Nokami Lab

Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology &

Centre for Research on Green Sustainable Chemistry

Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University

Let's create our Bright Future by

synthetic organic chemistry

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October 3

Raja joined the group as a PhD student.

He immediately started training as a crepe baker for the University festival on October 12-14.

He was looking bright future in Japan.

Now, he is studying hard...

September 21

We celebrated 70 years anniversary of Emeritus Professor Toshiyuki Itoh in Tottori.

More than 50 participants from all over the country joined the joint reunion of the Itoh group and the Nokami group. Thank you for coming. We always welcome former members of the both groups🥰

Emer. Prof. Toshiyuki Itoh, Forever Young 70😳

September 5

Dr. Yosuke Ashikari delivered his GSC seminar.

The state-of-art micro-flow chemisty in the Nagaki group at Hokkaido University was introduced💥

Dr. Ashikari with the group members😃

September 3

Raja will join the group as a PhD student.

We are looking forward to working with him soon😉

August 16

The department is looking for the faculty member of Catalysis/Organic Chemistry📢

Recruitment information is available in the website of the faculty of Engineering⚙️

July 27

The conceptual drawing of our collaborative research has been selected as a cover artwork of the journal📚 

The drawing shows photochemical activation of glycosyl bromide by aryl amine catalyst and LED light. The robot arm picks up the photo-irradiated glycosyl bromide, which is surrounded by multi-component coupling products. See the details...

Automated Photochemical Synthesizer?😅

June 19

The department is looking for the full professor of Organic Chemistry📢

Recruitment information is available in the website of the faculty of Engineering⚙️

June 15

We were the 6th place in the annual softball competition of the department🥎

Faculty members joined the games to give a handicap😆

Yuki is missing in the group picture🎽

May 31

Professor Emeritus Toshiyuki Itoh visited the group.

He is looking forward to seeing former members of the group in the reunion2024.

May 29

We will contribute to The Chemistry Exhibition 2024 in Tottori🐪🐪🐪

This is an annual event of the Chugoku-Shikoku branch of the CSJ🧪

The local organizer: Professor Naonobu Katada (Tottori University)

The same exhibit in 2015😆

May 13

Professor Sébastien Thibaudeau (University of Poitiers, France) delivered wonderful lecture👏

April 22

The joint-reunion of the Itoh group and the Nokami group will be held on 21st September in Tottori to celebrate 70 years of age of Professor Emeritus Toshiyuki Itoh.

Former and current members of the groups will receive the invitation E-mail in early May📧

If you have not received the E-mail yet, you can access the registration form from here.

March 18

1 PhD, 3 master, and 5 bachelor students left the group🎓

We wish your success and happiness🤗

March 8

Prof. Yamasaki gave a wonderful talk for students😉

He is the author of Dr. Ponkotsu😅

March 7

We heartly welcome new bachelor students to the group😊

We will spend this year in persuit of the excellent chemistry🧪👩‍❤️‍👩💑👨‍❤️‍👨🧪

March 6

Prof. Ali and his MS student from Bangladesh visited our group. Prof. Ifuku who hosted them arranged the lab-tours.

Thank you for visiting🤗 Thank you, Tomoaki😉

February 23

Azad will move to Ishikawa to join JAIST as a postdoctoral researcher👨🏽‍🔬

Thank you for choosing Tottori University for your PhD study. Tottori is your hometwon in Japan🐪

February 21

Erika and Shoma show up on the cover picture of the Tottori University magazine "Fu-Mon" vol. 80

Erika is smiling😊 Shoma is looking far away🥺

February 19

Hiryu and Tomo-aki won the department chair award for the presentations of their bachelor theses. 

We are proud of you. Congratulations🏆🏆 

December 22

Prof. Yousuke Ooyama showed new directions of functional organic dyes in his GSC seminar🚀  

He talked over 10 hours for the special class of chemistry and biotechnology in the snow⛄

December 22

Yu has made significant progress of his research as shown in the group seminor👏

We expect further progress of our research in the next several months✊

December 15

Hirofumi converted his 4 months stay at the Baran group to the publication😲 

Hirofumi did what he promised before leaving Tottori👏

December 4

Naoya presented his recent study on photochemical C-glycosylations in the regional chemistry symposium organized by Prof. Naonobu Katada.

The "神大うりぼー" wild boar is an official character of Kobe University where Prof. Minoru Mizuhata belongs to🐗 

The offichial character of Tottori University is "とりりん" mandarin duck🐤

 🐗Mizuhata prize winner🏆

December 2

We joined the 43rd ekiden competition in the Koyama campus of Tottori University. (3.3 Km for men, 2.8 Km for wemen)

Five representatives of the gruop including two faculty members were running around the campus in the cold rainy weather☔

We are athletic chemists💨

November 29

Prof. Aiichiro Nagaki of Hokkaido University delivered his brilliant talk in the GSC seminar.

He showed how flow-microreactors will change the way to produce organic molecules😏

November 24

We are practicing for the running event besides our chemical research😅

Sachiko Yamashita, 4th place in the women's marathon of the1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, is a  graduate of Tottori University😲

October 7~8

Thank you for visiting our crepe shop🎉

So many people including former students of the Itoh group and current members of the department visited us 😉

📷Photo courtesy of Prof. Katada 📷

September 29

We will serve tasty crepe during the University Festival 7-8 October, 2023.

You can enojy the taste of intensive research and training of making delicious crepe😋

September 20

Hirofumi came back safely from La Jolla🌵 and started working in Tottori🐫

We have no words to thank Prof. Phil S. Baran, Dr. Yu Kawamata, TSRI, and JSPS🙇

September 10

The Tottori Carbohydrate Week (5th-10th September) has successfully ended 🦀🐫🐪

Masaki won the poster prize in the 7th FCCA Symposium/Forum of Young Glycoscientists 2023.

Masa showed our school pride. Congratulations🏆 

🏀What a super shot!🏀

September 8

🦀🐫We are in the middle of the Carbohydrate Week of Tottori🐫🦀

Prof. Shinsuke Ifuku organized the 37th annual meeting of the JSCC.

Prof. Jun-ichi Tamura is organizing the 42th annual meeting of the JSCR.

Dr. Khoki Fujikawa will organize the Forum of Young Glycoscientists.

Please visit "Past News" as well. This item is frequently updated. 

 Research Projects

© The Bureau of Tottori Shan Shan Festival 

Molecular Glycoscience

Carbohydrates are one of the most abundant organic molecules. We are interested in chemical synthesis and biological applications of oligosaccharides, although synthetic chemistry of sugar is not so sweet... [Learn More]

Organic Electrochemistry

Most of organic molecules are reactive under the electrochemical conditions; however, numbers of useful methods for selective transformations of the specific functional group in the molecule are still limited. [Learn More]

Functional Ionic Liquids

Ionic liquids are unique salts composed of organic cation and/or anion. Their properties can be controlled by changing their combination and structures.[Learn More]

New Projects

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FROM the BEGINNING TO the PUBLICATION

Group Picture 2022

We welcome undergraduate, graduate student, postdoc, visiting scholar, and student from all over the world. April 2019 Toshiki Nokami succeeded the group leader from Professor Toshiyuki Itoh (Emeritus Professor of Tottori University). Now the group consists of 8 undergraduate students, 7 graduate students including 1 doctoral candidate, and 2 faculty members. 

We offer one PhD position from April or October 2025. Please contact Nokami, if you are interested in the PhD program of our school. We are looking for a highly motivated and dedicated student especially from Asian countries.

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