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Molecular Design Chemistry Lab
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The lab designs metal complex catalysts and explores new reactions for organic synthesis.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how to break and form bonds at metal centers
Through fundamental research in organometallic chemistry and coordination chemistry, the Molecular Design Chemistry Lab explores new ways of breaking and forming bonds at metal centers.
By discovering new reactions and applying them to catalytic reactions, the lab aims to open new directions in organic synthetic chemistry.
The lab also investigates the properties of the metal complexes that serve as catalysts and the processes by which reactions proceed, and combines theoretical chemical calculations with experiments to establish guidelines for catalyst design.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Tsurugi Lab."
Key terms
- Metal complex
- A compound formed when molecules or ions (ligands) bind to a metal atom or ion.
- Catalyst
- A substance that makes a chemical reaction proceed more easily without itself being changed.
- Functional group transformation
- A reaction that converts a functional group, the part of a molecule that serves as the starting point of a reaction, into a different kind of group.
- Metal cluster
- An aggregate in which multiple metal atoms are gathered and bonded together.
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Poster Award at the 76th Symposium on Coordination Chemistry of Japan
A master's student received the Poster Award at the 72nd Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, Japan
A master's student received the Poster Award at the Summer School of the Young Researchers' Association of Organometallic Chemistry
A paper from joint research with the Nakanishi Lab (Graduate School of Engineering Science) has been accepted
A paper on the reduction of aromatic compounds using Sm compounds has been accepted
ResearchResearch themes
Based on organometallic chemistry, coordination chemistry, and metal cluster chemistry, the lab works on developing excellent complex catalysts to advance organic synthesis reactions. It investigates the properties of new metal complexes and the processes by which chemical bonds are broken and formed, and aims to establish guidelines for catalyst design by combining theoretical chemical calculations with experiments.
*Illustrative imageComplex catalysts of early transition metals and others
The lab develops functional group transformation reactions, which convert functional groups in molecules into other forms, using organometallic complexes of early transition metals and rare earth metals as catalysts.
*Illustrative imageFunctional group transformation with light-responsive complexes
The lab develops functional group transformation reactions that take advantage of the property of metal complexes to respond to light (photoresponsiveness).
*Illustrative imageMain-group reagents that generate complex catalyst species
The lab develops main-group element reagents used to generate highly reactive catalyst species of complexes.
*Illustrative imageComplexes as models of solid catalysts
The lab develops metal cluster complexes containing multiple metals that serve as molecular models of the active sites, where reactions take place, of solid catalysts.
MembersFaculty
The Tsurugi Lab consists of faculty, project researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, visiting researchers, short-term international students, and a lab secretary.As of 2026
- ProfessorHayato Tsurugi
- Assistant ProfessorYuya Kakiuchi
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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: “Schrenk tube” Iodomethane / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Complex catalysts of early transition metals and others: “Transition metal carbynes” Albris / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Functional group transformation with light-responsive complexes: “Photoreactor Sun Tracking LERF Timisoara RO 2” Mihai-Cosmin Pascariu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Main-group reagents that generate complex catalyst species: “Vaccuum line IMG 20230205” Jonathansammy / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Complexes as models of solid catalysts: “Wilkinson's-catalyst-3D-sticks” Benjah-bmm27 / Public domain (cropped)
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