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The coordination chemistry laboratory at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University has been very traditional lab, and has been successful in the research activities as well as in growing up many excellent academia.

This lab was first taken care of by Prof. Dr. Shigeo Kida, who is now one of the Emeritus professors of Kyushu University. As the second stage of this lab, it was taken care of by Prof. Dr. Hisashi Ohkawa, who is also one of the Emeritus professors of this University. Prof. Kida received his Ph.D. from Osaka University. Prof. Ohkawa took his Ph.D. in pure organic chemistry, and he then he changed his major field into the coordination chemistry.

The third stage of this lab is now under the care of K.S. If one inspect the scientist who used to study at this lab, one realizes that amazingly a lot of excellent scientists once had their research life at this lab. As shown in the following list, many academia listed below who were used to be involved in the research activity at this lab are now independently leading their own groups. Many of them are still involved in the research activities that are correlated with their experiences in coordination chemistry. I hope that the young students at this university are still powerful enough to be successful in their research activities.

  • Prof. Dr. Yuzo Nishida, Material and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University.
  • Prof. Dr. Masatomi Sakamoto, Material and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University. (PhD, 1973)
  • Prof. Dr. Masatatsu Suzuki, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University (PhD, 1975)
  • Prof. Dr. Naohide Matsumoto, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kumamoto University（PhD, 1979)
  • Prof. Dr. Masahiro Mikuriya, Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University. (PhD, 1980)
  • Prof. Dr. Masahiro Yamashita, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University. (PhD, 1981)
  • Dr. Wakako Kanda, Associate Professor of Faculty and Graduate School of Education, Wakayama University. (PhD, 1983)
  • Dr. Kazuhiro Takahashi, Associate Professor at this lab. (PhD, 1985)
  • Prof. Dr. Masahito Kodera, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Doshisha University. (Used to be a research associate at Ohkawa group)
  • Dr. Masaaki Nakamura, Associate Professor of Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kumamoto University.
  • Dr. Eiji Asato, Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry, Biology and Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Ryukyu University. (PhD, 1989)
  • Dr. Masayuki Koikawa, Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University. (PhD, 1991)
  • Prof. Dr. Makoto Tadokoro, Professor of the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Science University of Tokyo. (PhD, 1991)
  • Dr. Hiroshi Sakiyama, Associate Professor of the Department of Material and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University. (PhD, 1993)
  • Dr. Masato Kurihara, Associate Professor of the Department of Material and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University. (PhD, 1995)
  • Dr. Michito Shiotsuka, Assistant Professor of the Graduate Schoold of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology. (PhD, 1995)
  • Prof. Dr. Masaaki Ohba, Professor of the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University. (PhD, 1996)
  • Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Miyasaka, Professor of the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University. (PhD, 1998)
  • Dr. Hideki Furutachi, Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University. (PhD, 1998)
  • Dr. Yuji Miyazato, Assistant Professor of the School of Creative Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University. (PhD, 2004)
  • Dr. Takuya Shiga, Assistant Professor of the Graduate School of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba. (PhD, 2004)
  • Dr. Shigeyuki Masaoka, Accociate Professor of National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Institute for Molecular Science（Ex-Assistant Professor of Sakai lab, H17-22）
  • Dr. Hironobu Ozawa, Assistant Professor at this lab.（PhD, 2006）
  • Dr. Msanari Hirahara, Assistant Professor of Department of Applied Chemistry, National Defense Academy（PhD, 2011）
  • Dr. Kosei Yamauchi, Assistant Professor at this lab.（PhD, 2014）
  • Dr. Masaki Yoshida, Assistant Professor of Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University（PhD, 2012）
  • Dr. Takashi Nakazono, Assistant Professor of Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Rikkyo University (PhD, 2017)

    • The photo at the top of this page, taken very recently, shows a view of West Zone building #1 of Ito campus. The buildings in the left of the photo are A block and B block where laboratorys of Department of Chemistry are located. Our lab is located on the north side of 10th floor of B block.

    The photo at the bottom shows a view of the building #2 of the Faculty of Science at our older campus, Hakozaki campus. The next photo shows a sign showing that this is the entrance of the Department of Chemistry in Japanese-style Chinese characters. This is located on the east-south part of the building #2.

    Hakozaki_building_2 Hakozaki_entrance

    It should also noted that this page has been prepared so that the young students currently learning at this department should be able to notice what has happened to this lab. so far. If there is anybody who wish to give a comment about the content of this page should send a message to K.S. If anybody who graduated from this lab. finds a mistake, please do not hesitate in contacting K.S.
    K.S. appreciates any message on this matter.