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Kento Taniguchi, Department of Applied Chemistry, won a Best Poster Award at 46th Symposium on Chemical and Biological Oxidation

 

Kento Taniguchi, Department of Applied Chemistry, won a Best Poster Award at 46th Symposium on Chemical and Biological Oxidation.

 

 

<About awarded research>

Silyl isocyanates have been utilized as silane coupling and surface finishing agents. Up to the present, silyl isocyanates have been synthesized using chlorosilanes and metal cyanates. However, this antiquated procedure has the following disadvantages; toxic and moisture-sensitive chlorosilanes and expensive metal cyanates are utilized as starting materials, stoichiometric amounts of metal salts are formed as wastes, and the atom efficiency is low. Thus, the development of efficient catalytic synthetic procedures using alternative starting materials is highly desirable.

  In this study, we have successfully developed a novel green synthetic route to silyl isocyanates through gold-catalyzed acceptorless cross-dehydrogenative coupling of hydrosilanes and isocyanic acid obtained by the in situ thermolysis of urea. This reaction is expected as an alternative green synthetic procedure for silyl isocyanates.

 

<Comments>

I feel honored to receive this award. I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisors, Prof. Dr. Noritaka Mizuno, Associate Prof. Dr. Kazuya Yamaguchi, and also all lab members. I will make a full effort to tackle my research.