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Osamu Ishitani is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan and has a research focus predominantly in the fields of energy and materials science. Their work spans a variety of subfields including renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, process chemistry and technology, inorganic chemistry, and organic chemistry.

The scientist's research centers on several main topics related to catalysis and energy conversion. These include CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, advanced photocatalysis techniques, carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, catalytic processes in materials science, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications, and radical photochemical reactions.

Notable recent publications by Osamu Ishitani encompass the following:

  • Efficient Visible-Light-Driven CO2 Reduction by a Cobalt Molecular Catalyst Covalently Linked to Mesoporous Carbon Nitride, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Best practices for experiments and reporting in photocatalytic CO2 reduction, 2023, Nature Catalysis
  • Photocatalytic Systems for CO2 Reduction: Metal-Complex Photocatalysts and Their Hybrids with Photofunctional Solid Materials, 2022, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • An Artificial Z-Scheme Constructed from Dye-Sensitized Metal Oxide Nanosheets for Visible Light-Driven Overall Water Splitting, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Utilization of Low-Concentration CO2 with Molecular Catalysts Assisted by CO2-Capturing Ability of Catalysts, Additives, or Reaction Media, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

They have frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including Yusuke Tamaki, Kazuhiko Maeda, Kei Kamogawa, Yasuomi Yamazaki, and Hiromu Kumagai.

Osamu Ishitani's work is often published in venues such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Catalysis, Chemical Science, The Cambridge Structural Database, and ECS Meeting Abstracts.

Best Publications

  • Development of an Efficient Photocatalytic System for CO2 Reduction Using Rhenium(I) Complexes Based on Mechanistic Studies

    Hiroyuki Takeda;Kazuhide Koike;Haruo Inoue;Osamu Ishitani

  • Electrons, Photons, Protons and Earth-Abundant Metal Complexes for Molecular Catalysis of CO2 Reduction

    Hiroyuki Takeda;Claudio Cometto;Osamu Ishitani;Marc Robert

  • Development of efficient photocatalytic systems for CO2 reduction using mononuclear and multinuclear metal complexes based on mechanistic studies

    Hiroyuki Takeda;Osamu Ishitani

  • Visible‐Light‐Driven CO2 Reduction with Carbon Nitride: Enhancing the Activity of Ruthenium Catalysts

    Ryo Kuriki;Keita Sekizawa;Keita Sekizawa;Osamu Ishitani;Kazuhiko Maeda

  • Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 using metal complexes

    Yasuomi Yamazaki;Hiroyuki Takeda;Osamu Ishitani

  • Nature-Inspired, Highly Durable CO2 Reduction System Consisting of a Binuclear Ruthenium(II) Complex and an Organic Semiconductor Using Visible Light.

    Ryo Kuriki;Hironori Matsunaga;Takuya Nakashima;Keisuke Wada

  • Artificial Z-scheme constructed with a supramolecular metal complex and semiconductor for the photocatalytic reduction of CO2.

    Keita Sekizawa;Kazuhiko Maeda;Kazuhiko Maeda;Kazunari Domen;Kazuhide Koike

  • Architecture of Supramolecular Metal Complexes for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction: Ruthenium−Rhenium Bi- and Tetranuclear Complexes

    Bobak Gholamkhass;Hiroaki Mametsuka;Kazuhide Koike;Toyoaki Tanabe

  • Photoelectrochemical Reduction of CO2 Coupled to Water Oxidation Using a Photocathode with a Ru(II)–Re(I) Complex Photocatalyst and a CoOx/TaON Photoanode

    Go Sahara;Hiromu Kumagai;Kazuhiko Maeda;Nicolas Kaeffer

  • Photochemical reduction of CO₂ using TiO₂: effects of organic adsorbates on TiO₂ and deposition of Pd onto TiO₂.

    Tatsuto Yui;Akira Kan;Chieko Saitoh;Kazuhide Koike

  • Photocatalytic CO2 reduction with high turnover frequency and selectivity of formic acid formation using Ru(II) multinuclear complexes

    Yusuke Tamaki;Tatsuki Morimoto;Kazuhide Koike;Osamu Ishitani

  • A Highly Efficient Mononuclear Iridium Complex Photocatalyst for CO2 Reduction under Visible Light

    Shunsuke Sato;Takeshi Morikawa;Tsutomu Kajino;Osamu Ishitani

  • Substantial improvement in the efficiency and durability of a photocatalyst for carbon dioxide reduction using a benzoimidazole derivative as an electron donor

    Yusuke Tamaki;Kazuhide Koike;Tatsuki Morimoto;Osamu Ishitani

  • Photocatalytic CO2 reduction using a Mn complex as a catalyst

    Hiroyuki Takeda;Hiroki Koizumi;Kouhei Okamoto;Osamu Ishitani

  • Robust Binding between Carbon Nitride Nanosheets and a Binuclear Ruthenium(II) Complex Enabling Durable, Selective CO2 Reduction under Visible Light in Aqueous Solution

    Ryo Kuriki;Muneaki Yamamoto;Kimitaka Higuchi;Yuta Yamamoto

  • Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Using Cu(I) Photosensitizers with a Fe(II) Catalyst.

    Hiroyuki Takeda;Kenji Ohashi;Akiko Sekine;Osamu Ishitani

  • Supramolecular Photocatalysts for the Reduction of CO2

    Yusuke Tamaki;Osamu Ishitani

  • Reaction mechanisms of catalytic photochemical CO2 reduction using Re(I) and Ru(II) complexes

    Yusuke Kuramochi;Osamu Ishitani;Hitoshi Ishida

  • A polymeric-semiconductor–metal-complex hybrid photocatalyst for visible-light CO2 reduction

    Kazuhiko Maeda;Kazuhiko Maeda;Keita Sekizawa;Osamu Ishitani

  • Efficient Visible-Light-Driven CO2 Reduction by a Cobalt Molecular Catalyst Covalently Linked to Mesoporous Carbon Nitride

    Bing Ma;Gui Chen;Claire Fave;Lingjing Chen

  • Photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to methane and acetic acid by an aqueous suspension of metal-deposited TiO2

    Osamu Ishitani;Chieko Inoue;Yuji Suzuki;Takashi Ibusuki

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuhide Koike
Kazuhide Koike National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Kazuhiko Maeda
Kazuhiko Maeda Institute of Science Tokyo
Akira Yamakata
Akira Yamakata Okayama University
Yoshiharu Uchimoto
Yoshiharu Uchimoto Kyoto University
Ryu Abe
Ryu Abe Kyoto University
Shozo Yanagida
Shozo Yanagida Osaka University
Akihiko Kudo
Akihiko Kudo Tokyo University of Science
Devens Gust
Devens Gust Arizona State University
Shinji Inagaki
Shinji Inagaki Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories (Japan)
Thomas E. Mallouk
Thomas E. Mallouk University of Pennsylvania

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