Kenichi Kato
Department:
Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry
Keywords:
Physical organic chemistry, Three-dimensional skeleton, Chirality, Amorphous materials
Email:
kato.kenichi.5r at kyoto-u.ac.jp
Homepage:
https://katokenichi.sakura.ne.jp/
Organic materials are lightweight and flexible, and they are designed by forming characteristic chemical structures from a few kinds of elements. Most of the conventional materials combine functional π-conjugated cores and flexible substituents on the peripheries for tuning solubility and molecular assembling. On the other hand, we use three-dimensional π-skeletons for 1) creating molecular-sized voids, 2) changing insoluble/crystalline materials into soluble/amorphous ones, and 3) endowing the materials with chirality.
