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Organometallic Chemistry Lab
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The lab designs ligands and explores synthetic methods for metal complexes and organofluorine compounds.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring new synthetic methods starting from the ligands that support metals
The Organometallic Chemistry Lab studies the synthesis and applications of transition metal complexes.
The lab designs ligands, the organic compounds that support metals, based on the intrinsic properties of elements, aiming to synthesize transition metal complexes with desired functions.
Using transition metal complexes as key active species, the lab also works on developing new methods for synthesizing useful fluorine-containing organic compounds.
Its research themes also include creating boron catalysts that contain boron, a metalloid, and developing technologies that make use of crude hydrogen.
Key terms
- Ligand
- An organic compound that supports a metal. Its design is important for giving a metal complex the desired function.
- Transition metal complex
- A compound in which ligands are bound to a transition metal. It mediates a variety of reactions that synthesize biologically active compounds and functional materials.
- Fluorine-containing organic compound
- An organic compound that contains fluorine. It is used in a wide range of fields, including pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and functional materials.
NewsLab news
A master's student won a Poster Award at the 14th CSJ Chemistry Festa
A master's student won a Poster Award at the 51st Symposium on Organic Main-Group Element Chemistry
A doctoral student won a Poster Award at the 70th Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry
A master's student received the Osaka University Engineering Association Award for FY2023
ResearchResearch themes
The Organometallic Chemistry Lab aims to produce useful fluorine-containing organic compounds by new methods, using transition metal complexes as key active species. In addition to ligand design, the lab works on creating boron catalysts and developing technologies that make use of crude hydrogen.
*Illustrative imageNew synthetic methods for organofluorine compounds
Building on the derivatization of industrially available perfluorinated compounds, the lab aims to develop methods for freely producing fluorine-containing organic compounds. With an approach that modifies tetrafluoroethylene itself, it is becoming possible to design and synthesize monomer molecules for new fluorinated polymers.
*Illustrative imageLigand design and boron catalysts
The lab designs ligands based on the intrinsic properties of elements, and synthesizes and applies transition metal complexes that make use of their electronic properties and responses to external stimuli. It also works on creating boron catalysts that contain boron, a metalloid, and on developing technologies that make use of crude hydrogen.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Organometallic Chemistry Lab consist of faculty, emeritus professors, secretaries, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and internship students.As of 2025
- ProfessorMasato Ohashi
- Associate ProfessorYoichi Hoshimoto
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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: “(benzene)chromium-tricarbonyl-from-xtal-1987-3D-balls” Ben Mills / Public domain (cropped)
- New synthetic methods for organofluorine compounds: “Tetrafluoroethylene-3D-vdW” Benjah-bmm27 / Public domain (cropped)
- Ligand design and boron catalysts: “Boron phosphate” 范皓程 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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