The New World of Organic Chemistry Using Water as a Solvent

该项目名为“以水为溶剂的有机化学新世界”，旨在创造以水为溶剂的新有机化学。本研究包括六个不同角度的主题，包括水中催化不对称反应的发展、新型催化剂的开发和水中新型碳-碳键形成反应等。因此，发现了在有机溶剂中而不是在水中观察到的独特的反应活性和选择性，并发现金属氧化物和金属氢氧化物在水中对几个有用的合成反应起到了有效的催化剂作用。此外，在100%的水中实现了碳-碳键形成反应的不对称催化，从而使“水中有机化学”取得了长足的进步。

This project, "The New World of Organic Chemistry Using Water as a Solvent," aims creation of new Organic Chemistry based on the use of water as a solvent. This study contains six subthemes with different angles including development of catalytic asymmetric reactions in water, development of novel catalysts and novel carbon-carbon bonding forming reactions in water, and so on. As a result, unique reactivities and selectivities, which are observed not in organic solvents but in water, have been revealed, and it was found that metal oxides and metal hydroxides worked as efficient catalysts in water for several useful synthetic reactions. Furthermore, asymmetric catalysis for carbon-carbon bonding forming reactions has been attained in 100% water, and thus, "Organic Chemistry in Water" has been greatly progressed.