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Professor KOBIRO Kazuya


Year of birth Gender Male
Affiliation School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Material and Life Systems Engineering Course, Department of Engineering, Graduate School of Enginering
Environmental Systems Engineering Course, Department of Engineering, Graduate School of Enginering
Laboratory for Structural Nanochemistry, Research Institute
Center for Nanotechnology, Research Institute
Research Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Research Institute
Job titles Head, Laboratory for Structural Nanochemistry
Personal web site http://www.env.kochi-tech.ac.jp/kobiro/external/

Areas of specialization
Laboratory/research office Organic-inorganic Hybrid Material Chemistry Laboratory
Our laboratory studies the development of organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials (one of the most promising families of functional materials) and also high-throughput and high-efficiency synthetic methods for their synthesis. Our applied research is aimed at the development of applications of these materials in materials as catalysts, catalyst supports, photocatalysts, absorbents, storage and slow release materials, nano-ink for forgery prevention, cosmetics, and electrode materials for secondary batteries; and in processes such as drug and gene delivery.
Current reseach topics
Educational background
Professional background 1997-: 
1993-: 
1991-: 
1984-: 
Licenses
Academic societies

Courses  * Courses provided in English are shown with (E) mark

Undergraduate school ▼

Seminar 2
Seminar 3
Graduation Thesis
Instrument Analysis
Chemical Experiments
Outline of Engineering
Chemical Exercise
Organic Chemistry 3
Organic Chemistry 1

Graduate school ▼

Seminar 1
Seminar 2
Seminar 3
Seminar 4
Individual Work for Graduate
Advanced Seminar 1
Advanced Seminar 2

Research activities

Research papers ▼

  1. Authors: Masataka OHTANI, Kazutaka Takase, Pengyu WANG, Kouki HIGASHI, Kimiyoshi UENO, Nobuhiro YASUDA, Kunihisa SUGIMOTO, Mamoru FURUTA, Kazuya KOBIRO
    Title: Water-triggered macroscopic structural transformation of a metal-organic framework
    Journal: CrystEngComm, Vol. 18, pp. 1866-1870, Royal Society of Chemistry
    Year: 2016/02/15
  2. Authors: Duriyasart Farkfun, Hiromu Hamauzu, OHTANI Masataka, KOBIRO Kazuya
    Title: Three-Dimensionally Branched Titanium Dioxide with Cheek-Brush Morphology: Synthesis and its Application to Polymer Composites
    Journal: ChemistrySelect, Vol. 1, pp. 5121-5128
    Year: 2016
  3. Authors: Ellawala Kankanamge Chandima Pradeep, OHTANI Masataka, KOBIRO Kazuya
    Title: A Simple Synthetic Approach to Al2O3–TiO2 and ZnO– TiO2 Mesoporous Hollow Composite Assemblies Consisting of Homogeneously Mixed Primary Particles at the Nano Level
    Journal: Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. , pp. 5621-5627, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Year: 2015/11
  4. Authors: Ellawala Kankanamge Chandima Pradeep, Teppei Habu, Hiroko Tohriyama, OHTANI Masataka, KOBIRO, Kazuya
    Title: Ultra-simple synthetic approach to the fabrication of CeO2-ZrO2 mixed nanoparticles into homogeneous, domain, and core-shell structures in mesoporous spherical morphologies using supercritical alcohols
    Journal: J. Supercrit. Fluids, Vol. 97, pp. 217-223, Elsevier
    Year: 2015
  5. Authors: OHTANI Masataka, Yuki Okimoto, Yuya Ohishi, Wang Pengyu, KOBIRO, Kazuya
    Title: Insight into alcohol reduction by saccharides and their homologues in supercritical water via aldehyde-mediated radical formation
    Journal: J. Supercritical Fluids, Elsevier
    Year: 2015
  6. Authors: Wang, Pengyu, Tohriyama, Hiroko , Yokoyama, Kazuya, OHTANI, Masataka, ASAHARA,Haruyasu, KONISHI, Tomoya, NISHIWAKI, Nagatoshi, SHIMODA, Masahiko, YAMASHITA, Yoshiyuki, YOSHIKAWA, Hideki, KOBIRO, Kazuya
    Title: Smart Decoration of Mesoporous TiO2 Nanospheres with Noble Metal Alloy Nanoparticles into Core–Shell, Yolk–Core–Shell, and Surface-Dispersion Morphologies
    Journal: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 2014, pp. 4254-4257, Wiley
    Year: 2014/08/15
  7. Authors: Wang Pengyu, KOBIRO, Kazuya
    Title: Synthetic versatility of nanoparticles: A new, rapid, one-pot, single-step synthetic approach to spherical mesoporous (metal) oxide nanoparticles using supercritical alcohols
    Journal: Pure and Applied Chemistry, Vol. 86, No. 5, pp. 785-800
    Year: 2014/05
  8. Authors: ASAHARA,Haruyasu, Yuki Kuribayashi, Wang Pengyu, KOBIRO, Kazuya, NISHIWAKI, Nagatoshi
    Title: An Effect of Microwave Irradiation on Pd/SiC Catalyst for Prolonging the Catalytic Life
    Journal: Current Microwave Chemistry, Vol. 1, pp. 142-147
    Year: 2014
  9. Authors: Le Thi Song, ASAHARA,Haruyasu, KOBIRO, Kazuya, SUGIMOTO,Ryuichi, SAIGO, Kazuhiko, NISHIWAKI, Nagatoshi
    Title: Synthesis of 2-Aryl-5-nitropyridines by Three Component Ring Transformation of 3,5-Dinitro-2-pyridone
    Journal: Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry , Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 297-302, Wiley
    Year: 2014
  10. Authors: NISHIWAKI, Nagatoshi, HIRAO, Shotaro, SAWAYAMA, Jun, ASAHARA,Haruyasu, SUGIMOTO,Ryuichi, KOBIRO, Kazuya, SAIGO, Kazuhiko
    Title: Synthesis of Vicinally Functionalized 1,4-Dihydropyridines and Diazabicycles via a Pseudo-Intramolecular Process
    Journal: Tetrahedron, Vol. 70, pp. 402-408
    Year: 2014
  11. Authors: HOU Liyuan, Wang Pengyu, KONG Fantao, PARK,Hyun-Sun, KOBIRO, Kazuya, OHAMA, Takeshi
    Title: Mesoporous TiO2 nanoparticles: a new material for biolistic bombardment
    Journal: Phycol. Res, Vol. 61, pp. 58-60
    Year: 2013/01/10
  12. Authors: HOJO, Masashi, OHTA, Sho, AYABE, Keita, OKAMURA, Kei, KOBIRO, Kazuya, CHEN, Zhidong
    Title: Coordination ability of alkali metal or alkaline earth metal ions with aromatic dicarboxylate, sulfonate, or disulfonate ions in acetonitrile
    Journal: J. MOl. Liq., Vol. 177, pp. 145-155
    Year: 2013/01
  13. Authors: CHEN Xin, KOBIRO, Kazuya, ASAHARA,Haruyasu, Kakiuchi, Kiyomi, SUGIMOTO,Ryuichi, SAIGO, Kazuhiko, NISHIWAKI, Nagatoshi
    Title: Reactive 2-Quinolones Dearomatized by Steric Repulsion between 1-Methyl and 8-Substited Groups
    Journal: Tetrahedron, Vol. 69, No. 23, pp. 4624-4630
    Year: 2013
  14. Authors: KOBIRO, Kazuya, Kana Sumoto, Yuki Okimoto, Wang Pengyu
    Title: Saccharides as New Hydrogen Sources for One-pot and Single-step Reduction of Alcohols and Catalytic Hydrogenation of Olefins in Supercritical Water
    Journal: J. Supercrit. Fluids, Vol. 77, pp. 63-69, Elsevier
    Year: 2013
  15. Authors: NISHIWAKI, Nagatoshi, SUGIMOTO,Ryuichi, SAIGO, Kazuhiko, KOBIRO, Kazuya
    Title: Mechanistic Aspect of Ring Transformations in the Reaction of 5-Nitro-4-pyrimidinone with Acetophenone Derivatives and Cycloalkanones Depending on the Electron Density / Ring Size of the Ketone
    Journal: Tetrahedron Letters, Vol. 54, No. 8, pp. 956-959
    Year: 2013
  16. Authors: Wang Pengyu, Hikaru Takigawa, Kimiyoshi Ueno, Kobiro Kazuya
    Title: Versatility of One-pot, Single-step Synthetic Approach for Spherical Porous (Metal) Oxide Nanoparticles Using Supercritical Alcohols
    Journal: J. Supercrit. Fluids, Vol. 78, pp. 124-131
    Year: 2013
  17. Authors: Wang Pengyu, Kazuya Yokoyama, Tomoya Konishi, Nagatoshi Nishiwaki, Kazuya Kobiro
    Title: Ultimately Simple One-pot Single-step Synthesis of Rare Earth Doped Spherical Mesoporous Metal Oxide Nanospheres with Upconversion Emission Ability in Supercritical Methanol
    Journal: J. Supercrit. Fluids, Vol. 80, pp. 71-77
    Year: 2013
  18. Authors: Jacob Schneider, Hongfei Jia, KOBIRO, Kazuya, Diane E. Cabelli, James T. Muckerman
    Title: Nickel(II) macrocycles: highly efficient electrocatalysts for the selective reduction of CO2 to CO
    Journal:  Energy Environ. Sci., Vol. 5, pp. 9502-9510, RSC Publishing
    Year: 2012/08/08
  19. Authors: Wang Pengyu, KOBIRO, Kazuya
    Title: Ultimately Simple One-Pot Synthesis of Spherical Mesoporous TiO2 Nanoparticles in Supercritical Methanol
    Journal: Chem. Lett., Vol. 41, pp. 264-266
    Year: 2012/02
  20. Authors: HIRAO, Shotaro, KOBIRO, Kazuya, SAWAYAMA, Jun, SAIGO, Kazuhiko, NISHIWAKI, Nagatoshi
    Title: Ring Construction via Pseudo-Intramolecular Hydrazonation Using Bifunctional δ-Keto Nitrile
    Journal: Tetrahedron Letters, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 82-85
    Year: 2012
  21. Authors: CHEN Xin, Kana Sumoto, Tetuya Yamagami, Kazuya Yokoyama, Wang Pengyu, HIRAO, Shotaro, NISHIWAKI, Nagatoshi, KOBIRO, Kazuya
    Title: One-step and Non-catalytic Intramolecular Redox Reactions of Conjugated All E-Dienals to Non-conjugated Z-Enoic Acids in Subcritical Water
    Journal: The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, Vol. 62, pp. 178-183
    Year: 2012
  22. Authors: NISHIWAKI, Nagatoshi, KOBIRO, Kazuya, HIRAO, Shotaro, SAWAYAMA, Jun, SAIGO, Kazuhiko, ISE, Yumiko, NISHIZAWA, Maho, ARIGA, Masahiro
    Title: One-Step Synthesis of Differently Bis-Functionalized Isoxazoles by Cycloaddition of Carbamoylnitrile Oxide with β-Keto Esters
    Journal: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Vol. 10, pp. 1987-1991
    Year: 2012
  23. Authors: Wang Pengyu, KOBIRO, Kazuya
    Title: Subcritical Water Assisted Clean Cross-Aldol Reactions
    Journal: J. Chem. Eng. Jpn., Vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 577-582
    Year: 2011/08
  24. Authors: Taishi Wada, Masumi Yamashita, Xin Zheng, Xiaohong Hou, Kazuya Kobiro
    Title: Heteroassociation of Anions with Acidic Functionalities in Acetonitrile
    Journal: Bulletin of the Chemical Society Japan
    Year: 2011/01/28
  25. Authors: NISHIWAKI, Nagatoshi, KOBIRO, Kazuya, HIRAO, Shotaro, SAWAYAMA, Jun, SAIGO, Kazuhiko, Yoshikazu Okajima, Toshiharu Uehara, Asaka Maki, Masahiro Ariga
    Title: An Anomalous Hydration/Dehydration Sequence for the Mild Generation of a Nitrile Oxide
    Journal: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Vol. 9, pp. 2832-2839
    Year: 2011
  26. Authors: NISHIWAKI, Nagatoshi, HIRAO, Shotaro, SAWAYAMA, Jun, SAIGO, Kazuhiko, KOBIRO, Kazuya
    Title: Bicyclization Involving Pseudo-Intramolecular Imination with Diamines
    Journal: Chemical Communications, Vol. 47, pp. 4938-4940
    Year: 2011
  27. Authors: NISHIWAKI, Nagatoshi, KOBIRO, Kazuya, SAWAYAMA, Jun, HIRAO, Shotaro, SAIGO, Kazuhiko, ISE, Yumiko, OKAJIMA, Yoshikazu, ARIGA, Masahiro
    Title: Inverse Electron-Demand 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of Nitrile Oxide with Common Nitriles Leading to 3-Functionalized 1,2,4-Oxadiazoles
    Journal: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Vol. 9, pp. 6750-6754
    Year: 2011
  28. Authors: Wang Pengyu, KOBIRO, Kazuya
    Title: Simple, non-catalytic permethylation of catechol derivatives in subcritical and supercritical water
    Journal: J. Supercrit. Fluids, Vol. 58, pp. 360-364, Elsevier
    Year: 2011
  29. Authors: Nagatoshi Nishiwaki, Kazuya Kobiro
    Title: One-Step Construction of 6-Aza-2-thiabicyclo[3.3.1]nona-3,7-diene Framework
    Journal: Heterocycles, Vol. 81, pp. 2139-2142
    Year: 2010
  30. Authors: Pengyu Wang, Xuetang Shi, Koichi Kataoka, Yasuhide Maeda, Kazuya Kobiro
    Title: Non-catalytic Oppenauer Oxidation of Alcohols in Supercritical Water
    Journal: The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, Vol. 52, pp. 222-227
    Year: 2010
  31. Authors: Kazuya Kobiro, Masahiko Matsura, Hiroyuki Kojima, Koichi Nakahara
    Title: The first observation of radical species in subcritical water
    Journal: Tetrahedron, Vol. 65, pp. 807-810
    Year: 2009
  32. Authors: Xiaohong Hou, Taishi Wada, Sayaka Gion, Kazuya Kobiro
    Title: A Strategy of Visible Anion Recognition by Simple Polycyclic Aromatic Acid
    Journal: Chem. Lett., Vol. 37, pp. 274-275
    Year: 2008
  33. Authors: Pengyu Wang, Hiroyuki Kojima, Kazuya Kobiro, Koichi Nakahara, Toshihiko Arita, Okitsugu Kajimoto
    Title: Reaction Behavior of Secondary Alcohols in Supercritical Water
    Journal: Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, Vol. 80, No. 9, pp. 1828-1832
    Year: 2007
  34. Authors: Xiaohong Hou, Kazuya Kobiro
    Title: 4-(N,N-Dimethylamino)benzoic Acid as A New Class of Simple Chromogenic and Fluorogenic Anion Host Exhibiting High Selectivity to HPO42- and SO42-
    Journal: Chem. Lett., Vol. 35, pp. 116-117
    Year: 2006
  35. Authors:  Xiaohong Hou, Kazuya Kobiro
    Title: Versatility of an Intermolecularly Hydrogenbonded 4-(N,N-Dimethylamino)benzoate Group as A Signaling Subunit for Anion Recognition
    Journal: Tetrahedron, Vol. 61, pp. 5866-5875
    Year: 2005
  36. Authors: Kazuya Kobiro, Yoshihisa Inoue
    Title: A New Chiral Probe for Sulfate Anion: UV, CD, Fluorescence, and NMR Spectral Studies of 1:1 and 2:1 Complex Formation and Structure of Chiral Guanidinium-p-Dimethylaminobenzote
    Journal: J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 125, pp. 421-427
    Year: 2003

Keynote lectures ▼

  1. Synthesis of Three-dimensionally Branched TiO2 Crosslinker for Hydrogel, IUPAC 12th International Confernece on Novel Materials and their Synthesis, Changsha, China, 2016/10/14
  2. , 2016/07/09
  3. , 2015/10/11

Invited lectures ▼

Notable projects ▼

Awards ▼

  1. Latest EditorinChief’s Featured Articles, Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2015
  2. Distinguished Award 2014 for Novel Materials and their Synthesis, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2014

Patents ▼

  1. Process for Production of Hydrogen and Carbonyl Compounds by Reacting Sub- or Super-critical Water with Alcohols, Application 10/510,972, Publication US200501542347(A1), Registration US7,166,753 B2

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese government ▼

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