The Department of Electronic Chemistry is a new department established in April 1997. Its predecessor, the Department of Electronic Chemistry (Denshi Kagaku Senko) was established in 1973, and after around 20 years was reorganized to form an improved organization with the goal of "creating new fields of study."

This department covers areas from the fundamental principles to the application of chemistry, based on the idea of understanding chemical phenomena in a unified way through the eyes of electrons, from the viewpoint that a chemical reaction is a process of electrons moving.

The Department of Electronic Chemistry has molecular transformation and material energy conversion as Fundamental Chairs, and their fields of study include organic functional chemistry, organic electrochemistry, electron transfer reactions, inorganic solid-state chemistry, and surface science. In addition, the department has the following Cooperative Chairs: molecular photo spectroscopy, organic synthetic chemistry, catalytic chemistry, polymeric materials, biochemistry, and solid-state physical chemistry. Moreover, the Department of Electronic Chemistry is a pacesetting interdisciplinary department which cooperates with external research organizations to provide education and research.

The Department of Electronic Chemistry sets up its curriculum to help students achieve visionary thinking and creativity so that they can play an active role in wide-ranging fields, such as inorganic materials, organic synthesis, polymer chemistry, electronic materials, biochemistry, and energy conversion as well as in the fields of pure chemistry. Moreover, the Department of Electronic Chemistry offers both master and doctoral degrees in either science or engineering depending on the student's choice, one of the distinct characteristics of the department.