Hiroshi Naka

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi have been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry for the development of a new type of molecular architecture. In 1989, chemistry laureate Richard Robson tested utilising the inherent properties of atoms in a new way. He combined positively charged copper ions with a four-armed molecule; this had a chemical group that was attracted to copper ions at the end of each arm. When they were combined, they bonded to form a well-ordered, spacious crystal. It was like a diamond filled with innumerable cavities.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. #NobelPrize

The 2024 #NobelPrize laureates in chemistry Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have successfully utilised artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins. In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic. Read more about their story: bit.ly/3XI7KK3

Had a wonderful moment at @BrockUniversity yesterday. Thank you Prof. Georgii Nikonov for his hospitality on my visit and for private Niagara Falls tour. It was really an amazing experience!

It was a great honour to visit the University of Ottawa ⁦@uOttawa⁩ and give a talk on the synthsis and design of deuterated materials. Thank you Fabien and his colleagues/students for hosting me and sharing chemistry with me. It was a wonderful visit!

Had a great day at @UofT. Many thanks to Prof. Mark Taylor and his wonderful colleagues/students for hosting me and for providing me with this amazing food experience!

Welcoming to Pharm Kyoto U, Alastair! He starts here as a @jsps_sns JSPS Postdoctral Fellow!

Thank you for coming! Pls enjoy the rest of your stay at Kyoto!

Welcomed Prof. Dr. Christian Merten @MertenLab from Ruhr-University Bochum. Many thanks for the stimulating & instructive talk on VCD!

Thank you Prof. Takayoshi Ishimoto, for your significant contributions to the MC_DFT calculations of the quantum isotopic effect! apchem.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/sub/ishimoto.h…

An answer to a puzzling isotope effect on catalyst deuteration. Now on line #BCSJ @CSJjournals_jp . Congrats Sei! Inverse Kinetic Isotope Effect in Singlet-to-Triplet Intersystem Crossing Contributes to Greater Robustness of Deuterated Organocatalyst academic.oup.com/bcsj/article/d…

My great honor to receive the RIGAKU-ACCC Rising Star Award at @Accc9Thailand on behalf of amazing, creative @Yanai_Lab members and wonderful collaborators. I'd appreciate the ACCC commitee for choosing us. accc9.org/content/awards Amazed to see myself confined in the crystal😂

@deuteration 2024 highlighted (text in Japanese).

Please RT. We have a fully-funded PhD (or postdoctoral) position available in the field of molecular spintronics (combining optical spectroscopy and transient pulse EPR). The PDF advert can be found here: richert.uni-freiburg.de/contact. @EPR_ESR @RSC_ESR @PhotochemGDCh @EuropeanPhotoc1

Consulting service and catalog of deuterated molecules available. sites.google.com/view/deu-switc…

[3] Theoretical calculations of deuterated materials (MC_MO, MC_DFT) [4] Analytical measurements of deuterated materials (e.g. in situ Raman spectroscopy, SAXS, SANS (of deuterated protein)) [4] Metabolic study [5] D2O recovery sites.google.com/view/deu-switc…

Renewed website of Deut-Switch English page: sites.google.com/view/deu-switc…