Organic Transformations Exploiting Solar Energy as the Driving Force

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24655077
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Synthetic chemistry
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: MURAKAMI Masahiro 京都大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (20174279)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 有機合成 / 反応開発 / 光 / 遷移金属触媒

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The modern society faces the pressing environmental issues such as depletion of fossil fuels and increase of the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide. It is highly desired to develop innovative synthetic methods utilizing readily available substances and renewable resources efficiently, in order to develop sustainable technologies. This project focused on the exploitation of light as the energy source in organic synthesis. Solar-driven incorporation of carbon dioxide into amino ketones and efficient synthetic methods for N-heterocyclic compounds from amino ketones were developed.

Free Research Field

有機合成化学