Academic Staff and Fellows

MAEKAWA Masahiko
Professor Doctor of Science
Research Institute for Science and Technology
Graduate school/Science

We study about the syntheses, structures and functions of metal complexes and coordination polymers with gaseous small molecules (olefins, carbonyls, hydrides, etc.).

Research Area Coordination Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry
Teaching (Undergraduate Course) Environmental Science (Fac. of Low, Fac. of Economics), Chemistry Laboratory Ⅳ, Seminar for Bachelor Thesis, Individual Study for Bachelor Thesis
Teaching (Graduate Course) Organometallic Chemistry, Inorganic Functional Chemistry, Advanced Research on Functional Molecular Chemistry, Ph.D.Study in Organometallic Chemistry, Ph.D. Exercises in Functional Molecular Chemistry
Research Interests (1) Synthesis, structure and physical properties of novel metallomacrocycles and coordination polymers
(2) Synthesis, Structure and Physical Properties of metal Complexes and coordination polymers with gaseous small molecules
(3) Synthesis, structure and physical properties of heterometallic metal complex and coordination polymers
(4) Synthesis, structure and physical properties of novel metallocene compounds
(5) State analysis of metal complexes by NMR and single crystal X-ray structural analyses
Selected Publications (1) Structural diversity of copper(I) ethylene complexes with 2,4-bis(2-pyridyl)pyrimidine directed by anions, M. Maekawa, T. Hayashi, K. Sugimoto, T. Okubo, T. Kuroda-Sowa,
Dalton Transactions, 2023, 52(41), 14941-14948.

(2) Syntheses and structural characterization of heterometallic trinuclear {Cu(I),Ag(I)}-Ir(III) hydride complexes bridged by Ir metalloligands, M. Maekawa, S. Oda, K. Sugimoto, T. Okubo, T. Kuroda-Sowa, Results Chem., 2022, 4, 100550.

(3) Structurally diverse dinuclear Cu(I) complexes and 1D helical Cu(I) coordination polymers bridged by 2,2':6',4''-terpyridine, M. Maekawa, M. Yabuta, K. Sugimoto, T. Okubo, T. Kuroda-Sowa, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2021, 528, 120628.
Research and Achievements
Affiliated Academic Societies The Chemical Society of Japan, Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry, The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry, The Kinki Chemical Society, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Society of Chemical Industry
Education
(Undergraduate Course)
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kinki University
Education
(Master's/Doctral Course)
Department of Chemistry (Master and Doctor Course), Graduate School of Chemistry, Kinki University
Title of Thesis, Institute, Date Studies of syntheses, structures and properties of copper and silver complexes having metal-metal interaction  (Kinki University, 1990)



 
Biography Apr. 1990- : Research associate, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Kinki University
Aug. 1995- (one year) : Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, The University of Liverpool, UK
Apr. 1999- : Associate Professor, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Kinki University
Apr. 2003- : Associate Professor, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Kinki University
Apr. 2010- : Professor, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Kinki University

Organometallic chemistry laboratory

E-mail maekawa(at)rist.kindai.ac.jp
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Academic Staff and Fellows