I am engaged in organometallic chemistry, which is the study of organometallic compounds in which carbon atoms and metal atoms are covalently bonded. In particular, I have been studied on early-transition metals such as zirconium compounds. For example, organic synthesis that utilized zirconocene complexes, olefin polymerization catalysts and synthesis of small metalacyclic alkynes and allenes. Recently I have been investigating more environmentally friendly organic reaction processes using water as a reaction medium in the presence of thermo-responsive polymer micelles.