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Organic Materials Chemistry Lab
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A lab that draws out new reactivity of organic molecules through the power of catalysis.
AboutAbout the lab
Drawing out new reactivity through the power of catalysis.
The Organic Materials Chemistry Lab studies the development of methods for making new organic compounds by drawing out new reactivity of organic molecules through catalysis.
The lab works on developing methods to synthesize familiar organic compounds, such as pharmaceuticals, plastics, and optoelectronic materials, freely and precisely at the molecular level.
The lab's research rests on two pillars: developing new selective organic synthesis reactions, and creating new organic compounds and exploring their functions.
On the lab's website, the lab is introduced under the name "Shintani Lab".
Key terms
- Catalyst
- A substance that promotes a chemical reaction. This lab uses metals such as nickel and palladium.
- Radical
- A highly reactive species. It is used to transform a wide variety of organic molecules.
- Photoredox catalysis
- A catalytic reaction that uses visible light as the driving force to generate radicals under mild conditions.
- Stitching polymerization
- A polymerization that uses the "stitching reaction," which was developed based on the insertion of a carbon–carbon unsaturated bond into an organorhodium species.
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Chemistry An Asian Journal Oral Presentation Award at the Symposium on Heterocyclic Chemistry
A doctoral student received the BCSJ Award at the Symposium on Heterocyclic Chemistry
A paper from the lab was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc.
A doctoral student won a Poster Award at the Summer School of the Young Organometallic Chemists' Group
A paper by a master's student was accepted by Chem. Commun.
ResearchResearch themes
Organic compounds are used in pharmaceuticals, fiber materials, plastic products, optoelectronic materials, and more, and the lab considers it important to develop methods to synthesize organic compounds with desired functions and properties freely and precisely at the molecular level. Centered on "drawing out new reactivity of organic molecules through the power of catalysis," the lab works on developing new selective organic synthesis reactions and on creating new organic compounds and exploring their functions.
*Illustrative imageActivating inert bonds through catalytic metal migration
Inert bonds that are far from the reaction site and are usually hard to use for transformation are activated through a process in which the catalytic metal moves within the molecule. Using nickel and palladium catalysts, the lab is developing new methods to synthesize silicon-containing organic compounds.
*Illustrative imageStereoselective synthesis using silicon nucleophiles
The lab develops methods to stereoselectively build complex organosilicon compounds while introducing silicon as a nucleophile into organic molecules with unsaturated bonds. In one example, a copper catalyst was used to synthesize tetrasubstituted alkenes containing silicon and boron.
Molecular transformations through precise radical design
The lab develops molecular transformations with highly controlled reactivity and selectivity by precisely tuning the electronic and steric properties of radicals. Using photoredox catalysis, it has succeeded in selectively abstracting a hydrogen atom from an inert carbon–hydrogen bond to form a carbon–carbon bond.
*Illustrative imagePolymer synthesis through a new chain-growth polymerization
The lab works on creating new polymer compounds through a new type of catalytic polymerization. Using its original "stitching polymerization," it efficiently synthesizes new π-conjugated polymers that cannot be made by conventional methods, and evaluates their physical properties.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Shintani Lab consist of faculty, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorRyo Shintani
- Assistant ProfessorIkuya Fujii
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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: “Laboratory Glasswares” Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Activating inert bonds through catalytic metal migration: “Nickel Nitrate” Eugene.negrobov / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Stereoselective synthesis using silicon nucleophiles: “NaSilox” Smokefoot / Public domain (cropped)
- Polymer synthesis through a new chain-growth polymerization: “Polymer chain SPT” SPT Paul Topham / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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