End-of-year party

We had a nice party for Christmas time with good foods and quality drinks. Toasting for good works in 2018! Have a nice new year!

The 13th IoL Colloquium

The 13th IoL Colloquium was held in Tokiwa campus. In this colloquium, we invited Assist. Prof. Iwasaki, Okayama University, who gave us a very fantastic talk on novel chalcogenation reactions. We also invited Assoc. Prof. Murakami, Nagoya University, who gave us a very exciting talk on new methodology toward novel functional molecules. We enjoyed very stimulating […]

IKCOC-14

IKCOC-14 was held at Kyoto. Mr. Noguchi and Dr. Kawamoto attended the conference. Mr. Noguchi presented his work on orogano fluorine chemistry. We were stimulated by interesting scientific talks presented by famous scientists.

Symposium of ionic liquids chemistry

was held at Yonago, Tottori and Mr. Shiramatsu, a 2nd year master student, presented his work on solubility switchable ionic liquids. His presentation was interested among many scientists.

The Hattori Hokokai Foundation

Dr. Takuji Kawamoto won a grant from the foundation. Awarding ceremony was held in Tokyo. Congratulations! We expect this grant accelerates your research project.

Research works on ionic liquids chemistry

Research works on ionic liquids chemistry have been published as two papers. One is a work on the conversion of furfural derivatives to useful chemicals, and the reaction in ionic liquids provides high efficiency. This work, published in RSC Adv., was mainly performed by Valerie, a former post-doc in our group, and Yuto helped some […]

RSC Adv.

Karaluka, V.; Murata, K.; Masuda, S.; Shiramatsu, Y.; Kawamoto, T.; Hailes, H. C.; Sheppard, T. D.; Kamimura, A. Development of a microwave-assisted sustainable conversion of furfural hydrazones to functionalised phthalimides in ionic liquids. RSC Adv. 2018, 8, 22617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8RA03895C  

V3! The softball tournament in the chemistry department

We won the tournament again in this year! We have achieved V3! Our pitcher completed all games including one shut-out game, and earned almost 10 runs for every games. It was the perfect win! We enjoyed beers of the winning award. We are going to achieve V4 in the next tournament. Hey guys, loving playing […]

Chem. Lett.

Kamimura, A.; Shiramatsu, Y.; Murata, K.; Kawamoto, T. Solubility-switchable ionic liquids: A control of hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity using a protective group. Chem. Lett. 2018, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1246/cl.180382.

Tetrahedron

Kamimura, A.; Watanabe, R.; Fukumitsu, T.; Ikeda, K.; Kawamoto, T.; Sumimoto, M.; Mori, S.; Uno, H. Deltaarenes; novel macrocyclic molecules that are readily available from 1,4-benzoquinone and benzene dithiols. Tetrahedron 2018, in press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2018.04.070.