

Research Interest

Inorganic Chemistry; Chemistry of Coordination Space
Synthesis and Properties of Porous Coordination Polymers / Metal-Organic Frameworks for understanding and controlling the role of nanospace

What I like about my science

Creating any nanoscale network structures ad arbitrium.

Researcher Q & A

Where are you from?

Kyoto city

Why did you become a researcher?

I chose chemistry as a career because … chemists understand the difference between ethanol and methanol


Experiment: Crystallization of metal complexes; it makes a start for our chemistry.
Theory: frontier orbital theory; it gives a guideline for synthetic chemists
Instrument: Solid State NMR; we can observe spectrum without any treatments.

What is your hobby?

Detective and police fiction novels: I can be a detective in the fictive world Kabuki and Super kabuki: representation of human nature is fantastic European thriller movies: I quickly become entranced in the story

Wine-tasting in a winery in Katsunuma, which is the best place to produce excellent white wines in Japan.

Organic molecules and metal ions provide a wide variety of networks having nanospaces, which have great potential in applications for our imminent environment as well as a wide variety of fields, such as the global environment, resources, outer space, life, and energy, suggesting that porous materials are extremely valuable both scientifically and industrially.