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Precision Synthetic Chemistry Lab
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A lab developing new methods to synthesize useful molecules from readily available starting materials.
AboutAbout the lab
Opening up new synthetic methods through fundamental research on making molecules.
The Precision Synthetic Chemistry Lab (called the "Minakata Lab" on its website) aims to develop new methods for synthesizing useful molecules from readily available starting materials.
It emphasizes methodologies that are efficient, selective, and green.
The target molecules include building blocks useful in organic synthesis, fullerene derivatives aimed at functional materials, and skeletons that can lead to natural products.
To open up new reaction environments for organic synthesis, the lab aims to encapsulate organic substances in inorganic porous materials and discover new reactions through their chemical transformation.
Key terms
- Heterocycle
- A cyclic compound that contains atoms other than carbon (such as nitrogen) as part of its ring.
- Fullerene
- A cage-shaped molecule made only of carbon atoms. C60 is the best-known example.
- Building block
- An organic molecule used as a component for assembling more complex molecules.
- Solvophobic interaction
- The force by which molecules that do not mix well with a solvent tend to move away from the solvent and gather together.
NewsLab news
Assistant Professor Kiyokawa receives the Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (Singapore)
A student receives a Student Presentation Award at the 105th Annual Meeting (Spring) of the Chemical Society of Japan
A student receives the BCSJ Award for Oral Presentation at the 58th Young Researchers' Meeting on Organic Reactions
A student receives the GSC Poster Award at the 13th JACI/GSC Symposium
A student receives an Outstanding Poster Award at the 123rd Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab works on developing new methods for constructing heterocycles and on synthesizing functional heterocycles. The results listed on the research page date up to around 2010.
*Illustrative imageSimple synthesis of heterocycles
Simple heterocycles can be constructed by using carbon–carbon double bonds (including those of fullerenes) as the carbon source and taking advantage of nitrogen–halogen bonds.
*Illustrative imageEncapsulating organic substances in porous materials
This theme is the development of a new method for incorporating organic substances into inorganic porous materials. By exploiting solvophobic interactions, the lab has found that fullerene C60 can be encapsulated in silica with regular pore sizes (MCM-41).
MembersFaculty
The members of the Minakata Lab consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and administrative assistants.
- ProfessorSatoshi Minakata
- Associate ProfessorYohei Takeda
- Assistant ProfessorKensuke Kiyokawa
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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: “Fullerene-C70-3D-balls” Jynto (talk) / CC0 (cropped)
- Simple synthesis of heterocycles: “Synthesis of phenanthridines with isocyanobiphenyls” Mephisto spa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Encapsulating organic substances in porous materials: “MCM-48 Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles (1)” Monique Tso / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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