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May 2016
Issue #17

CONTENTSMEXT Project of Integrated Researchon Chemical Synthesis 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The 19 Joint Seminar,
Core-to-Core Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4Integrative Graduate Education and Research
Program in Green Natural Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Research Topic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6thVisiting Professor 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Report from the Chemical Instrumentation
Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
RCMS Seminars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Awards List 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Visits to Chemistry Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
This Year’s Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Staff List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
This newsletter is also available in PDF format from the RCMS homepage (ihttp://www.rcms.nagoya-u.ac.jp/).

RCMS NEWSMEXT Project of Integrated Researchon Chemical Synthesis 2015
In 2015, MEXT Project of Integrated Research on Chemical Synthesis, a pioneering synthesis of a new scientific base andnurturing the next generation of researchers (Hokkaido University Catalysis Research Center, Nagoya University ResearchCenter for Materials Science, Kyoto University International Research Center for Elements Science Institute for Chemical
Research, Kyushu University Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering) held the symposium below.

The 6th Symposium on MEXT Project of Integrated Researchon Chemical Synthesis(Nagoya University, April 14, 2015)

PosterGroup photo with the guests

Prof. Takahashi

Invited lecture, Prof. Kawasaki

Assoc. Prof. Yamauchi

Designated Prof. Tatsumi

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The 6th Young Researchers Forum(Kyusyu, July 3, 2015)

Group photo

The 5th International Conference on MEXT Project of Integrated Research on Chemical Synthesis(Nagoya University, January 29–30, 2016)

Discussion
Poster session

Opening, Prof. Awaga

Prof. DeBeer

Prof. Ruben

Group photo
Lunch time3

RCMS NEWS

Core-to-Core Program
The 19th Joint Seminars
The “Elements Function for Transformative Catalysis and Materials”, Core-to-Core program (2014 to 2018), has
succeeded in sending young researchers to sites performing international joint research through cooperation
with the University of Munster (Germany), the Berlin University of Technology (Germany), and Queen’s University(Canada). Further growth has been realized through the deployment of doctoral students and young researchers
through the “Japanese-German Graduate Externship” (2005 to 2011) and “The Strategic Young Researcher Overseas
Visit Program for Accelerating Brain Circulation” (2011 to 2013), results-producing projects in which the centerand the Department of Chemistry at the Graduate School of Science have fulfilled a central role. The Core-to-Core
Program has enabled the deployment of master’s students, and outstanding young researchers expected to perform
globally in the future can now be refined through participation in international joint research performed overseas
at an early stage.

The 19th Core- to-Core Joint Seminar
October 5–6, 2015, University of Münster, Germany

Prof. Yamaguchi

Group photo

Prof. Saito

Prof. Erker

Seminar room

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Coffee breakIntegrative Graduate Education and Research Programin Green Natural Sciences (IGER)
Integrative Graduate Education and Research (IGER) Program in Green Natural Sciences was launched in 2011,and built on three pillars: (I) practicing cutting-edge fundamental natural science research, (II) completion of sufficient coursework to enable that research, and (III) graduate school literacy education (English training, studying
abroad, skill seminars, etc.). Based on these, the program aims to nurture the “scientific ability and social skills to view
situations from a broad perspective,”“developmental ability to extract practical results from fundamental research,”and “active international citizenship on a global scale,” along with fostering “corporate researchers cultivated as seeds
in industry,” “academic researchers raised in the scholarly domain,” and “environmental coordinators and mentors
active throughout global society” that will carry the environmental fields of the next generation.
[Environment of friendly competition] Since the number of students participating in this program is unlimited,the competition level is high. This creates an environment in which students who study different fields, and are indifferent academic years, can cooperate but also compete, during courses developed in collaboration with eight
departments of the Graduate Schools of Science, Engineering and Bioagricultural Sciences, as well as various
seminars coordinated by each school in the university, English training, and leadership training in North Carolina,
USA. By presenting their academic achievements and research
results, students can be stimulated and create a good network forexchange. Furthermore, this can benefit the students’ career path.
Through this strategy, excellent human resources can be expected
to develop.
[Seminars organized by graduate students] We provide opportunities to work out educational plans drawn up by students.
Students have to carry out their plans by themselves, for instance,some groups of students have implemented a tutorial seminar toopen up a new research field, a workshop to develop interdisciplinary fields, and a symposium to think about the challenges andfuture directions for various world issues as scientists. Throughthe implementations of their plans, students can acquire a rangeof practical and theoretical skills particularly in leadership, teambuilding, negotiation, and problem-solving.
In 2015, over 250 graduate students enrolled in this programfrom graduate school of Science, Engineering and Agricultural
Sciences. The program provided opportunity for 78 students toparticipate in international conferences held at outside Japan,
and also provided opportunity of mid-term (2–3 months) foreign
residency research for 17 students.
Ten students participated in the Leadership Program at North
Carolina, US. All students not only attended lectures regarding
Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer but also
visited many laboratories in universities at North Carolina to build
networks with PIs, postdocs and graduate students. In addition, allof them had opportunities to do presentations on their research tothese researchers and have discussions. Furthermore, they visited
some companies to learn some ideas of working in industry as a
researcher and business environment in the USA from entrepreneurs and researchers.

Seminar organized by students

Poster awards ceremony

Leadership Program at North Carolina

5RCMS NEWSResearch Topic(Organic Synthesis)

Phosphorus-Containing Fluorophores for Bioimaging
A number of fascinating fluorescent molecules
have been developed for application in bioimaging,which is nowadays an indispensable tool for biologicalresearches. Crucial requisites for fluorescent molecules
to this end are 1) to precisely control emission wavelengths, 2) gain a high molecular absorptivity, 3) achieve
high quantum yields, 4) improve photostability, and
5) impart a switching mechanism of the emission
wavelength or intensity. Among these, of particularimportance is to gain high photostability, which is
crucial for the application in STED (stimulated emission
depletion) microscopy, one of the super-resolution
microscopies. While this technique enables high spacial
resolution beyond the optical limits, the intense laser
beams required for both excitation and STED usually
provoke rapid photobleaching of fluorescent probes,
which significantly limits the performance and practicalutility of the STED microscopy. Our approach to thisissue is to introduce an electron-withdrawing P=Ogroup to p-conjugated skeletons, which enables us to
produce new fluorophores with red-shifted emissions
as well as high photostability.1-3 We herein developed
a super-photoresistant fluorescent dye C-Naphox as apractical tool for STED imaging.
Phosphole P-oxide is a useful building unit for
p-conjugated materials because of its nonaromaticand electron-accepting character. We have developed
a new environment polarity-sensitive fluorescent probe(Ph-Bphox) by the combination of a benzophosphole
P-oxide skeleton with an electron-donating triphenylamine moiety.2 This compound showed high ability toselectively stain lipid droplets in adipocytes. Using theskeleton of Bphox, we have also developed a sodium ion
sensing fluorescent probe NAGY (CC, 2015). Moreover,throughout the structural screening of the Bphox skeleton, we have elucidated the substituent effects on the
fluorescent properties of Bphox derivatives (BCSJ, 2016,selected paper) and finally achieved the development ofhighly photostable fluorescent compounds, C-Bphox
and C-Naphox.3 These compounds did not show any
photodegradation under the Xe lump irradiation
conditions, although the representative dyes, such as
ATTO 488 and Alexa fluor 488, underwent the significant

6photodegradation under thesame irradiation conditions.
We have also succeeded indemonstrating a practical utility of C-Naphox for the STED
imaging (Figure 1). The highphotoresistance of C-Naphox
allowed repeated STED imaging
of HeLa cells. Even after recording 50 STED images, 83% of the initial fluorescenceintensity persisted. Further chemical modification to
impart water solubility as well as to introduce antibody
labels are currently in progress in our laboratory.

Figure 1. (a) Chemical structures of C-Bphox and C-Naphox, (b) repeated
STED images of the fixed HeLa cells with C-Naphox, and (c)normalized intracellular fluorescence intensity plots as afunction of the number of recorded STED images.

References[1] A. Fukazawa, S. Suda, M. Taki, E. Yamaguchi, M.
­Grzybowski, Y. Sato, T. Higashiyama, S. Yamaguchi,
Chem. Commun., 52, 1120–1123 (2016).
[2] E. Yamaguchi, C. Wang, A. Fukazawa, M. Taki, Y. Sato,T. Sasaki, M. Ueda, N. Sasaki, T. Higashiyama, S. Yamaguchi, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 4539–4543 (2015).
[3] C. Wang, A. Fukazawa, M. Taki, Y. Sato, T. Higashiyama,
S. Yamaguchi, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 15213–15217(2015).
(Shigehiro Yamaguchi)

Research Topic(Inorganic Synthesis)

Re-Analyzing Inorganic Reactions in Solution
on the basis of Quantum Mechanics
Studies on (1) solvent exchange/ligand substitution
reactions and (2) simple electron transfer reactions had
been the central field of solution chemistry for decades,
and it seemed only complicated reaction systems had beenleft untouched by the end of 1980’s. However, credibility of
the results for (1), namely the credibility of the categorization of reaction mechanisms to Dissociative, Interchange (Iaand Id), and Associative mechanisms, largely depended on
the observed activation entropies and activation volumes
both of which are sensitive to many factors such as solvation and de-solvation of chemical species. As a result, theobserved activation entropies and activation volumes
were almost identical for solvent exchange reactions of ametal ion in various solvents although solvent propertiesof each solvent are largely different. Therefore, it is certainthat we have to re-analyze the results by using reliablephysical principles, before concluding this research field.
Results for such attempts are given in The Review of High
Pressure Science and Technology, 8 (3), 193–208 (1998) and

Figure 1. Photo-electron transfer reactions between
ZnTPP – Co(sep)3+/2+ in various ionic liquids.

Figure 2. Electron self-exchange reaction for the [Cu(3-(2-pyridyl)-5,6diphenyl-1,2,4-triazine)2]2+/+ couple. The reaction involves flipping of
coordinated triazine ring during the electron transfer process. H­ owever,the reaction is not Gated but concerted.

Inorganic Chemistry on the Basis of
Quantum Theory (Hideo D. Takagi,
Nagoya Univ. Press, 2010), in which
ligand exchange reactions werere-evaluated on the basis of thefirst- and second-order Jahn-Teller
theory and the calculated ligandfield activation energies for eachelectronic configurations using
effective nuclear charges.
As for the electron transfer reactions, most ofexperimental results were analyzed on the basis of theclassical/ or semi-classical Marcus Theory, and suchanalyses were reliable because of the credibility of thisphysical theory. However, there is a factor overlookedby many researchers of this field: the adiabaticity ofreactions. Many chemists believe that most electrontransfer reactions are adiabatic as it has been known thatreactions with transmission coefficient between 10–3 and1 may be considered adiabatic. However, it seems somereactions may not be adiabatic as (1) the distance between
reactants are large and/or (2) the energy gap between thedonor and acceptor orbitals is large. We investigated somecopper (II)/(I) reaction systems and found that adiabaticity
of electron transfer reactions varies with varying counter
reagents: reactions are adiabatic and Marcusian for all selfexchange reactions and cross reactions with other copper
complexes as counter reagents, while cross reactions with
non-copper metal complexes as counter reagents are essentially non-adiabatic and controlled by the inner-spherestructural changes to induce either sequential transfer orsuper-exchange (Inorg. Chem., 1999, 38, 3352; Chem. Phys.
Lett.,1999, 306, 291; Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2001, 324, 252; Chem.
Phys. Lett., 2001, 344, 441; Inorg. Chem., 2007, 46, 1419;
Dalton Trans, 44, 13979–13990 (2015)).
Relationship between solvent properties and reaction
mechanisms is another important subject investigated inthis research group. Thermal Z/E isomerization reactions ofvarious azobenzenes in many solvents including various
ionic liquids and supercritical carbon dioxide have been
investigated (Chem. Lett., 1159–1160 (1998); J. Phys. Chem.
A, 103, 11250–11251 (1999); Chem. A European Journal,
2006, 12, 5328–8333). Currently, we are investigating
solvent reorganization processes that accompany theredox process between photo-induced Zn-TPP and[Co(sepulchrate)3+] and the back electron transfer reaction
between the p-cation radical and [Co(sepulchrate)2+] invarious ionic liquids.
(Hideo TAKAGI)7

RCMS NEWSResearch Topic(Functional Materials)

Discovery of Novel Electrochemical Mechanism in a
Metal-Organic Framework based Li-ion Battery
The Li-ion batteries are widely considered as apromising energy storage and power supplying devices
for the portable electronics and electrical vehicles. To
improve the performance of these batteries, such as
storage density and output rate, material scientists
are always motivated to develop novel electrodematerials. With previous studies, our group has successfully illustrated the potential of molecular materials,
including polynuclear metal clusters and metal-organic
frameworks (MOFs). Although intriguing electrochemical characteristics have been observed for them, theirinsulating nature have significantly hindered a broad
application of these molecular materials.
Since the preparation of conductive molecularmaterials is very challenging, the low conductive issue ofmolecular materials can’t be simply solved by increasing
their conductivity with proper design strategy. Nevertheless, we discovered a novel electrochemical scheme,
namely “bipolar charging mechanism” with a lately ob-

Figure 1. The scheme of bipolar charging mechanism.

Figure 2. The cyclic performance of MOF-based battery.

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tained redox active MOF, Mn7(2,7-AQDC)6(2,6-AQDC)(DMA)6(AQDC = anthraquinone dicarboxylates, DMA = N, N-dimethyl­acetamide) as the cathode material of a Li-ion battery. Since thevalence of manganese is Mn(II),they are oxidized to Mn(III)during the charge operation,
and PF6– anions from the electrolyte are adsorbed tobalance the charge of the framework. On the other hand,in the discharge step, the anions are firstly released
and followed by the reduction of anthraquinones andthe insertion of Li-ions. In other words, the electron
storage process involves the movement of two type ofions from the electrolyte. With the contribution of two
steps, this MOF exhibited a high capacity of 205 mAh/g
and a stable cyclic performance that the capacity dropis less than 10% within 50 cycles. This newly discovered
mechanism is the first mechanism that involves theinsertion of two ion species, and significantly reduced
the ionic traffic, and improved the efficiency of batteries.
References[1] Z. Zhang, H. Yoshikawa, K. Awaga, J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
136, 16112 (2014).
[2] Z. Zhang, H. Yoshikawa, K. Awaga, Chem. Mater., 28,
1298 (2016).
(Zhongyue ZHANG)

Research Topic(Biomaterials Research)

Translation with circular mRNA
Proteins possess divergent structures and functions
and play the important roles in cells. This indicatesthat structural and functional analyses and productionof proteins contribute to not only understanding oflife phenomena but also the drug discoveries andindustrial application. In addition, it is considered that
artificial protein can be engineered by modification of
the amino-acid sequence because the function andstructure of protein depend on its amino-acid sequence.

Figure 1. Translation with circular mRNA

The synthesis and engineeringof protein will promote the industrial application of protein.
Because of this, the artificial
production of protein is oneof the most crucial research
for analyses and application ofproteins. Conventionally, thetarget protein has been produced artificially in simple organism, such as Escherichia
coli, yeast, and silkworm. Recently, the protein can beproduced without living cell (Cell-free expression system). However, protein expression efficiency in cell-free
expression system is less than it in conventional method.
To improve the protein expression in cell-free expression system, we focused on the late-limiting step oftranslation, the association and dissociation of ribosome
and mRNA. To reduce the contribution of this step inprotein synthesis, we have developed the rolling-cycletranslation system (Figure 1). mRNA without stop codon
was circularized by using enzymatic reaction and translated in cell-free expression system. As shown in Figure
2, the translation with circular mRNA produced higher
amount of protein than that seen with linear mRNA. This
result indicates that ribosome repeated the translationin the circular mRNA. In addition, we confirmed that it
is possible to express protein by circular mRNA in theliving eukaryote cell.
Furthermore, our group utilizes the biochemical,
structural cellular-biological approaches into theanalysis of biomolecules and our synthesized molecules.
(Fumiaki TOMOIKE)

Figure 2. Comparison between translation with linear mRNA andcircular mRNA.

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RCMS NEWSResearch Topic(Molecular Catalysis)

Development of Asymmetric Dehydrative
Tsuji-Trost Allylation
Previously, we have designed and synthesized a
new axially chiral PyCOOH-type ligand, R-Naph-PyCOOH(5-methyl-6-(2-R-naphthalen-1-yl)-pyridine-2-carboxylicacid)). Complex of Cl-Naph-PyCOOH with [CpRu(II)(CH3CN)3]PF6 (1) has been revealed to catalyze asymmetric dehydrative intramolecular O- and N-allylation
with excellent reactivity and selectivity.[1, 2]
The complex 1 captures an allylic alcohol substrate
via “soft Ru/soft C=C double bond” interaction and“hard COOH/hard hydroxy oxygen atom” interaction to
generate a catalyst/substrate complex A. Here, a donoracceptor bifunctional catalyst mechanism operates
to move A to the p -allyl complex. Such a cooperative
mechanism is the origin of the reactivity toward theunlabile allylic alcohol.
Recently, we have extened this chemistry to alkenyl
lactone synthesis. Optically active simple lactones withan allyloxycarbonyl moiety (alkenyl lactones) attract
much attention from organic synthetic chemists
because of their high functional convertibility. Among
many excellent catalytic methods, intramolecular Tsuji-

Figure 1. Dehydrative allylation catalyst

Figure 2. Optically active alkenyllactone synthesis via asymmetricdehydrative allylation.

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Trost (T-T) allylation seems tobe the most tangible, but it islimited to only a specific case.
This may be due to the fact thatthe alkenyl lactone is an excellent p -allyl donor in the traditional Pd-catalyzed allylation
using allyl esters under basic
conditions. We have changed
the situation by the reaction of w -carboxyl-substituted
allylic alcohols to the lactones using catalyst 1. The
new method can be applied to the synthesis of variousg - and d -alkenyl substituted lactones. Introduction of
a substituent at C(2) or C(3) of allylic alcohol moiety is
acceptable. This new method should further enhance
the utility of T-T-type asymmetric allylation, widening
the scope of retrosynthetic analyses of natural andunnatural important chiral compounds.[3]References[1] S. Tanaka, T. Seki, M. Kitamura, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2009, 48, 8948–8951.
[2] T. Seki, S. Tanaka, M. Kitamura, Org. Lett. 2012, 14,608–611.
[3] Y. Suzuki, T. Seki, S. Tanaka, M. Kitamura, J. Am. Chem.
Soc. 2015, 137, 9539–9542.
(Shinji TANAKA)

Visiting Professor 2015
Prof. Fernando Palacio
Professor, University of Zaragoza

Period of Stay:
October 13, 2015
– December 12, 2015
Research Theme:
Development of novel molecular and nano magnets
Prof. Fernando Palacio from University of Zaragoza,
Spain, stayed as a vising professor in RCMS for twomonths from 13th October, 2015, to develop novel molecular- and nano-magnets. He is a solid-state physicist
with strong expertise in these materials, and has beenworking in an interdisciplinary area between physics
and chemistry, and between fundamental and appliedresearch. His research into the ferromagnetic orderingof organic thiazyl radicals, and on the application of
nanoparticles of iron oxides, are extremely famous. He is
one of the pioneers of molecular magnetism,and has been leading this research field fora long time.
During his stay in Nagoya, he attended
the group meetings of the Awaga group andgave his valuable advice to the students andyoung researchers. He was full of curiosityand had an interest in everything. In addi-tion, he gave us an IGER-RCMS seminar, “THERMOMETRY AT THE NANOSCALE USING FUNCTIONALIZEDNANOPARTICLES” on Dec. 3rd. His contribution to
RCMS was very significant in terms of both researchand education.
Prof. Palacio is a great friend of Japan, and is a fanof Japanese foods, Japan-style hotels (Ryokan), and hot
spring resorts. During his stay in Japan, his wife had an
opportunity to come to Japan for two weeks, in which
they enjoyed a weekend in Hakone. He also visited
Nara with the exchange students from the University of
Edinburgh. Since he has a great knowledge of the Japanese gardens, such as SHAKKEI, he was very happy tolecture the students
from Edinburgh on
Japanese culture.
With a lot of goodmemories from Japan,
he returned to Spainon Dec. 12th

At the Seminar

Chemistry Gallery

Takayama trip

Making YUBAAt Yagoto Kosho-ji

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RCMS NEWS

Report from the Chemical Instrumentation Facility
The Chemical Instrumentation Facility is a facility
shared by the whole university that contains instrumental analysis equipment including a nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) spectrometer, mass spectrometer, andspectroscopic analysis equipment for analyzing molecular structures. In the Chemical Instrumentation Facility,
services are provided to users including teaching faculty,
researchers, and students through maintenance of thesemeasurement instruments, lectures on measurement
methods, consultations for specific measurements, andentrusted measurement. During the 2015 fiscal year,
as shown in “CIF Utilization Status”, 86 research groups
from the university registered to use the facility, and thenumber of teaching faculty, students, and researchers
who registered to use the facility during the year was
800.

ESR (JES TE-200, JEOL)[CIF Utilization Status]
Utilization Status for the Academic Year 2015
(April 2015 – April 2016)

Number of Uses/Measurements by Instrument

NMR room (ECS-400, JNM-A 600, JEOL)

Utilization Status by Department(Total: 86 Groups, 800 People)

FAB-MS (JMS 700, JEOL)

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RCMS Seminars
April 1, 2015 Dr. Thanyada Rungrotmongkol(Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science,
Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, Thailand)“Molecular dynamics studies on infectious diseases of humans”

May 11, 2015 Prof. Mark S.Taylor(University of Toronto)“Noncovalent and Reversible Covalent Interactions:
Fundamental Studies and New Applications”

May 12, 2015 Prof. Daniel T. Gryko(Polish Academy of Sciences)“From Pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrroles to Π-expanded
diketopyrrolopyrroles - the fluorophores for the future”

May 12, 2015 Prof. Dr. Andreas Heyden(Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA)
“Understanding and Designing Heterogeneous Catalysts
from First Principles”

May 14, 2015 Dr. J. B. Brown(Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical System Onco-Informatics
Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)“Computational studies of photosensitive flavoproteins : fromspectroscopy to understanding functional mechanisms”

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RCMS NEWS

June 6, 2015 Dr. Neil Robertson(University of Edinburgh)“New Materials for Hybrid Photovoltaics”

July 3, 2015 Professor Philip JESSOP(Queen’s University, Canada)“Switchable Solvents”

August 18, 2015 Prof. EUGENIO CORONADO(University of Valencia)“Magnetic Molecules and Hybrid Materials for Molecular Spintronics”

September 7, 2015 Dr. Ryo Shintani(Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology,
Graduate School of Engineering,
The University of Tokyo)

September 30, 2015 Prof. Lawrence Que, Jr.
(University of Minnesota)“The Amazing Nonheme High-Valent Iron-Oxo Reaction Landscape”

September 30, 2015 Dr. Shingo Nakamura(Innovation Network Corporation of Japan: INCJ)

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October 20, 2015 Prof. Daniel B. Werz
(Technical University of Braunschweig Germany)“Domino Reactions with Three-Membered Rings and Triple Bonds”

November 2, 2015 Prof. Masahiro Yamashita(Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science,
Tohoku University)

November 4, 2015 Professor Odile Eisenstein, Research Director - CNRS
(Catalysis and Interfaces Institute Charles GERHARDT – CNRS 5253
Université Montpellier)“Computational chemistry from Reactivity to NMR calculations:the case of Schrock olefin metathesis”

November 4, 2015 Prof. Légaré François(Institut national de la recherche scientifique-Centre Ènergie,
Matériaux, Télécommunications (INRS-ENT), Canada“ ‘Ultrafast and biomedical imaging at the Advanced Laser Light Source’Part 1: Ultrafast, Part 2: Biomedical ”

November 4, 2015 Prof. Jin-Quan Yu(The Scripps Research Institute USA)
“Developing diverse catalytic cycles for C-H activation reactions”

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November 30, 2015 Prof. Jeremiah A. Johnson(Department of chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
“Closing the loop: towards control of structure and topology in polymers”

November 30, 2015 Prof. Hiroki Oshio(Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences,
University of Tsukuba)

December 3, 2015 Prof. Fernando Palacio(University of Zaragoza, Spain)“THERMOMETRY AT THE NANOSCALE USINGFUNCTIONALIZED NANOPARTICLES”

January 15, 2016 Prof. Kazunari Domen(Graduate School of Engineering,
The University of Tokyo)

January 20, 2016 Prof. Tae-Lim Choi
(Seoul National University, Korea)“Applying New Synthetic Methodologies to Versatile Polymerizations”

16February 5, 2016 Prof. Masahiro Irie
(Research Center for Smart Molecules,
Rikkyo University)

March 14, 2016 Dr. Carla Bittencourt(Department of Chemistry, Université de Mons, Belgium)“Scanning Photoelectron Microscopy as a tool to analyze
plasma fluorinated graphene”

Awards List 2015
Assistant Prof. Kei Murakami
ITbM Research Award

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Awardin Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan

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RCMS NEWSChemistry Gallery
The Chemistry Gallery (2nd Floor of the Noyori Materials Science Laboratory) continued to host a large numberof visitors in 2015.
This includes many high school students and their parents visiting Nagoya University to tour the Chemistry
Gallery and follow University Professor Ryoji Noyori’s steps in his path to receiving the Nobel Prize, as well as people
who came to see special exhibitions held at the Gallery. In addition, the Gallery held many events such as seminars
and lectures by overseas guest researchers. And also many people visited during Open Campus in August (641people) and Nagoya University Home Coming Day in October. (1,200 people)

Guests from University of Strasbourg, France

Guest from Aichi prefecture office

Looking at the shine nobel medal

Kindergarten pupil

Visiting Prof. Palacio (right)

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This Year’s Event

New waiting space in front of
the guest professor’s office

Setting of the wireless LAN
system in the public space

Repairing of the building model in the lobby

Renewed building model (Chemistry Gallery)

New Entrance Lobby

New Entrance Lobby

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RCMS NEWS

Staff List
Director

Professor(2487)

awaga@mbox.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Special Advisor

University Professor Ryoji Noyori(2291)

yamaguchi@mbox.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Assistant Professor Kei Murakami(4525)

murakami@chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Professor

Mizuki Tada

(6200)

mtada@chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Associate Professor Hideo Takagi(5473)

htakagi@chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Associate Professor Yasuyuki Yamada(2471)

yy@chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Designated Professor Kazuyuki Tatsumi(2474)

i45100a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Professor(2494)

hishi@chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Assistant Professor Zhang Zhongyue(5106)

zhangzhongyue@i.mbox.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Assistant Professor Haruka Omachi(3660)

omachi.haruka@a.mbox.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Biomaterials
Research

Professor(3049)

p47297a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Assistant Professor Fumiaki Tomoike(2950)

tomoike@chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Molecular
Catalysis

University Professor Ryoji Noyori(2956)

noyori@chem3.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Assistant Professor Hiroshi Naka

(5411)

h_naka@nagoya-u.jp

Assistant Professor Shinji Tanaka(2960)

tanaka@os.rcms.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Organic Synthesis Professor

Inorganic
Synthesis

Functional
Materials

Kunio Awaga

Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Akiyoshi Hishikawa

Yoshihito Watanabe

Collaborative
Studies

Guest Professor

Masahiro Irie (Designated Professor, Rikkyo University)

Guest Professor

Palacio Fernand (Professor, Zaragoza University)

ChemicalInstrumentation
Facility

Manager / Professor Shigehiro Yamaguchi(2291)

yamaguchi@mbox.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Assistant Professor Chunguang Han(3072)

hanc@cic.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Technical Personnel Yutaka Maeda(3069)

maeda@cic.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Technical Personnel Kin-ichi Oyama(3069)

oyama@cic.nagoya-u.ac.jp

International Advisory Board

Michael Grunze (Professor Emeritus, Heidelberg University)
Roald Hoffman (Professor Emeritus, Cornell University – Laureate, Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
Henri Boris Kagan (Professor Emeritus, Paris-Sud 11 University)
Atsuko Tsuji (Editorial Writer, Asahi Shimbun)

Cooperating
Faculty

RCMS Office20

Professor

Hisanori Shinohara (Graduate School of Science) (2482)

noris@nagoya-u.jp

Professor

Kenichiro Itami (Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules) (6098)

itami.kenichiro@a.mbox.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Professor

Masato Kitamura (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences) (2957)

kitamura@os.rcms.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Professor

Susumu Saito (Graduate School of Science) (5945)

saito.susumu@f.mbox.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Distinguished Invited
Sumio Iijima
University Professor(6460)

iijimas@nagoya-u.jp

Administrative Staff Yuko Kihara(5907)

kihara@os.rcms.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Administrative Staff Chiaki Yamamoto(5902)

yamamoto@os.rcms.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Administrative Staff Sonoe Tankiku(5908)

tankiku@os.rcms.nagoya-u.ac.jp