develops efficient methods for synthesizing organic compounds containing silicon and boron.
The lab also studies the precise synthesis of organic polymers whose three-dimensional structures are highly controlled.
From organic synthetic chemistry to polymer science and functional materials science, the lab seeks to open a new academic field that bridges disciplines.
Key terms
- Intramolecular reaction
- A reaction that occurs between two parts within a single molecule.
- Helical polymer
- A polymer whose chain is coiled into a helix. It can be right-handed or left-handed.
- Chiral
- The property of not being superimposable on one's mirror image, like the right and left hands.
NewsLab news
A doctoral student received the Oral Presentation Award at the 72nd Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry
Assistant Professor Yukako Yoshinaga received the Hodogaya Chemical Research Planning Award from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
A doctoral student received a Poster Award at the 29th Symposium of the Silicon Chemistry Association
A doctoral student received a Poster Award (Chemistry Letters Young Investigator Award) at OMCOS-22
ResearchResearch themes
The lab pursues a variety of research themes related to the "design, creation, and function of organic molecules." Pursuing new discoveries and principles in organic synthetic chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, organometallic chemistry, catalytic chemistry, polymer science, and functional materials science, it aims to open an unprecedented interdisciplinary field through their "organic" connections.
*Illustrative imageReactions Linked by Boron and Silicon
Intramolecular reactions, carried out by tethering two reaction sites together, are efficient and make selectivity easier to control. By using removable boryl and silyl groups in the tether, the lab has turned them into broadly applicable synthetic strategies.
*Illustrative imageHelical Polymers as Functional Materials
The lab synthesizes polyquinoxaline, a chiral helical polymer, and studies how to modify it for use as a chiral functional material.
*Illustrative imageCreating Polymers with New Backbones
Aiming for polymer materials with functions of a different order from existing ones, the lab searches for entirely new main-chain skeletons and works to realize methods for synthesizing them.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Organic Design Lab consist of faculty, doctoral students, master's students, and fourth-year undergraduates.As of 2026
- ProfessorMichinori Suginome
- Associate ProfessorLINTULUOTO Juha
- LecturerTakeshi Yamamoto
- Assistant ProfessorYukako Yoshinaga
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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: “1-Undecanol molecular model” RandomKatze / CC0 (cropped)
- Reactions Linked by Boron and Silicon: “Silicon tethering 2” Alsbaiee / Public domain (cropped)
- Helical Polymers as Functional Materials: “Polihelicenos” Mephisto spa / Public domain (cropped)
- Creating Polymers with New Backbones: “Dendrimer 81 allyl” Jaruar26 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Transition Metal Complex Chemistry Lab): “- grapes on the vine - 3 strands dangling side by side - (HiRes focus stack)” Franz van Duns / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Functional Polymer Synthesis Lab): “Rotaxane Crystal Structure ChemComm page493 2001 commons” M stone at English Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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