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Organic chemistry is defined as the "chemistry of carbon compounds"
and organic compounds as a "substance group whose components are molecules
with relatively simple elemental composition such as carbon, hydrogen,
oxygen and nitrogen", respectively. Skillfully
combining such covalent bonds, compound groups with highly diverse structures
can be constructed. In our laboratory,
we are engaged in the molecular design of organic compounds expected to have
interesting properties, such as conductivity and ferromagnetism, and actually
synthesizing these organic compounds by fully exploiting the latest methodology
of organic synthesis and evaluating their properties. In the meantime, we are also developing new
synthetic reactions that utilize organometallic compounds, radical reagents generated
by electron-transfer reactions, novel reagents involving hetero atoms and so on,
and applying them to the synthesis of targeted compounds. Accordingly, in order to derive new functions potentially
contained in organic compounds, we are conducting "research for generating
new compound groups" from viewpoints of material science. |