Michael Faraday’s report on the isolation of “bi-carburet of hydrogen (benzene)” was read on June 16, 1825. On this day, we celebrated the 200th anniversary of his great discovery having “something hexagonal”! We also celebrated the 160th anniversary of Kekulé’s benzene and the 40th anniversary of fullerene discovery by Curl, Kroto and Smalley. A great […]

We had a group seminar and enjoyed our chemistry with Professor J. Ichikawa!  

“Dr.” Toshiya Fukunaga has finally received his certificate of his Ph.D. degree. Congratulations!!! For his contribution, he got the 4p1A orbital of the Isobe group! On May 1st, we also celebrated the 18th anniversary of the group and “something special” to be announced in the future (with some guests)!

We visited “Dr. Ritter” at Yanaka and had a lunch under beautiful cherry blossoms (Sakura).

“Dr.” Seungmin Yang and “Dr.” Misato Akiyoshi have successfully finished the Ph.D. defense. Congratulations!!! They received the 3d2B and 4p0 orbitals of our group (15th and 16th Ph.D.).

Our work has just been featured on a cover of Chemical Science.https://doi.org/10.1039/d5sc90041g

We enjoyed Imoni on a sunny autumn day.

Professor Hiroyuki Isobe delivered the IOCB Invited Lecture at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB) of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

We had a group seminar (TENGU seminar) at Mt. Takao. We enjoyed an excellent time of chemistry and fire ritual.

Professor Hiroyuki Isobe delivered “The Gilbert Stork Lecture” at Columbia University.