Division of Material Chemistry

ResearchSynthetic Organic Chemistryｆield
http://kohka.ch.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/lab4/lab4.html

Lab. ID
MC12Laboratory web site
Research subjects
Our major interests are synthetic organic chemistry, especially in the development of new synthetic organic
reactions and materials using characteristics of elements and/or photochemistry. Our recent research topics arelisted below.
1. Development of highly efficient and selective new photochemical reactions
2. Development of functionalized fluorescent materials based on pyrene derivatives
3. Development of novel optical materials based on azaporphyrinoids4. Synthesis of novel functional pi-electronic systems by the new organic reactions

Master/Doctor course: Education policy, curriculum, typical activity in the laboratory
In undergraduate students, you should train to master fundamental experimental technique, knowledge about
safety, quantitative mentality, reading ability of literature, document retrieval, and English ability. Although we
recommend you to study organic synthesis in undergraduate, you can join from the other fields with your highmotivation on organic chemistry. In master and doctor courses, you follow each professor in our group and should
attend group meetings and/or discussions. Meetings of reading textbooks and introduction of journal articles will
be held once a week, respectively. Meetings of research seminar will be held 3-4 times in a year. Afterattendance at academic conferences, attendance report will be presented. Special lectures by the professors
from the other institute will also be held randomly. Students attend domestic/international conferences to have apresentation of their research results. Finally, we will submit papers to international journals.
Daily life in the laboratory, etc.
Independent laboratory table and a desk are provided to each student. In the laboratory, students carry out not
only organic synthetic experiments, but also analysis of physical properties, theoretical calculations, retrieve
literatures, making slides or papers for conferences, attending the classes, and discuss the results withprofessors and senior students. Since students should have many tasks, we recommend students strongly towork intensively from 9:00 am to late night. For the safety’s reason, the experiments should be carried out
without alone. In the seminars, students should have questions and comments for the other presentation.
Message or comments by the laboratory faculty staffs
It is interesting that research results include individual personality and originality. Experimental results are often
anticipated, but unexpected results are sometimes obtained. When students meet such serendipity, it causes
opportunity to be deeply fascinated by chemical research. To find serendipitous novel results, students needdeep knowledge in the wide and various fields. We want to tell students an importance of a wide range of vision, apleasure of research and creativity of solutions toward difficulties in future through the research activity. Pleasecome to our laboratory if you are interested in organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and photochemistry. Many
students will find work in future in chemical industry or pharmaceutical companies. Lab's recreational trip, beerparty, softball/badminton day (including beer party), will be held at any time and you may attend them to spend
comfortable days.
Laboratory mail address

Hajime Maeda<maeda-h@se.kanazawa-u.ac.jp>, Taniyuki
Furuyama<tfuruyama@se.kanazawa-u.ac.jp>