Academic Staff and Fellows

SUDO Atsushi
Professor Doctor of Engineering
Department/Energy and Materials 
Department of Energy and Materials
Graduate school/Molecular and Material Engineering

Aiming to develop materials that contribute to the achievement of the SDGs, we are researching polymer synthesis using natural compounds as raw materials and polymer synthesis using reactions that proceed with visible light irradiation.

Environmentally friendly synthesis of high-performance polymers

Research Area Polymer Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Teaching (Undergraduate Course) Introduction to Energy and Materials, Introduction to Chemistry for Energy and Materials, Chemistry of Energy and Materials 1, Chemistry of Energy and Materials 2, Experiments in Fundamental Chemistry, Experiments in Biology for Energy and Materials, Polymer Materials Engineering
Research Interests Synthesis of polymers bearing rigid skeletons from naturally occurring cyclic polyols
Development of carbon-carbon bond forming reactions using photoredox catalysis
Selected Publications (1)“Visible-Light-Driven Reductive Coupling of Aromatic Ketones Using Perylene Derivatives as Photoredox Catalysts: Improvement of Reaction Efficiency by the Addition of Acetic Acid” Ito, H. and Sudo, A. Results in Chemistry 2021, 3, 100123.

(2) “Synthesis of partially bio‐based triepoxides from naturally occurring myo-inositol and their polyadditions” Shimokawaji, T.; Sudo, A. J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 58(9), 1229-1235.

(3) “Synthesis of oligo(spiroketal)s by polycondensation of silyl ethers derived from naturally occurring myo-inositol with 1,4-cyclohexanedione” Sudo, A.; Yamasaki, T.; Yamashita, T.; Ishida, D. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2019, 57(24), 2407-2414.
Research and Achievements
Education
(Undergraduate Course)
BE from the University of Tokyo
Education
(Master's/Doctral Course)
ME and DE from the University of Tokyo
Title of Thesis, Institute, Date Development and Application of New Artificial Chiral Auxiliaries, The University of Tokyo, March 1997
Biography Assistant Professor, Research Laboratory of Chemical Resources, Tokyo Institute of Technology (1997); Lecturer, Molecular Engineering Institute, Kindai University (2002); Associate Professor, Molecular Engineering Institute, Kindai University (2006); Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University (2011); Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University (2016)

Polymer Synthesis Laboratory

E-mail asudo(at)emat.kindai.ac.jp
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Academic Staff and Fellows