Mr. MURATA Yusuke receives The 24th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry Best Poster Award
Category：Award｜Publishing : September 4, 2024
Award winner
Mr. MURATA Yusuke, Life and Applied Chemistry Program, Department of Engineering
The 24th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry Best Poster Award
（The 24th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry）
Award-winning research
"Transition-Metal-Free Regio- and Stereoselective Nucleophilic Addition of F, N, O-Nucleophiles to SF4- and SF5-alkynes"
SF5 and SF4 group are gathering considerable attention due to their unique characteristics such as high electronegativity, high lipophilicity and steric bulkiness. In addition, SF4 group would be an attractive bioisostere of p−substituted benzene since it has a non-conjugated linear structure. Recently, the environmental toxicity of organofluorine compounds consisting of C−F bond has become a global matter. Against this background, SF5 and SF4 group are expected to be alternative to them. In this research, we discovered SF5− and SF4−alkynes readily react with nucleophiles and developed synthetic methods of SF4−enamine, SF4−vinyl ether, SF4−vinyl fluoride and SF5−vinyl fluoride.
Award winner's comments
It is a great honor for me to receive the award in ISFC, one of the largest conferences on fluorine chemistry. I would like to express my gratitude to Prof. Shibata for supervising my work, Assoc. Prof. Sumii for giving me a lot of advice, Mr. Hada for working on the project together and the other colleagues in Shibata group. And I appreciate financial support from NITech Fund International Conference Travel Grant. I will continue to strive for innovation in organofluorine chemistry.
