Misawa-Suzuki Tomoyo

(三澤智世)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Materials and Life Sciences, Sophia University

Degree: Ph.D. (Science)(Sophia University)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2848-5412
researchmap Member ID: 7000023345

External link: http://www.mls.sophia.ac.jp/~coordchem/

2011-2014 Sophia University / Graduate school of Sopohia University
'Syntheses of dinuclear ruthenium complexes and studies on their electronic structures, redox behaviors, and reactivities'

2014-2015 National Instuitute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
'Studies on standarization of measurement methods for thermal properties of solid materials'

2015-2018 Graduate school of Sophia University
'Syntheses of oxido-bridged dinuclear ruthenium complexes and studies on their properties and reactivities for molecular conversion reactions'

2018-present Sophia University Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Materials and Life Sciences, Assistant Professor
'Syntheses of multi-nuclear transition metal complexes and development of molecular conversion reactions'

For undergraduate school students: Coordination Chemistry, Basic Chemistry, ChemistryI Lab., Seminar
For graduate school students: Advanced course of Inorganic Chemistry (Inorganic reaction chemistry)

Research Interests

Research Areas

Committee Memberships

2024 - Present

Working group of the summer studies session, Young Coordination Chemists' Association of Japan
Apr, 2020 - Present

Organizing comitee member（Kanto branch）, Young Coordination Chemists' Association of Japan
Apr, 2025 - Mar, 2026

Administrative Office, Young Coordination Chemists' Association of Japan
Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2025

Office member, Young Coordination Chemists' Association of Japan
Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2024

Supervisor, Young Coordination Chemists' Association of Japan

Awards

Mar, 2017

CSJ Student Presemtation Award, Chemical society of Japan
Dec, 2013

Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar, Representative of Japanese students, Japan Prize

Tomoyo Suzuki

Papers

Dinitrogen-bridged Diruthenium Complexes Bearing 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylate in the Mixed-valence State

Kazunari Uehara, Nayoung Kim, Aya Benzaki, Midori Otsuka, Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

Dalton Transactions, in press, Oct, 2025 Peer-reviewed
Diruthenium(IV,IV) complexes with {Ru2(μ-O)2} diamond core bridged by acetato or hydrogenphosphato ligands

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Ryuta Tanabe, Yuyuko Nagoshi, Nanako Asai, Yusuke Kataoka, Hirotaka Nagao

Inorganic Chemistry, 64(30) 15609-15619, Jul, 2025 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Ru(IV)–Ru(IV), Ru(III)–Ru(IV), and Ru(III)–Ru(III) complexes having a sulfato bridging ligand on the doubly oxido-/hydroxio-bridged core, and their crystallographic and electronic structures

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Yusuke Kataoka, Sota Mafune, Teresa Niwa, Hirotaka Nagao

Dalton Transactions, 54 2937-2949, Feb, 2025 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Co(III)-Co(II)-Co(III) Edge-Sharing Trinuclear Complexes Having the Doubly Methoxido-Bridged Core Bridged by Acetato Ligand

Ryosei Ito, Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 169 113060, Sep, 2024 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
Pyrazine Coordinated Dinuclear and Mononuclear Ruthenium Complexes Formed via the Conversion of the Triply Chlorido-Bridged Diruthenium(II) Complex

Kaito Nakayama, Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

Inorganic Chemistry, 63(24) 11209-11218, May, 2024 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author

Misc.

Studies on the Active Species of Soluble Methane Monooxygenase

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki

Chemistry, Aug, 2022 InvitedLead authorCorresponding author
Structures and Functions of Oxido-Bridged Diruthenium Complexes

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki

Bull. Jpn. Soc. Coord. Chem., (78) 40-43, Nov, 2021 InvitedLead authorCorresponding author
Studies on Oxido-Bridged Dinuclear Complexes

Tomoyo MISAWA-SUZUKI

CanApple Newsletter, (184), May, 2021 InvitedLead authorCorresponding author

Books and Other Publications

Textbook of Chemistry Lab. I

(Role: Joint author, Chapter 3)

Dept. of Materials and Life Sciences, Fac. of Sci. and Tech., Sophia University, 2020

Presentations

121

Reactions of iron complexes with chlorido ligands bearing bis(2-pyridylmethyl)ether

Gaku Nukariya, Tomoyo Misawa, Hirotaka Nagao

The 75th JSCC, Sep 17, 2025
Structures and properties of ruthenium complexes bearing a macrocyclic ligand consisted with two bisiminopyrrole moieties

Karin Yasue, Tomoyo Misawa, Hirotaka Nagao

The 75th JSCC, Sep 17, 2025
Reactions of nitrido-bridged dinuclear acetonitrileruthenium complex beraing 2,2'-bipyridine and 2-pyridinedicarboxylate

Kotaro Ikeda, Tomoyo Misawa, Hirotaka Nagao

The 75th JSCC, Sep 17, 2025
Reactions of aniline coordinated to ruthenium complexes bearing pyridyl ligands

Shota Nakamura, Tomoyo Misawa, Hirotaka Nagao

The 75th JSCC, Sep 17, 2025
Syntheses of iron complexes bearing bis(6-methyl-2-pyridylmethyl)ether

Shu Igarashi, Tomoyo Misawa, Hirotaka Nagao

The 75th JSCC, Sep 15, 2025
Electronic structures of diruthenium complexes having a bridging sulfato ligand on the {Ru2(μ-O(H))2} core in the Ru(IV)-Ru(IV), Ru(III)-Ru(IV), and Ru(III)-Ru(III) states

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Yusuke Kataoka, Hirotaka Nagao

The 105th CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 28, 2025
Synthesis of dinitrogen-bridged ruthenium dinuclear complex having 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylato in a mixed valence state

Kazunari Uehara, Tomoyo Misawa, Hirotaka Nagao

Mar 28, 2025
Reactions of aniline coordinated to ruthenium(III) bearing pyridylaminoacetate accompanied with a proton-dissociation

Haruka Takeda, Tomoyo Misawa, Hirotaka Nagao

The 105th CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 28, 2025
Reactions of bis(2-pyridylmethyl)ether tridentate ligand with Fe(II) and Fe(III) salts to synthesize new iron complexes

Shu Igarashi, Tomoyo Misawa, Hirotaka Nagao

The 105th CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 27, 2025
Properties of trichloridoiron(III) complex bearing bis(2-pyridylmethyl)ether and the reactions with oxygen-donor ligands

Gaku Nukariya, Tomoyo Misawa, Hirotaka Nagao

The 105th CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 27, 2025
Syntheses of Ruthenium Complexes by Reactions of Ruthenium Sources and a Macrocyclic Ligand Consisting of Two Bis(imino)pyrrole Units

Karin Yasue, Tomoyo Misawa, Yasuhiro Funahashi, Hirotaka, Nagao

The 105th CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 27, 2025
C-H oxidation reactions of organic compounds by the diruthenium(IV) complex having acetato on the {Ru2IV(m-O)2} core

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Ryuta Tanabe, Hirotaka Nagao

The 57th Symposium on Chemical and Biological Oxidation, Nov 16, 2024
Synthetic study of chlorine containing polyketide CDF-1 from Dictyostelium discoideum

M. Kodaka, M. Hirao, T. Misawa, Y. Suzuki, T. Saito, T. Usuki

The 53rd Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Oct 11, 2024
Pyrazine-Bridged Dinuclear and Tetranuclear Ruthenium(II) Complexes

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Kaito Nakayama, Hirotaka Nagao

The 74th JSCC, Sep 20, 2024
Syntheses and reactions of dinuclear ruthenium complexes bearing a macrocyclic ligand having two bisiminopyrrol moieties

K. Yasue, T. Misawa, Y. Funahashi, H. Nagao

The 74th JSCC, Sep 20, 2024
The acetonitrile ligand reactions on nitrosylruthenium complexes bearing ethylbis(2-pyridylethyl)amine

S. Fujikawa, T. Misawa, H. Nagao

The 74th JSCC, Sep 20, 2024
Framework conversion of singly oxido- and doubly acetato-bridged diruthenium(III) complex through reduction

M. Hayashi, T. Misawa, H. Nagao

The 74th JSCC, Sep 18, 2024
Syntheses of dinuclear and trinuclear cobalt complexes bearing oxygen-donor ligands

R. Ito, T. Misawa, H. Nagao

The 74th JSCC, Sep 18, 2024
Syntheses of aqua-/hydroxido-coordinated iron complexes bearing bis(2-pyridylmethyl)ether

S. Igarashi, T. Misawa, H. Nagao

The 74th JSCC, Sep 18, 2024
Trinuclear Co(III)-Co(II)-Co(III) Complexes Having the Doubly Alkoxido-Bridged Core Bridged by Acetato Ligand

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Ryosei Ito, Hirotaka Nagao

International Congress on Pure and Applied Chemistry 2024, Aug 29, 2024 Invited
Properties of Diruthenium Complexes Having a Hydrogenphosphato Ligand Bridged on the {Ru2(μ-O(H))2} Core

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

The 104th CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 21, 2024
Redox reactions of a dinuclear ruthenium(III) complex having one oxido- and two acetato-bridged structure

M. Hayashi, T. Misawa-Suzuki, H. Nagao

The 104th CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 21, 2024
Reduction and ligand reactions of mononuclear nitrosylruthenium complex having acetonitrile as coexisting ligands

S. Fujikawa, T. Misawa-Suzuki, H. Nagao

The 104th CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 21, 2024
Synthesis on dinuclear cobalt complexes with the triply bridged structures by the oxygen- or nitrogen- donor ligands.

R. Ito, T. Misawa-Suzuki, H. Nagao

The 104th CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 20, 2024
Syntheses of ruthenium complexes bearing a macrocyclic ligand consisting of two bis(imino)pyrrole units

K. Yasue, T. Misawa-Suzuki, K. Yasue

The 104th CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 20, 2024
Properties of High-Valent Dinuclear Complexes Having Acetato or Sulfato Bridging Ligand on the {RuIV2(μ-O)2} Diamond Core

T. Misawa-Suzuki, Y. Nagoshi, H. Nagao

The 56th Symposium on Chemical and Biological Oxidation, Nov 11, 2023
Syntheses and Structures of Ru(IV)-Ru(IV), Ru(III)-Ru(IV), and Ru(III)-Ru(III) Complexes Having the Sulfato Bridging Ligand on the Doubly Oxido-/Hydroxio-Bridged Core

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

Tha 73rd JSCC, Sep 22, 2023
Syntheses of multinuclear cobalt complexes with an acetato ligand on the alkoxido-or hydroxido-bridged core

R. Ito T, Misawa-Suzuki H. Nagao

Tha 73rd JSCC, Sep 21, 2023
Properties of chloridocobalt complex bearing bis(2-pyridylmethyl)ether and 2,2'-bipyridine in aqueous solution

R. Toriba, T. Misawa-Suzuki, H. Nagao

Tha 73rd JSCC, Sep 21, 2023
Syntheses of Dinuclear Ruthenium Compelxes by the Reduction of Trichloridoruthenium(III) Complex in the Presence of Acid

M. Hayashi, T. Misawa-Suzuki, H. Nagao

Tha 73rd JSCC, Sep 21, 2023
Syntheses and Formation Processes of Nitrido-Bridged Diruthenium(IV,IV) Complexes and Their Reduction Behaviors

Mori Fujita, Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

Tha 73rd JSCC, Sep 21, 2023
Syntheses of mononuclear nitrosylruthenium copmlex showing redox couples at higher potential regions

S. Fujikawa, T. Misawa-Suzuki, H. Nagao

Tha 73rd JSCC, Sep 21, 2023
Co(II) and Fe(III) Complexes Having the Tridentate Bis(2-pyridylmethyl)ether Ligand

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Ryo Toriba, Hirotaka Nagao

International Congress on Pure and Applied Chemistry 2023, Sep 15, 2023 Invited
Syntheses and Properties of Cobalt(II) Complexes Having Facial- or Meridional-Type Bis(2-pyridylmethyl)ether

Ryo Toriba, Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

The 103rd CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 23, 2023
Synthesis of Multinuclear Cobalt Complex Having Benzylbis(2-pyridylmethyl)amine

Ryosei Ito, Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

The 103rd CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 22, 2023
Reactions of Nitrido-Bridged Diruthenium(IV,IV) Complex with Acid and Their Electrochemical Behaviors

Mori Fujita, Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

The 103rd CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 22, 2023
Reactions of Doubly Nitrosyl-Bridged Diruthenium Complex with Acid

Sota Fujikawa, Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

The 103rd CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 22, 2023
Synthesis and Properties of One Oxido- and Two-acetato Bridged Diruthenium(III,III) Complex

Masahiro Hayashi, Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

The 103rd CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 22, 2023
Synthesis and Reactivity of Doubly Oxido-Bridged Diruthenium Complex with Terminal Aqua/Hydroxido Ligands

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Nanako Asai, Hirotaka Nagao

The 103rd CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 22, 2023
Isolation of Oxido/Hydroxido-Bridged Diruthenium Complexes as Model Compounds of sMMO

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Sota Mafune, Hirotaka Nagao

Asian Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Nov 30, 2022 Invited
Redox Control of Diruthenium Complexes by Bridging or Co-existing Ligands

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Kaito Nakayama, Hirotaka Nagao

International Congress on Pure and Applied Chemistry 2022 Kotakinabalu, Nov 22, 2022 Invited
C-H Oxidation Reactions by the Ru(IV)-Ru(IV) Dinuclear Complexes with the Doubly Oxido-Bridged Core

Tomoyo MISAWA-SUZUKI, Hirotaka NAGAO

The 55th Symposium on Chemical and Biological Oxidation, Nov 5, 2022
Studies on the C-H Bond Activation of Aromatic Compounds by Ru(IV)-Ru(IV) Doubly Oxido-Bridged Complex with a Carbonato Ligand

Tomoyo Misasa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

Tha 72nd JSCC, Sep 27, 2022
Syntheses and Properties of Diruthenium Complex Having a Doubly Hydroxido-Bridged and Hydrogencarbonato

Sota Mafune, Tomoyo Misawa, Hirotaka Nagao

Tha 72nd JSCC, Sep 27, 2022
Syntheses and Properties of Mono- and Dinuclear Pyrazine Ruthenium Complexes

Kaito Nakayama, Tomoyo Misawa, Hirotaka Nagao

Tha 72nd JSCC, Sep 27, 2022
Synthesis and properties of cobalt and iron complexes bearing bis(2-pyridylmethyl)ether

Ryo Toriba, Tomoyo Misawa, Nagao Hirotaka

Tha 72nd JSCC, Sep 26, 2022
Ru(III)-Ru(IV) complexes with the doubly oxido-bridged core

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Sota Mafune, Hirotaka Nagao

8th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Aug 9, 2022
Syntheses and Properties of the Mono- and Dinuclear Ruthenium Complexes Having Pyrazine

Kaito Nakayama, Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

The 102nd CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 26, 2022
Proton and Electron Transfer on the Diruthenium Complexes with the Doubly Oxido-Bridged Core and a Carbonato Ligand

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

The 102nd CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 25, 2022
Reduction Reaction of Diruthenium Complex Having a Carbonato Ligand on the Doubly Oxido-Bridged Core

Sota Mafune, Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki, Hirotaka Nagao

The 102nd CSJ Annual Meeting, Mar 25, 2022

Teaching Experience

Apr, 2025 - Present

Special Topics in Chemistry (in part) (Grad. School of Sophia Univ.)
Apr, 2024 - Present

Instrumental Analysis (partial) (Sophia University)
Nov, 2023 - Present

Topics of Green Science 2 (partial) (Sophia University)
Nov, 2023 - Present

Instrumental Analysis (partial) (Sophia University)
Sep, 2018 - Present

Intensive Lecture on Inorganic Reactions (Graduate School of Sophia University)

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Synthesis of oxido-bridged diruthenium(III) complex as a structural model for the reaction centers of iron-containing methane monooxygenase

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, JSPS, Feb, 2025 - Mar, 2028

Tomoyo MISAWA
C-H Oxidation Reactions of Organic Substrates with Dinuclear Ru(IV)-Ru(IV) Complexes

Research Grants in the Natural Sciences, The Mitsubishi Foundation, Apr, 2026 - Mar, 2027

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki
Development of Artificial Nitrogen Conversion Cycle through Conversion of Nitrogen-Containing Compounds Induced on Ruthenium Complexes Induced by Redox Reactions

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2025

Hirotaka Nagao, Tomoyo Misawa
Isolation of Oxido-Bridged Diruthenium(IV) Coomplexes as Model Compounds of Reaction Intermediate in Nature

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, JSPS, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2025

Tomoyo Misawa-Suzuki
Preparation of Oxido-Bridged Diruthenium(IV,IV) Complexes and Oxidation of Organic Substrates

Proposal-type, Joint Usage/Research Center for Catalysis, Jun, 2024 - Oct, 2024

T. Misawa-Suzuki, Y. Shimoyama

Social Activities

Lab. Tour upon Open Campus "Let us look at the colors and shapes of metal compounds"

Logistic support, Performer

Sophia Univ., Aug 3, 2025
Open Lab. upon Open Campus "Let us compare the colors of metal compounds"

Logistic support, Performer

Sophia Univ., Aug 2, 2024 - Aug 3, 2024
Special experimental class for high school girls interested in sciences and engineerings

Lecturer, Planner

Fac. of Sci. and Tech., Sophia Univ., Dec 10, 2023

Attachment
A mock lecture in open campus "Metal complexes that support natural and biological reactions"

Lecturer, Logistic support

Sophia Univ., mock lecture in open campus, Aug 2, 2023

Other

(Teaching achievements)Instruction for doing research (to graduate students)

Apr, 2023 - Present
(Teaching achievements)Instruction for doing research (to undergraduate students)

Apr, 2018 - Present
(Teaching achievements)Research assistant in the Fac. of Sci. and Tech.

Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2018
chief X-ray inspection inspector engineer
(Licenses)Hazardous Materials Engineer's Licenses (Class A)

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