Laboratories at the School / Graduate School of Engineering

Molecular Design Chemistry Area

Our research is targeting toward designing unique and original metal complexes as catalysts for new organic transformations and clarifying their roles during the catalytic reactions. We especially focus on the development of transition metal complexes that can utilize readily available starting materials for complicated molecular synthesis with short reaction sequences and transform a targeted functional group within multi-functionalized organic molecules by using thermal, light, and electric energy. We also work on the catalyst development by combining both experimental and computational methods to optimize catalyst structures and elucidate the reaction mechanism.