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Tadashi Yamaguchi is Professor at Waseda University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, teaching and researching in the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering. He leads a synthetic inorganic/ coordination chemistry group that specialises in polynuclear metal clusters, mixed-valence systems, and conductive coordination polymers.
Education & degrees: Doctorate (博士) awarded; specific institutions and years not listed in source.
Research interests: His work focuses on constructing multi-metallic assemblies—especially platinum and ruthenium clusters—exhibiting strong metal–metal dative bonding, reversible multi-electron redox cascades, and fast intramolecular electron transfer. Recent efforts target electrically conductive coordination polymers built from redox-active ligands such as dihydroxybenzoquinone for opto-electronic device applications.
Publication trends: Across 52 peer-reviewed papers (h-index 22) Yamaguchi repeatedly explores (i) stepwise 10–15 electron redox chemistry of oxo-bridged triruthenium oligomers, (ii) “charge-transfer isomerism” in mixed-valence dimers studied by IR spectro-electrochemistry, and (iii) crystal engineering of Pt(II) → M dative-bonded clusters that display luminescence or one-dimensional chains.
Grants & projects: He has served as PI or co-PI on numerous JSPS KAKENHI Grants-in-Aid (2000-2016) covering topics from platinum-to-metal dative bonding to π-conjugated supramolecular clusters and dendrimer-type Ru3 oligomers with internal potential gradients.
Teaching & service: In 2025 he instructs undergraduate laboratory courses (Science & Engineering Lab 1A/B, Inorganic/Analytical Chemistry labs), general chemistry (Chemistry C), and graduate lectures/seminars on coordination chemistry and current topics, while supervising BSc, MSc and doctoral theses.
