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
Access to Ookayama campus, campus map
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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If you would like to conduct research in our group, please visit this page.

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!
2025.04.26
We had a BBQ party with former students at Mizonokuchi.
2025.04.25
Yamamoto (D3) won a CSJ Student Presentation Award 2025.
2025.04.24
Mr. Shigeru Soda, who is a member of the national team for Chemistry Olympiad 2025, will have a training in our research group.
2025.04.23
New projects were assigned to all new members.
2025.04.19
Prof. Yamashita gave an invited talk in the Symposium on the Frontiers in Synthetic Chemistry: Innovation and Sustainability (SFSC2025), held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2025.04.08
Group picture on the toppage is updated.
2025.04.05
We had a Hanami (watching cherry blossoms) at Senzokuike park with the Goto-Ono group as a welcome party for new members.
2025.04.04
An article by Yamanashi (former student, just got Ph.D. in March 2025) was accepted to Chem. Eur. J. for publication. "Publications" is updated.
2025.04.01
New fiscal year started. Shikata (administrative assistant), Kawawa (M1), Kamiguchi (B4), Tsuji (B4), Hirano (B4), Ito (collaborative researcher), Tsuchida (collaborative researcher), Mori (collaborative researcher), and Nishimura (B3, B2D student) joined the group. "Members" was updated.　Dr. Zatsepin Pavel will stay in the group of Prof. Karsten Meyer at University of Erlangen (Germany) for 2 months. Dr. Satoshi Kurumada, a former Ph.D. student, is appointed as an assistant professor of Niwa group at Kyushu University.
2025.03.29
ZATSEPIN (PD), FELD (PD), Yamanashi (D3), YAN (D3), Yamamoto (D2), and Hirose (M1) presented their research on 105th annual meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan.
2025.03.25
Prof. Yamashita and Yamamoto (D2) presented the research in International Conference on Condensed Conjugation held at Kyoto University.
2025.03.18
Prof. Debabrata Maiti (IIT Bombay, India) visited our lab. and gave a lecture. Some members had a discussion about their research with Prof. Maiti.
2025.03.17
Prof. Morimoto won Seiichi Tejima Research Award (Fujino-Nakamura Young Researcher Award). "Awards" was updated.
2025.03.13
We had farewell party for leaving members.
2025.02.21
Yamanashi (D3) safely finished the defense for his Ph.D. degree.
2025.02.14
Two Ph.D. students (D3: YAN, D2: Yamamoto) and four M1 students (Ishihata, Hirose, Yamanokuchi, Hirakawa) presented their research at the mid-term defence for their degrees.
2025.02.12
Three master students (Takeuchi, Tanizawa, Hazumi) presented their research at the final defence for master's degree at Nagoya University.
2025.02.07
We had a farewell party for Tin.
2025.02.05
Dr. Arikawa was awarded Inoue Research Award for Young Scientist.
2025.01.31
Prof. Wonwoo Nam (Ewha Womans University, Korea) visited our lab. and gave a lecture (Prof. Morimoto organized). Some of grad students and staff members had a discussion about their research with Prof. Nam.
2025.01.21
Group picture on the toppage is updated.
2025.01.11
Prof. Yamashita and Ishihata (M1) attended Kanto Main group Chemistry Seminar (KaMECS-2025). Ishihata presented his research. We will organize this seminar in the next fiscal year.
2025.01.10
We had a welcome party for Joey.
2025.01.07
Yamanashi and Ding finished their pre-defense.
2025.01.04
Prof. Morimoto gave an invited lecture in the 7th Japan-Singapore-Taiwan-Hong Kong Quadrilateral Symposium on Coordination Chemistry (QSCC2025).
2025.01.01
Dr. Joey FELD joined to our group as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow. "Members" is updated.
2024.12.27
We had a year-end-party.
2024.12.17
Prof. Yamashita gave an invited talk　and Yamamoto (D2) presented his research in the poster session at BORAM-18 (Boron in the Americas) held at UCLA. It was announced that Dr. Arikawa will be awarded Inoue Research Award for Young Scientist.
2024.12.05
A communication by Yamanashi (D3 student) was accepted to Chem. Eur. J. for publication. "Publications" is updated.
2024.11.16
Prof. Morimoto and Hirose (M1) attended the 57th Symposium on Oxidation Reaction.
2024.10.30
Prof. Yamashita and Yamanashi (D3) attended the 20th Japan-Korea Joint Symposium on Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry to present their research.
2024.10.17
Prof. Yamashita gave an invited lecture in a symposium at smart energy center of Toyota Technological Institute.
2024.10.16
Dr. Davor Margetić (Rudjer Boskovic Institute) visited our lab. and gave a lecture. All group members had a discussion about their research with Dr. Margetić.
2024.10.05
We attended "subway seminar" held at U-Tokyo, Komaba campus.
2024.10.03
A communication by Dr. Feng, a former postdoc, was accepted to J. Am. Chem. Soc. for publication. "Publications" is updated. We had a welcome party for Prof. Arikawa and Filipovic.
2024.10.01
Dr. Shinobu Arikawa joined the group as an assistant professor. The name of the university is changed to Institute of Science Tokyo.

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