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SUMMARY:Design of Ionic Liquids for Chemical Reactions and Materials Scienc
 es
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20199201T000000
UID:2026-05-04-23-51-01@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260504T235101
Description:About the Seminar:\n\nIonic liquids (ILs) have attracted growin
 g interest among the various fields of science and technology because of t
 heir characteristics\, such as less-volatility\, less-flammability\, high 
 ion conductivity\, and unique solubility towards many organic and inorgani
 c compounds [1]. We have been investigating the possibility of ILs for bot
 h the materials sciences and organic syntheses for over two decades in ten
  fields illustrated in Figure 1\, such as reaction media for enzymatic rea
 ctions or transition metal-catalyzed reactions\, dissolving agents of cell
 ulose and lignin\, lubricants\, electrolyte for lithium ion batteries\, ag
 ents for improved performances of conducting-bridge random access memory (
 CB-RAM) etc. Among these topics\, I will speak focus on two topics in diff
 erent fields\, i.e.\, (1) activation of enzymatic reactions [2] and (2) im
 proved performance of a next generation memory device CB-RAM using the IL 
 engineering [3].\n\n\n\nFigure 1. Ten Research projects of the Itoh\\'s gr
 oup using ionic liquids\n\nReferences\n[1] Hallett\, J. P.\; Welton\, T. C
 hem. Rev. 2011\, 111\, 3508.\n[2] Itoh\, T. Chem. Rev. 2017\, 117\, 10567\
 ; Nishihara\, T.\; Shiomi\, A.\; Kadotani\, S.\; Nokami\, T.\; Itoh\, T. G
 reen Chem. 2017\, 19\, 5250\; Kadotani\, S.\; Inagaki\, R.\; Nishihara\, T
 .\; Nokami\, T.\; Itoh\, T. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2017\, 5\, 8541\; K
 adotani\, S.\; Nokami\, T.\; Itoh\, T. Tetrahedron\, 2019\, 75\, 441-447.\
 n[3] Harada\, A.\; Yamaoka\, H.\; Ogata\, R.\; Watanabe\, K.\; Kinoshita\,
  K.\; Kishida\, S.\; Nokami\, T.\; Itoh\, T.\, J. Mater. Chem. C\, 2015\, 
 3\, 6966\; Harada\, A.\; Yamaoka\, H.\; Tojo\, S.\; Watanabe\, K.\; Sakagu
 chi\, A.\; Kinoshita\, K.\; Kishida\, S.\; Fukaya\, Y.\; Matsumoto\, K.\; 
 Hagiwara\, R.\; Sakaguchi\, H.\; Nokami\, T.\; Itoh\, T. J. Mater. Chem. C
 \, 2016\, 4\, 7215\; Yamaoka\, H.\; Yamashita\, T.\; Harada\, A.\; Sakaguc
 hi\, A.\; Kinoshita\, K.\; Kishida\, S.\; Hayase\, S.\; Nokami\, T.\; Itoh
 \, T. Chem. Lett. 2017\, 46\, 1832.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nAbout the Speaker:\n\nPr
 ofessor Toshiyuki Itoh was born in Matsusaka city\, Mie\, Japan\, in 1954.
  He graduated Tokyo University of Education in 1976. After working as a ch
 emistry teacher in high schools in Mie prefecture\, he decided to go back 
 to the University and received his Ph.D. degree in 1986 from the Universit
 y of Tokyo. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Okayama University in 
 1987\, then promoted to Associate Professor in 1990. He worked with Profes
 sor Anthony G. M. Barrett as a visiting scholar at Colorado State Universi
 ty in 1990-1991 and moved to Tottori University in 2002\, where he was pro
 moted to full Professor in 2004 and retired March 2019. He is recipient of
  the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan Award (2010) and the 8th
  Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award (2009). He served as President of t
 he Society of Fluorine Chemistry\, Japan (2013~2015)\, a director of the C
 hemical Society of Japan (2016~2018)\, and the representative of the manag
 ing committee of the Ionic Liquids Research Association\, Japan (2014 ~ 20
 17). 4:00 pm
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