Advanced Elements Chemistry Research Team
Team Leader
Masanobu UCHIYAMA (D.Phar.)
Our team focuses on advanced elements chemistry based on the development and synthesis of novel organic ligands and functional metal complexes. Our main research aims include 1) development of innovative synthetic processes, 2) applications of organic-metallic hybrid chemistry to materials science, and 3) evaluation of the biological activities of organic-metallic hybrid complexes (bioorganometallics). We are conducting fundamental and applied research in these areas not only by means of experimental approaches based on synthetic organic chemistry and spectroscopy, but also from a theoretical viewpoint based on computational chemistry.
- Development of advanced molecular transformation methods supporting materials science and life sciences (reaction chemistry/synthetic chemistry)
- Periodic table-traversing chemistry that transcends the frameworks of organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and metallic chemistry (elements chemistry)
- Design and production of materials, using a foundation of synthetic chemistry, spectroscopy, and computational chemistry (materials science/life sciences)
- Muranaka, A., Ohira, S., Hashizume, D., Koshino, H., Kyotani, F., Hirayama, M., and Uchiyama, M.:
"[18]/[20]pi Hemiporphyrazine: A Redox Switchable Near-Infrared Dye"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 190-193 (2012). - Matsushita, O., Derkacheva,V. M., Muranaka, A., Shimizu, S., Uchiyama, M., Lukyanets, E. A. and Kobayashi, N.:
"Rectangular-Shaped Expanded Phthalocyanines with Two Central Metal Atoms"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 3411-3418 (2012). - Yoshida, K., Furuyama, T., Wang, C., Muranaka, A., Hashizume, D., Yasuike, S., and Uchiyama, M.:
"Aluminepin: A Family of Neutral Aluminium Analogues of the Tropylium Cation"
J. Org. Chem., 77, 729-732 (2012). - Ribierre, J. C., Watanabe, S., Matsumoto, M., Muto, T., Hashizume, D., and Aoyama, T.:
"Thickness Dependence of the Ambipolar Charge Transport Properties in Organic Field-Effect Transistors based on a Quinoidal Oligothiophene Derivative."
J. Phys. Chem. C, 115, 20703-20709 (2011). - Tanaka, T., Matsumoto, S., Kobayashi, T., Satoh, M., and Aoyama, T.:
"Highly Oriented J-Aggregates of Bisazomethine Dye on Aligned Poly(tetrafluoroethylene) Surfaces."
J. Phys. Chem. C, 115, 19598-19605 (2011). - Muranaka, A., Yonehara, M., and Uchiyama, M.:
"Azulenocyanine: A New Family of Phthalocyanines with Intense Near-IR Absorption."
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 7844-7845 (2010). - Sada, M., Komagawa, S., Uchiyama, M., Kobata, M., Mizuno, T., Utimoto, K., Oshima, K., and Matsubara, S.:
"Reaction Pathway of Methylenation of Carbonyl Compounds with Bis(iodozincio)methane"
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 17452-17458 (2010). - Ribierre, J. C., Fujihara, T., Watanabe, S., Matsumoto, M., Muto, T., Nakao, A., and Aoyama, T.:
"Direct Laser Writing of Complementary Logic Gates and Lateral p-n Diodes in a Solution-Processible Monolithic Organic Semiconductor."
Adv. Mater., 22, 1722-1726 (2010). - Naka, H., Morey, J. V., Haywood, J., Eisler, D. J., McPartlin, M., Garcia, F., Kudo, H., Kondo, Y., Uchiyama, M., and Wheatley, A. E. H.:
"A Mixed Alkyl-amido Aluminate as a Kinetically Controlled Base."
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 16193-16200 (2008). - Uchiyama, M., Kobayashi, Y., Furuyama, T., Nakamura, S., Kajihara, Y., Miyoshi, T., Sakamoto, T., Kondo, Y., and Morokuma, K.:
"Generation and Suppression of 3-/4-Functionalized Benzynes Using Zinc Ate Base (TMP-Zn-ate): New Approaches to Multi-substituted Benzenes.""
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 472-480 (2008).
Principal Investigator
- Masanobu UCHIYAMA
- Team Leader
Staff Scientist
- Atsuya MURANAKA
- Deputy Team Leader
- Tetsuya AOYAMA
- Senior Research Scientist
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Chao WANG
- Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher
- Xuan WANG
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Koichiro MIKAMI
- Postdoctoral Researcher
Technical Assistant
- Kengo YOSHIDA
- Technical Staff I