Academic Staff and Fellows

OTA Kei: Assistant Professor Ph.D.; Department/Applied Chemistry

Research Area	Organic chemistry/Main group element/Silicon/Boron
Selected Publications	(1) “A Crystalline B4N2 Dewar Benzene as a Building Block for Conjugated B,N-Chains” Ota, K., Kinjo, R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 11152 – 11159. (2) “Aromatic Nature of Neutral and Dianionic 1,4-diaza-2,3,5,6-tetraborinine Derivatives” Ota, K.,Kinjo, R. RSC. Adv. 2020, 11, 592 – 598. (3) “Neutral and Aromatic Boron‐rich Inorganic Benzene” Ota, K., Kinjo, R. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 6572 - 6575.
Research and Achievements	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8453-084X
Affiliated Academic Societies	The Society of Silicon Chemistry, Japan/ The Chemical Society of Japan
Education (Undergraduate Course)	College of Chemistry, School of Science an Engineering, University of Tsukuba
Education (Master's/Doctral Course)	Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), SINGAPORE
Title of Thesis, Institute, Date	Study of the aromatic boron rich inorganic benzene and its isomers, NTU (Sep. 2021)
Biography	Aug. 2017-Mar. 2021 Singapore International Graduate Award (NTU), Mar. 2021-Sep. 2021 Part-time student assistant (NTU), Oct. 2021-Mar. 2022 Research fellow (NTU)
Awards	(1) Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA), 2017 (2) Excellent poster award, The 2nd International Conference on Boron Chemistry (China), 2019 (3) Poster award, The 5th Singapore Inorganic Chemistry Symposium (Singapore), 2019 (4) Poster award sponsored by Chemical Science, Nanyang Research Conference on Synthetic Chemistry and Catalysis (Singapore), 2020

E-mail	keiota（at）apch.kindai.ac.jp Note that this e-mail address has replaced the "@" with "(at)" to prevent spam. When e-mailing, replace the "(at)" with "@".
Laboratory URL	https://www.apch.kindai.ac.jp/laboratory/matsuo/