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Synthetic Organic Chemistry Lab
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A synthetic organic chemistry lab that aims to innovate molecular construction with new catalysts and new reactions.
AboutAbout the lab
Organic synthesis that creates something from zero to one.
The Synthetic Organic Chemistry Lab studies organic synthesis along two lines: creating new molecular catalysts and reactive species, and developing new molecular transformations.
Using original designs, the lab produces multinuclear metal catalysts, in which multiple metals are linked by metal–metal bonds, and highly reactive species generated from main-group organic elements and light energy.
Each student has an independent research theme.
On the lab's website, the lab is introduced under the name "Takaya Lab".
Key terms
- Multinuclear metal catalyst
- A catalyst in which multiple metal atoms are linked by metal–metal bonds. The metals work cooperatively.
- Reactive species
- A highly reactive molecular state that forms during a reaction and drives the reaction forward.
- FLP
- A compound containing both Lewis-basic phosphorus and Lewis-acidic boron. In some cases, light generates a highly reactive species from it.
NewsLab news
A master's student won a Poster Award at the 72nd Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry
A master's student won a Poster Award at the 58th Summer School of the Young Organometallic Chemists' Group
A doctoral student received a Student Presentation Award at the 106th Spring Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan
A paper on a bond-cleavage reaction using light and rhodium was published in ChemistrySelect
ResearchResearch themes
Synthetic organic chemistry is the discipline of freely synthesizing the diverse organic compounds that support daily life, such as pharmaceuticals and materials. In this lab, researchers create transition-metal catalysts and reactive species with unprecedented, superior functions on their own, and work on developing innovative molecular transformations.
*Illustrative imageCatalysts using metal–metal bonds
Using an original template ligand, the lab precisely synthesizes heterobimetallic dinuclear complexes with a metal–metal bond, making it possible to build families of catalysts with various metal combinations. Through cooperation between the two metals, the lab aims for reactions and ultra-high-activity catalysts that mononuclear metal catalysts could not achieve.
*Illustrative imageNew reactive species from main-group elements and light
The lab combines organic main-group elements or main-group metal elements with light energy to generate highly reactive species, aiming to convert inert bonds without relying on rare transition metals. For example, it studied the photoreaction of a compound containing both phosphorus and boron (FLP) and developed a molecular system that reversibly captures and releases ethylene with light and heat.
Merging photoreactions and metal catalysis
The lab combines light energy with transition-metal catalysts or organic main-group reagents to develop transformations of inert bonds and inert molecules that are useful for synthesis. For example, it discovered a new reaction in which irradiating pyridine and a silylborane with light gives a five-membered-ring pyrrolidine derivative.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Synthetic Organic Chemistry Lab consist of faculty, administrative assistants, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and short-term international students.As of 2026
- ProfessorJun Takaya
- Assistant ProfessorYuto Morita
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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: “La fulminaterie” Patrimoinesurvillois / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Catalysts using metal–metal bonds: “Manganese-Chromium Quintuple Bond Crystal Structure” Aherthabey / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- New reactive species from main-group elements and light: “Visible Light Photochemistry Setup” Joanna Yang / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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