Pi-electrons in conjugated molecules play decisive roles for the electronic and photophysical properties of organic compounds. We are studying designs, syntheses, structures, and physical properties of novel pi-conjugated systems, with particular emphasis on functional properties such as electron transport, magnetism, photo-switching, and chiro-optics. Work in these areas is highly synthesis-driven, and is also strongly based on physical organic chemistry. Our wide variety of chemistry will lead to discovery of new class of electronic- and photonic-materials as well as of fundamental scientific ideas.
[Research Interests]
1) Understanding the electronic structure of singlet biradical molecules
2) Exploring the functional properties of novel hydrocarbon radicals
3) Development of proton-coupled electron transfer system
4) Synthesis of three-dimensional pi-conjugated molecules
5) Synthesis and new function of novel COT-based molecules