Proactive utilization of aqueous environments to explore organic reactions

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06134
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Organic chemistry
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Kitanosono Taku 東京大学, 大学院理学系研究科(理学部), 特任助教 (50755981)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 水 / 反応場 / 触媒 / 溶媒 / 有機合成 / 不斉 / 界面活性剤 / 不溶

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research aims to substantiate the potentiality of "in water" to achieve novel modes of chemical transformations that may be difficult or sluggish to perform in organic solvents. Subsequently, the superiority of water over organic solvents was displayed in several asymmetric reactions. Besides, multidisciplinary studies led to profound insights fundamentally to explore this field. The outcomes of this research would make significant contributions to synthetic chemistry as well as to minimize the ecological footprint of organic chemistry, causing a drastic paradigm shift of chemical synthesis from “in organic solvent” to “in water”.

Free Research Field

有機化学