The Yamashita-Morimoto Group
@Institute of Science Tokyo
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2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
Department of Chemistry,
School of Science, Institute of Science Tokyo
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East 1 Building, room 41, 44, 45



Our mission:
Through deep understanding the hidden properties of each element, we will contribute to chemistry of the materials and catalysis science!

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We will host The 18th International Meeting of Boron Chemistry (IMEBoron-18) in 2026, September 6-10.

internal webpage for group members

Old toppage pictures can be found here.

News!
2026.04.16
An article by Zatsepin, a former postdoc, was acceped to Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. for publication. "Publications" is updated.
2026.04.04
We held a welcome party for new members, which also included cherry blossom viewing (unfortunately, it was held indoors due to bad weather).
2026.04.03
We took a group picture. Toppage picture is updated.
2026.04.01
New fiscal year started. Chen (M1), Nishikawa (M1), Morita (M1), Ikeya (B4), Kamekawa (B4), Suzuki (collaborative researcher), and Yamaguchi (collaborative researcher) joined the group.
2026.03.31
Thanks to JST-LOTUS program, Dr. Urminder KAUR joined the group.
2026.03.26
The graduation celemony was held. Three undergrad students (Kamiguchi, Tsuji, Hirano), three master students (Isihata, Hirose, Yamanokuchi), and two Ph.D. students (Yan, Yamamoto) got their bachelor, master, and Ph.D. degree.
2026.03.20
Prof. Morimoto, Yamamoto (D3), YAN (D3), Ishihata (M2), Yamanokuchi (M2), Kawawa (M1), and Kamiguchi (B4) presented their research on 106th annual meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan.
2026.03.14
Yamamoto (D3) had a wedding ceremony.
2026.03.13
Prof. Mark Gandelman (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) visited our lab., and gave a lecture. Some members had a discussion about their research with Prof. Gandelman.
2026.03.11
Prof. Yamashita gave an invited lecture at International Main Group Element Chemistry Seminar 2026 (IMECS-2026) (Tsukuba).
2026.02.27
Tsuchida presented his research at the graduation defence.
2026.02.24
Prof. Morimoto gave an invited lecture at the 1st seminar of molecular spins.
2026.02.20
Three B4 students (Kamiguchi, Tsuji, Hirano) presented their research at the graduation defence.
2026.02.19
Dr. Emmanuel Lacôte (Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, France) visited our lab., and gave a lecture. Some members had a discussion about their research with Dr. Lacôte.
2026.02.16
Prof. Yamashita gave an invited lecture at 3rd International Symposium on the Interplay of p-Block and Organometallic Chemistry (Palma de Mallorca, Spain).
2026.02.13
Kawawa (M1) presented his research at the mid-term defence for master's degree.
2026.02.12
Prof. François Gabbaï (Texas A&M University, USA) visited our lab., and gave a lecture. Some members had a discussion about their research with Prof. Gabbaï.
2026.02.06
Ito and Mori presented their research at the graduation defence.
2026.02.03
Three master students (Ishihata, Hirose, Yamanokuchi) presented their research at the final defence for master's degree.
2026.02.01
Zatsepin (PD) is appointed as a specially apointed assistant professor of the Iwasaki Group at Kyushu University. "Members" is updated.
2026.01.28
We had a farewel party for Pavel.
2026.01.16
Prof. Morimoto gave an invited lecture at the 9th JSCC Frontier Seminar (online).
2026.01.14
A communication by Yamamoto (D3) was accepted to Dalton Trans. for publication. "Publications" is updated.
2026.01.10
We organized the 5th Kanto Main Group Element Chemistry Seminar (KaMECS-2026). Hirose (M2) gave an oral talk. ZATSEPIN (PD), DING (PD), YAN (D3), YAMAMOTO (D3), PAN (D1), ISHIHATA (M2), YAMANOKUCHI (M2), KAWAWA (M1), and KAMIGUCHI (B4) gave a poster presentation.
2026.01.06
Yamamoto (D3) safely? defended his Ph.D. thesis.
2025.12.26
We had a year-end-party.
2025.12.20
Prof. Yamashita and Prof. Morimoto gave invited lectures at Pacifichem 2025.
2025.12.12
Prof. Erli Lu (University of Birmingham, UK) and Prof. Fabrizio Ortu (University of Leicester, UK) visited our lab., and we organized lectures by Prof. Lu and Prof. Ortu. Some members had a discussion about their research with Prof. Lu and Prof. Ortu
2025.12.08
Pusztai (visiting student) finished his short stay and left the group. We had a farewell party. "Members" is updated.
2025.12.06
Zatsepin (PD), Ding (PD), and Ishihat (M2) presented their research at the 52nd Symposium on Main Group Element Chemistry at Tsukuba.
2025.12.03
Prof. Takeaki Iwamoto visited us to have a short course for graduate students. We also organized his lecture.
2025.11.30
An article by YAN (researcher) was accepted to Chem. Sci. for publication. "Publications" is updated.
2025.11.22
Prof. Morimoto and Kamiguchi (B4) attended A Regional Seminar of Kanto Branch of Young Coordination Chemists' Association of Japan.
2025.11.17
A former student, Haruki Kumada (finished at 2024 March), visited the lab. for his business.
2025.11.12
The entire laboratory participated in the disaster prevention drill at Ookayama Campus. Prof. Kallol Ray (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) and Prof. Wonwoo Nam (Ewha Womans University) visited our lab., and we organized a lecture Prof. Kallol Ray. Some members had a discussion about their research with Prof. Ray and Prof. Nam.
2025.10.25
YAN (researcher) and Prof. Yamashita attended ACCC-10 (The 10th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry) at Hanoi, Vietnam to present our research and to give an invited lecture.
2025.10.22
Prof. Morimoto gave an invited lecture at IMS (Institute of Molecular Science) Seminar.
2025.10.19
Prof. Yamashita gave an invited lecture at the 40th anniversary symposium of the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry at Nankai University, China.
2025.10.08
We had a welcome party for PAN, PUSZTAI, and LORETZ.
2025.10.01
A Ph.D. student (PAN Yifan) and two visiting students [PUSZTAI David (University of Erlangen, Germany), LORETZ Alex (York University)] joined the group.

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