ICR ANNUAL REPORT 2010 (Volume 17) - ISSN 1342-0321 - This Annual Report covers from 1 January to 31 December 2010 Editors: Professor: ONO, Teruo Professor: MURATA, Yasujiro Associate Professor: TSUJI, Masaki Assistant Professor: KAWAZOE, Yoshinori Editorial Staff: Public Relations Section: TANIMURA, Michiko TSUGE, Aya KOTANI, Masayo NAKANO, Yukako Published and Distributed by: Institute for Chemical Research (ICR), Kyoto University Copyright 2011 Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University Enquiries about copyright and reproduction should be addressed to: ICR Annual Report Committee, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University Note: ICR Annual Report available from the ICR Office, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji-city, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan Tel: +81-(0)774-38-3344 Fax: +81-(0)774-38-3014 E-mail [email protected] URL http://www.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.html Uji Library, Kyoto University Tel: +81-(0)774-38-3010 Fax: +81-(0)774-38-4370 E-mail [email protected] URL http://lib.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/homepage/japanese/index.htm Printed by: Nakanishi Printing Co., Ltd. Ogawa Higashi-iru, Shimodachiuri, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto-city 602-8048, Japan TEL: +81-(0)75-441-3155 FAX: +81-(0)75-417-2050 ICR AN NU AL REPORT 2010 Institute for Chemical Research Kyoto University Volume 17 Pref ace Institute for Chemical Research (ICR) dates back to 1915 with our breadth and depth. In other words, ICR is multidimensional, the founding of the Specialized Center for Chemical Research at and is constantly widening and deepening its research activities. the Faculty of Science, Kyoto Imperial University. The formation We intend to use our strengths to contribute to pioneering research of the Specialized Center was greatly infl uenced by historical as well as to expand the boundaries of chemistry-related fi elds and events. In 1910, Dr. Sahachiro Hata developed salvarsan, a highly further to promote research collaborations, which are not easy in effective drug for syphilis, while conducting research with Dr. conventional graduate schools. Moreover, we aim to utilize our Paul Ehrlich. The effectiveness of this compound eventually strengths as an outstanding center in education in order to produce became widely recognized, and its commercial production began excellent scientists and engineers who can actively contribute to in Germany. Although Japan was importing this drug, the outbreak our global society on the basis of their broad and profound of the World War I ceased the importation, and forced by circum- perspective. ICR is currently executing Global COE Programs in stances the Japanese government requested that the University of collaboration with the Graduate school of Engineering, the Graduate Tokyo and Kyoto University produced salvarsan. The fourth school of Science and Graduate school of Informatics. These Chancellor of Kyoto University, Professor Mitsuru Kuhara, who Programs include “International Center for Integrated Research also happened to be a chemist, received this request. Facilities for and Advanced Education in Material Science (starting from salvarsan production were built with an investment of 20,000 yen, 2007)” encompassing chemistry and materials science fi elds, which is equivalent to about 200 million yen in today’s market. “Center of Excellence for Education and Research on Photonics Production went well, and as income was generated, faculty and Electronics Science and Engineering (from 2007)” involving members, who had a passion for research in chemistry, gathered information science, electrical engineering, and electronics fi elds, from across the University to form the Specialized Center for and “The Next Generation of Physics, Spun from Universality & Chemical Research, which was later expanded and renamed as the Emergence Developing Independent Researchers to Explore New Institute for Chemical Research (ICR) in 1926. The newly estab- Frontiers (from 2008)” covering physics, astronomy, and materials lished ICR soon began to produce outstanding research achieve- chemistry fi elds. ments: research on accelerators by Professor Bunsaku Arakatsu, In addition, ICR is making enthusiastic contribution to the research on synthesized petroleum oil production, and the devel- MEXT Project of Integrated Research on Chemical Synthesis opment of vinylon, which is Japan’s fi rst synthetic fi ber. Almost (2010-2016)”, in collaboration with the Catalysis Research Center all professors at the Institute, including the aforementioned, were at Hokkaido University, the Research Center for Materials also professors at the Faculty of Engineering or Science. However, Science at Nagoya University and the Institute for Materials over time, people began to recognize the importance of having Chemistry and Engineering at Kyushu University. This is the professors dedicated solely to ICR in order to operate ICR with a second stage of the project supported by MEXT through the clear responsibility, as well as the importance of the Institute’s Research and Education Funding for Inter-University Research contribution in training researchers by providing guidance to Project. Furthermore, ICR is currently collaborating with domes- graduate students. Thus, ICR began accepting graduate students tic/oversea universities and research organizations (with 49 offi cial in 1962, and reorganization in 1964 saw the installation of the international collaboration agreements) and has been functioning research division system where each division was led by one of as a Joint Usage/Research Center supported by MEXT, “Frontier/ our dedicated professors. Since the founding of ICR in 1926, our Interdisciplinary Research Core in ICR for Deepening Investiga- basic principle has been to excel in the investigation of basic tion and Promoting Cooperation in Chemistry-Oriented Fields” principles of chemistry and their applications. Through several (since 2010). reorganizations, ICR currently consists of the following fi ve The strong collaboration basis so far constructed in-house research divisions: Division of Synthetic Chemistry, Division of and also with outside ensures our institute to serve as the core of Materials Chemistry, Division of Biochemistry, Division of Environ- global research propellers in chemistry-oriented fi elds. Fortu- mental Chemistry, and Division of Multidisciplinary Chemistry as nately, the four-year quakeproof renovation of the main buildings well as the following three research centers: Advanced Research in Uji campus has just been completed at the end of 2010 together Center for Beam Science, International Research Center for with the establishment of a new lecture hall “Uji Obaku Plaza” in Elements Science (IRCELS), and Bioinformatics Center. Today, 2009. With these highly improved research/education facilities, ICR spans 32 research fi elds (laboratories) with 99 faculty we are further activating ourselves to attain our founding philoso- members and about 240 graduate students. Each laboratory phy. Thus, we respectfully request your continued support and belongs to one of the seven graduate schools which encompass encouragement. science, engineering, pharmaceutical science, a griculture, medi- cine, informatics, human and environmental studies. Our labora- January 2011 tories and the graduate schools work together to provide excellent graduate education. ICR strives to be the “central research center in chemistry” by achieving outstanding results in chemistry and related fi elds, and attracting motivated researchers in these fi elds. Chemistry is a fundamental science, which deals with materials, and its importance, including its contribution to physics and TOKITOH, Norihiro biology, cannot be overemphasiz ed. One of our major strengths is Director iii ICR News 2010 Joint Usage/Research Center: Frontier/Interdisciplinary Research Core in ICR for Deepening Investigation and Promoting Cooperation in Chemistry-Oriented Fields Prof WATANABE, Hiroshi (Vice-Director of ICR) Institute for Chemical Research (ICR) has been functioning, since April 2010, as the Joint Usage/Research Center (JURC) to deepen the investigation and promote the cooperation in chemistry-oriented fi elds. 68 joint research subjects have been adopted this year; please see p.67 for details. Several frontier instruments, including 800MHz Multi-purpose Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer and Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometer, have been newly equipped and utilized in the cooperative researches, and a man- agement offi ce for those common-use instruments has been also organized. The activity of JURC/ ICR will bring a breakthrough into the global researches in the chemistry-oriented fi elds. The management offi ce for the common-use instruments Versatile Super-High Field Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Mass Spectrometer with 7.05 T Super This 800 MHz NMR can be Conducting Magnet (FT-ICR-Mass) used both for solution- and solid- A Bruker Daltonics SolariX Qq-FT-ICR Mass Spec- state measurements. 5 mmφ mul- trometer, equipped with ESI, APCI, and MALDI ion sources tinuclear double-resonance probe, with CID, ECD, and 5 mmφ inverse detection triple- ETD fragmentation, resonance probe, 10 mmφ multi- enables ultra-high res- nuclear double-resonance probe, olution (FWHM max triple-resonance CP/MAS probe, >1,000,000) and ultra- and high spinning speed CP/MAS high sensitivity (100 probe are available. atmol) mass spectro- metry measurements. iv Division of Multidisciplinary Chemistry, Interdisciplinary