Chemical Process Engineering Team
Team Leader
Yasuhiro UOZUMI (D.Pharm.)
Development of a safe, green, simple, easy, and prompt chemical process producing a desired compound with high efficiency and selectivity is an important goal in synthetic organic chemistry of next generation. To accomplish the goal, 'Green Nanocatalysis Research Team' explores novel catalytic systems operating synergistically. Thus, this team targets eagerly awaited yet immature (1) catalytic molecular transformations in water under heterogeneous conditions, (2) versatile and environmentally benign catalytic reactions, (3) instantaneous catalytic molecular transforming systems, through, in addition to minute structural design of molecular catalysts, synergistic reaction driving/controlling with cooperation of the catalysts with reaction media and/or reaction equipments.
- Construction of new catalytic reaction fields via molecular self-assembly
- Instantaneous organic transformations with microchannel reactors
- Development of nanometal aquacatalysts
- Yamada, Y. M. A., Watatabe, T., Torii, K., and Uozumi, Y.:
"Catalytic membrane-installed microchannel reactors for one-second allylic arylation."
Chem. Commun. 5594-5596 (2009). - Yamada, Y. M. A., Arakawa, T., Hoche, H., and Uozumi, Y.:
"An Amphiphilic Resin-dispersion of Nanoparticles of Platinum (ARP-Pt): A Highly Active and Recyclable Catalyst for the Aerobic Oxidation of a Variety of Alcohols in Water."
Chem. Asian. J. 4, 1092-1098 (2009). - Uozumi, Y, Matsu-ura Y., Arakawa, T., and Yamada, Y. M. A.:
"Aquacatalytic Asymmetric Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling with an Amphiphilic Resin-Supported Chiral Palladium Complex."
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48, 2708-2710 (2009). - Yamada, Y. M. A., Watatabe, T., Torii, K., and Uozumi, Y.:
"Oxidative Cyclization of Alkenols with Oxone Using a Miniflow Reactor."
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 5,. 18, 1-5 (2009) - Uozumi, Y., and Yamada, Y. M. A.:
"Development of an Amphiphilic Resin-Dispersion of Nano-Palladium and Nano-Platinum Catalysts: Design, Preparation, and Their Use in Green Organic Transformations."
Chem. Rec. 9, 51-65 (2009) - Uozumi, Y.:
"Heterogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis in Water with Amphiphilic Polymer-Supported Homochiral Palladium Complexes."
Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 81, 1183-1195 (2008) - Yamada, Y. M. A., Guo, H., and Uozumi, Y.:
"Development of Tightly Convoluted Polymeric Phosphotungstate Catalysts and Their Application to an Oxidative Cyzlization of Alkenols and Alkenoic Acids."
Heterocycles 76, 645-655 (2008) (Prof. Ryoji Noyori's Special Issue).