Room-temperature Synthesis of m-Benzyne
Kenta Koyamada, Kazunori Miyamoto,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Nature Synthesis, 2024, 3, 1083–1090. [File for View Only] [Selected as Cover Picture] 

DFT Study on Retigerane-Type Sesterterpenoid Biosynthesis: Initial Conformation of GFPP Regulates Biosynthetic Pathway, Ring-Construction Order and Stereochemistry
Yuichiro Watanabe, Takahiro Hashishin, Hajime Sato,* Taro Matsuyama, Masaya Nakajima, Jun-ichi Haruta, Masanobu Uchiyama*
JACS Au, 2024, 4, 3484-3491. (doi: 10.1021/jacsau.4c00313 (Gold Open Access))
[Selected as a Cover Picture] 

Transition-Metal-Free Thioboration of Terminal Alkynes
Taro Matsuyama,* Hiroshi Ishida, Chao Wang,* Kazunori Miyamoto, Masaya Nakajima, Naoyuki Toriumi, Yuki Nagashima, Masanobu Uchiyama*
JACS Au, 2024, 4, in press. (doi: 10.1021/jacsau.4c00907 (Gold Open Access))

Vibration-mediated Long-wavelength Photolysis of Electronegative Bonds beyond S0–S1 and S0–T1 Transitions
Antônio Junio Araujo Dias, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Ken Tanaka,* and Yuki Nagashima*
Commun. Chem., 2024, 7, Article number: 126.

Dearomative Construction of 2D/3D Frameworks from Quinolines via Nucleophilic Addition/Borate-Mediated Photocycloaddition
Asuha Shimose, Shiho Ishigaki, Yu Sato, Juntaro Nogami, Naoyuki Toriumi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Ken Tanaka,* and Yuki Nagashima*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202403461. [Selected as a Cover Picture] 

Design and Enantioselective Synthesis of 3D π-Extended Carbohelicenes for Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Futo Morita, Yuko Kishida, Yu Sato, Haruki Sugiyama, Masato Abekura, Juntaro Nogami, Naoyuki Toriumi, Yuki Nagashima, Tomokazu Kinoshita, Gaku Fukuhara, Masanobu Uchiyama, Hidehiro Uekusa, and Ken Tanaka*
Nature Synthesis, 2024, 3, 774–786. [File for View Only]

Visible-Light-Driven Germyl Radical Generation via EDA-Catalyzed ET–HAT Process
Kaito Yoshizawa,# Bi-Xiao Li,# Taro Matsuyama,# Chao Wang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Eur. J. 2024, 30, e202401546. (#: equall contribution)

Metalla-Carbaporphyrinoids Consisting of an Acyclic N-Confused Tetrapyrrole Analogue Served as Stable Near-Infrared-II Dyes
Biju Basumatary, Hidetoshi Tsuruda, Dariusz W. Szczepanik, Jiyeon Lee, Jaehyeok Ryu, Shigeki Mori, Kyo Yamagata, Takayuki Tanaka, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Jiwon Kim,* Masatoshi Ishida* and Hiroyuki Furuta*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202405059. [Selected as Hot Paper]

20π-Electron Antiaromatic Benziphthalocyanines with Absorption Reaching the Near-Infrared-II Region
Shunsuke Yanagi,# Orie Takayama,# Naoyuki Toriumi,* Atsuya Muranaka,* Daisuke Hashizume, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Eur. J. 2024, 30, e202400401. (#: equall contribution)

Visible-light-induced trans-Hydroboration of Diaryl Alkynes Utiliz-ing Excited Triplet State of Borate Complexes
Takahiro Komaki, Yu Sato, Masanobu Uchiyama, Ken Tanaka,* and Yuki Nagashima*
Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 2180–2185.

BN-embedded Aromatic Hydrocarbon Synthesis via Nucleophilic Diboration Reactions
Mei Harada,# Shota Fujioka,# Shoma Ansai, Chao Wang, Shinichiro Kamino, Keiichi Hirano,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 247–251. (#: equall contribution)

Enantioselective Synthesis of Planar Chiral Ferrocene Triflones
Min Wen, William Erb,* Florence Mongin, Jean-Pierre Hurvois, Marielle Blot, Thierry Roisnel, Yury S. Halauko,* Vadim E. Matulis, Yuta Koike, Yu Kitazawa,* Mutsumi Kimura, and Masanobu Uchiyama
Adv. Synth. Catal., 2024, in press.

Synthesis, Structure, and Optical Property of [6]Cyclo-1,2-naphthylene
Masaki Hara, Naoyuki Toriumi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Kyoko Nozaki*
Chem. Eur. J. 2024, 30, in press.

Determination of Molecular Arrangement in Extremely Uniaxial Solid Thin Films of aLinear Bisazo Dye
Jian Yu, Tetsuya Aoyama,* Kiyohiro Adachi, Atsuya Muranaka, Masamitsu Ishitobi, Hirohito Umezawa, Masanobu Uchiyama, Daisuke Hashizume, Yutaka Yamagata, Toshihiko Tanaka,* and Shinya Matsumoto*
Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 2024, 63, in press. [Special Issue: Recent Advances in Molecular Electronics and Bio-electronics 2024 (M&BE2024)]

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Catalytic Stereoselective Synthesis of Doubly, Triply and Quadruply Twisted Aromatic Belts 
Juntaro Nogami, Daisuke Hashizume,* Yuki Nagashima, Kazunori Miyamoto, Masanobu Uchiyama, Ken Tanaka*
Nature Synthesis, 2023, 2, 888–897. [File for View Only]

Dearomative Triple Elementalization of Quinolines Driven by Visible Light
Shiho Ishigaki, Yuki Nagashima,* Daiki Yukimori, Jin Tanaka, Takashi Matsumoto, Kazunori Miyamoto, Masanobu Uchiyama,* and Ken Tanaka*
Nature Commun., 2023, 14, 652 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36161-4).

TEAD1 Trapping by the Q353R–Lamin A/C Causes Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Shintaro Yamada, Toshiyuki Ko, Masamichi Ito, Tatsuro Sassa, Seitaro Nomura,* Hiromichi Okuma, Mayuko Sato, Tsuyoshi Imasaki, Satoshi Kikkawa, Bo Zhang, Takanobu Yamada, Yuka Seki, Kanna Fujita, Manami Kato, Masayuki Kubota, Satoshi Hatsuse, Mikako Katagiri, Hiromu Hayashi, Momoko Hamano, Norifumi Takeda, Hiroyuki Morita, Shuji Takada, Masashi Toyoda, Masanobu Uchiyama, Masashi Ikeuchi, Kiminori Toyooka, Akihiro Umezawa, Yoshihiro Yamanishi, Ryo Nitta,* Hiroyuki Aburatani,* Issei Komuro*
Science Adv., 2023, 9, eade7047 (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ade7047).

Revision of Peniroquesine Biosynthetic Pathway by Retro-biosynthetic Theoretical Analysis: Ring Strain Controls the Unique Carbocation Rearrangement Cascade
Taro Matsuyama,# Ko Togashi,# Moe Nakano, Hajime Sato,* Masanobu Uchiyama*
JACS Au, 2023, 3, 1596–1603. (doi: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00039 (Gold Open Access))
(#: equall contribution)

Mechanistic Analysis of the Stereodivergent Nitroalkane Cyclopropanation Catalyzed by Nonheme Iron Enzymes
Richiro Ushimaru,*,# Lide Cha,# Shimo Shotaro,# Xiaojun Li, Jared Paris, Takahiro Mori, Kazunori Miyamoto, Lindsay Coffer, Masanobu Uchiyama, Yisong Guo,* Wei-chen Chang,* and Ikuro Abe*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 24210–24217. (#: equall contribution)

Structural and Mechanistic Insights into the C−C Bond-Forming Rearrangement Reaction Catalyzed by Heterodimeric Hinokiresinol Synthase
Richiro Ushimaru,*,# Yiling Ding,# Takahiro Mori, Kazunori Miyamoto, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Ikuro Abe*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 21966–21973. (#: equall contribution)

A Switchable Near-Infrared-Absorbing Dye Based on Redox-Bistable Benzitetraazaporphyrin
Shunsuke Yanagi,# Akihisa Matsumoto,# Naoyuki Toriumi,* Yusuke Tanaka, Kazunori Miyamoto, Atsuya Muranaka,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202218358. (#: equall contribution)

Total Biosynthesis of Melleolides from Basidiomycota Fungi: Mechanistic Analysis of the Multi-Functional GMC Oxidase Mld7
Mitsunori Fukaya,# Shota Nagamine,# Taro Ozaki, Yaping Liu, Miina Ozeki, Taro Matsuyama, Kazunori Miyamoto, Hirokazu Kawagishi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Hideaki Oikawa*, and Atsushi Minami*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202308881. (#: equall contribution)

Nucleophile-Triggered π-Topological Transformation: a New Synthetic Approach to Near-Infrared-Emissive Rhodamines
Mei Harada, Misa Kutsuna, Taichi Kitamura, Yusuke Usui, Masayoshi Ujiki, Yuka Nakamura, Tohru Obata, Masaru Tanioka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Daisuke Sawada, Shinichiro Kamino*
Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29, e202301969.

Visible-Light-Driven Silyl or Germyl Radical Generation via Si–C or Ge–C Bond Homolysis
Bi-Xiao Li, Hiroshi Ishida, Chao Wang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Org. Lett., 2023, 25, 1765–1770.

Lithium Aryltrifluoroborate as a Catalyst for Halogen Transfer
Kengo Inoue, Keiichi Hirano,* Shota Fujioka, Masanobu Uchiyama,* Atsunori Mori, and Kentaro Okano*
ACS Catal., 2023, 13, 3788–3793. [Selected as a Cover Picture] 

Mechanistic Investigation of the Degradation Pathways of alpha-beta/alpha-alpha Bridged Epipolythiodioxopiperazines (ETPs) 
Daiki Kurita, Hajime Sato,* Kazunori Miyamoto, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 12797–12801.

Experimental and Computational Investigation of Facial Selectivity Switching in Nickel–Diamine–Acetate-Catalyzed Michael Reactions
Yoshihiro Sohtome,* Shinsuke Komagawa, Ayako Nakamura, Daisuke Hashizume, Sylvain Lectard, Mai Akakabe, Yoshitaka Hamashima, Masanobu Uchiyama, Mikiko Sodeoka*
J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 7764–7773.

Perfluoroalkoxylation Reaction via Dual Concurrent Catalysis 
Shota Fujioka, Keiichi Hirano,* Naoyuki Hoshiya, Akiyoshi Yamauchi, Yosuke Kishikawa, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem Commun., 2023, 59, 8290-8293.

Phosphorescent Emission from Spatial Stacks of Phenanthrene Units in Oligo(9,10-phenanthrene)s
Takahiro Kawata, Masahiro Sonobe, Dai Morikawa, Yu Kitazawa, Yasushi Nomura, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Mutsumi Kimura*
Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 231–234.

Cycloisomerization of Enynones by Aluminum Halides: Construction of Bicyclo[3.1.0]hexanes with Introducing Halides
Daisuke Sato, Akira Tsubouchi, Yuichiro Watanabe, Keiichi Noguchi, Kazunori Miyamoto, Masanobu Uchiyama and Akio Saito*
Org. Chem. Front., 2023, 26, 1112–1118. [Selected as Front Cover] 

Near-Infrared Fluorescence Enhancement by Deuteration of Phthalocyanine
Naoyuki Toriumi,* Atsuya Muranaka, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Pharm. Bull., 2023, 71, 459-461.

Origin of Large Near-Infrared Solvatochromism of 18π-Electron Aromatic Monohydroxybenziphthalocyanine
Naoyuki Toriumi,* Atsuya Muranaka and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Pharm. Bull.,  2023, 71, 462-465.

Formation of a Dinuclear Zinc Complex with Open-ring Hemiporphyrazine
Yusuke Tanaka, Xingmei Ouyang, Tomotaka Murayama, Atsuya Muranaka* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2023, 27, 184–189.
(Special Issues Celebrating 70th Birthday of Prof. Tomás Torres)

Photohemilabile PSP-Rhodium Pincer Catalysts for Dehydrogenative C–H Bond Activation of Arenes
Naoyuki Toriumi, Yanzong Lyu, Nobuharu Iwasawa*
ChemCatChem, 2023, 15, e202300139.

BOOK & REVIEW

Xanthene-based Functional Dyes: Towards New Molecules Operating in the Near-infrared Region
Shinichiro Kamino* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2023, 21, 2458–2471.

Synthetic Element Chemistry based on Precise Designs of Reagents and Transition States
(理論計算を基盤とした精密反応設計に基づく元素合成化学 –ホウ素とケイ素導入反応を中心に–)
KeichiHirano* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Synth. Org. Chem. Jpn., 2023, 81, 1096-1102.

Development of Photoinduced Reactions Using Excited States of Electron-positive Typical Elements
(電気陽性な典型元素の励起状態を利用する光反応の開発)
Yuki Nagashima,* Masanobu Uchiyama, and Ken Tanaka
J. Synth. Org. Chem. Jpn., 2023, 81, 930–940.

Synthesis, Characterization, and Reaction of Hypervalent Organo-λ3-bromanes and Chloranes
(三価の超原子価有機臭素および塩素化合物の合成、構造およびその反応)
Kazunori Miyamoto,* Masanobu Uchiyama,* and Masahito Ochiai*
J. Synth. Org. Chem. Jpn., 2023, 81, 416–427.

Orbital-resolved Visualization of Single-molecule Photocurrent Channels
Miyabi Imai-Imada, Hiroshi Imada,* Kuniyuki Miwa, Yusuke Tanaka, Kensuke Kimura, Inhae Zoh, Rafael B. Jaculbia, Hiroko Yoshino, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Yousoo Kim*
Nature, 2022, 603, 829–834.  

Stereoselective Cyclohexadienylamine Synthesis through Rhodium-catalyzed [2+2+2]-Cyclotrimerization
Kohei Fujii, Yuki Nagashima, Takumi Shimokawa, Junichiro Kanazawa, Haruki Sugiyama, Koji Masutomi, Hidehiro Uekusa, Masanobu Uchiyama,* and Ken Tanaka*
Nature Synthesis, 2022, 1, 365–375. [File for View Only] [Selected as Front Cover] 

Practical and Facile Access to Bicyclo[3.1.1]heptanes: Potent Bioisosteres of meta-Substituted Benzenes
Toranosuke Iida, Junichiro Kanazawa,* Tadafumi Matsunaga, Kazunori Miyamoto, Keiichi Hirano,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 21848–21852. [Selected as a Cover Picture]

Elucidation of Late-stage Biosynthesis of Phomoidride: Proposal of Cyclization Mechanism Affording Characteristic 9-Membered Ring of Fungal Dimeric Anhydride
Shintaro Yamamoto,# Taro Matsuyama,# Taro Ozaki,* Jyunya Takino, Hajime Sato, Masanobu Uchiyama,* Atsushi Minami,* and Hideaki Oikawa*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 20998–21004. (#: equall contribution)

Stereoselectivity and Substrate Specificity of the Fe(II)/α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Oxygenase TqaL
Hui Tao,# Richiro Ushimaru,#,* Takayoshi Awakawa, Takahiro Mori, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Ikuro Abe*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 21512–21520. (#: equall contribution)

General Design Strategy to Precisely Control the Emission of Fluorophores via a Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer (TICT) Process
Kenjiro Hanaoka,* Shimpei Iwaki, Kiyoshi Yagi, Takuya Myochin, Takayuki Ikeno, Hisashi Ohno, Eita Sasaki, Toru Komatsu, Tasuku Ueno, Motokazu Uchigashima, Takayasu Mikuni, Kazuki Tainaka, Shinya Tahara, Satoshi Takeuchi, Tahei Tahara, Masanobu Uchiyama, Tetsuo Nagano and Yasuteru Urano*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 19778–19790.

Synthesis of Cyclophenacene- and Chiral-Type Cyclophenylene–Naphthylene Belts
Juntaro Nogami, Yuki Nagashima, Haruki Sugiyama, Kazunori Miyamoto, Yusuke Tanaka, Hidehiro Uekusa, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Ken Tanaka*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202200800. [Selected as a Back Cover Picture]
[Selected as Hot Paper]

Dianion and Dication of Tetracyclopentatetraphenylene as Decoupled Annulene-within-an-Annulene Models
Hirokazu Miyoshi, Ryosuke Sugimura, Ryohei Kishi, Sarah N. Spisak, Zheng Wei, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Nagao Kobayashi, Shreyam Chatterjee, Yutaka Ie, Ichiro Hisaki,* Marina A. Petrukhina,* Tohru Nishinaga,* Masayoshi Nakano,* Yoshito Tobe*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202115316. [Selected as a Cover Picture]
[Selected as VIP (Very Important) Paper]

DFT Study on the Biosynthesis of Asperterpenol and Preasperterpenoid Sesterterpenoids: Exclusion of Secondary Carbocation Intermediates and Origin of Structural Diversification
Kyoka Sakamoto, Hajime Sato,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Org. Chem. 2022, 87, 6432–6437.

Bridged Eosin Y: A Near-infrared Photoredox Catalyst
Masaru Tanioka,* Ayako Kuromiya, Rina Ueda, Tohru Obata, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama and Shinichiro Kamino*
Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 7825-7828.

In situ Generation of N-Triflylimino-λ3-iodanes: Application to Imidation of Phosphines and Catalytic α-Amidation of 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds
Shun Sunagawa, Fumiya Morisaki, Takafumi Baba, Akira Tsubouchi, Akira Yoshimura, Kazunori Miyamoto, Masanobu Uchiyama and Akio Saito*
Org. Lett., 2022, 24, 5230–5234.

A Combined DFT-predictive and Experimental Exploration of the Sensitivity towards Nucleofuge Variation in Zwitterionic Intermediates Relating to Mechanistic Models for Unimolecular Chemical Generation and Trapping of Free C2 and Alternative Bimolecular Pathways Involving No Free C2
Henry S. Rzepa,* Miki Arita, Kazunori Miyamoto,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2022, 24, 25816-25821. [Selected as Hot Paper]

Diamond-rich Crystalline Nanosheets Seeded with a Langmuir Monolayer of Arachidic Acid on Water
Toshihiko Tanaka,* Yasuhiro F. Miura,* Tetsyua Aoyama, Kazunori Miyamoto, Yoshiya Akagi, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Eiji Osawa
RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 26575-26579.

Studies for Absolute Configuration of Chiral 2,6-Cuneanedicarboxylic Acid Esters
Hiyori Takebe, Atsuya Muranaka,* Masanobu Uchiyama,* and Seijiro Matasubara*
Chem. Lett., 2022, 51, 754–755.

Naked-Eye-Detectable Supramolecular Sensing System for Glutaric Acid and Isophthalic Acid
Atsuya Muranaka,* Hayato Ban, Masaya Naito, Shinobu Miyagawa, Masahiro Ueda, Shin Yamamoto, Mei Harada, Hikaru Takaya, Masaki Kimura, Nagao Kobayashi, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Yuji Tokunaga*
Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 2022, 95, 1428–1437. [Selected as BCSJ Award Article] 

Catalytic Direct Hydrocarboxylation of Styrenes with CO2 and H2
Yushu Jin, Joaquim Caner, Shintaro Nishikawa, Naoyuki Toriumi, Nobuharu Iwasawa*
Nature Commun., 2022, 13, 7584.

Shining Visible Light on Reductive Elimination: Acridine-Pd Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Aryl Halides with Carboxylic Acids
Naoyuki Toriumi, Tomonori Inoue, Nobuharu Iwasawa*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 19592–19602.
[Highlighted in SYNFACTS] [Selected in as SYNFACTS of the month]

Visible-Light-Enabled Carboxylation of Benzyl Alcohol Derivatives with CO2 Using a Palladium/Iridium Dual Catalyst
Yushu Jin, Naoyuki Toriumi, Nobuharu Iwasawa*
ChemSusChem 2022, 15, e202102095. [Selected as a Front Cover Picture]

2-Quinolyl Benzodiazaborine: A Tunable Platform for Aggregation-Induced Emission Luminogens via Formation of Dimeric Borate Crystals with Acid Additives
Shunsuke Shimo, Takumu Nakamura, Kohei Takahashi, Naoyuki Toriumi, Nobuharu Iwasawa*
ChemPhotoChem 2022, 6, e202100195.

BOOK & REVIEW

Single-Molecule Laser Nanospectroscopy with μeV Energy Resolution
Hiroshi Imada,* Miyabi Imai-Imada, Kuniyuki Miwa, Hidemasa Yamane, Takeshi Iwasa, Yusuke Tanaka, Naoyuki Toriumi, Kensuke Kimura, Nobuhiko Yokoshi, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Tetsuya Taketsugu, Yuichiro K. Kato, Hajime Ishihara, and Yousoo Kim*
Science, 2021, 373, 95–98.

DFT Study on the Biosynthesis of Verrucosane Diterpenoids and Mangicol Sesterterpenoids: Involvement of Secondary-carbocation-free Reaction Cascades
Hajime Sato,* Bi-Xiao Li, Taisei Takagi, Chao Wang, Kazunori Miyamoto, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
JACS Au, 2021, 1, 1231–1239. (doi: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00178 (Gold Open Access))
[Selected as a Cover Picture]

Stereodivergent Nitrocyclopropane Formation During Biosynthesis of Belactosins and Hormaomycins
Shotaro Shimo,# Richiro Ushimaru,#,* Alicia Engelbrecht, Mei Harada, Kazunori Miyamoto, Andreas Kulik, Masanobu Uchiyama, Leonard Kaysser,* and Ikuro Abe,*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 18413–18418. (#: equall contribution)

Molecular and Computational Bases for Spirofuranone Formation in Setosusin Biosynthesis
Xingxing Wei,# Taro Matsuyama,# Hajime Sato,* Dexiu Yan, Pui Man Chan, Kazunori Miyamoto, Masanobu Uchiyama,* and Yudai Matsuda*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 17708-17715. (#: equall contribution)

Benchtop-Stable Hypervalent Bromine(III) Compounds: Versatile Strategy and Platform for Air- and Moisture-Stable λ3-Bromanes
Kazunori Miyamoto,* Motomichi Saito, Shunsuke Tsuji, Taisei Takagi, Motoo Shiro, Masanobu Uchiyama,* and Masahito Ochiai*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 9327–9331.

Chemical Identification and Bond Control of π-Skeletons in a Coupling Reaction
Chi Zhang, Rafael B. Jaculbia, Yusuke Tanaka, Emiko Kazuma, Hiroshi Imada, Norihiko Hayazawa, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Yousoo Kim*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 9461–9467.

Illuminating Stannylation
Kyoka Sakamoto, Yuki Nagashima,* Chao Wang, Kazunori Miyamoto, Ken Tanaka, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 5629–5635. [Selected as a Cover Picture]
[Highlighted in Web News/Blogs: Eurekalert, 日刊工業新聞, etc.]

Nucleophilic Activation of Hydrosilanes via a Strain-imposing Strategy Leading to Functional Sila-aromatics
Toshiya Ikeuchi, Keiichi Hirano,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 4879–4885. [Selected as a Cover Picture]

α-Cyclodextrin Encapsulation of Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane Derivatives: A Storable Feedstock for Preparation of [1.1.1]Propellane
Tadafumi Matsunaga, Junichiro Kanazawa,* Tomohiro Ichikawa, Mei Harada, Yusuke Nishiyama, Nghia Tuan Duong, Takashi Matsumoto, Kazunori Miyamoto,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 2169–2703.
[Selected as VIP (Very Important) Paper] [Selected as Front Cover]
[Highlighted in Synform]

Boron-Vertex Modification of Carba-closo-dodecaborate for High-Performance Magnesium-Ion Battery Electrolyt
Mamoru Watanabe, Junichiro Kanazawa,* Tomofumi Hamamura,* Takumi Shimokawa, Kazunori Miyamoto, Mitsuhiro Hibino, Kensuke Nakura, Yuu Inatomi, Yu Kitazawa, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Mater. Adv., 2021, 2, 937–941.

Microwave-assisted Photooxidation of Sulfoxides
Yuta Matsukawa, Atsuya Muranaka, Tomotaka Murayama, Masanobu Uchiyama, Hikaru Takaya, Yoichi M. A. Yamada*
Sci. Rep., 2021, 11, 20505 (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-99322-9).

Improvement in aqueous solubility of achiral symmetric cyclofenil by modification to a chiral asymmetric analog
Junki Morimoto, Kazunori Miyamoto, Yuki Ichikawa, Masanobu Uchiyama, Makoto Makishima, Yuichi Hashimoto, Minoru Ishikawa*
Sci. Rep., 2021, 11, 12697 (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-92028-y).
[Selected as Top 100 in Chemistry (Sci. Rep.)]

Rhodium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Synthesis, Structures, and Properties of Single and Double Azahelicene-Like Molecules
Kyoichi Hanada, Juntaro Nogami, Norihiko Hayase, Yuki Nagashima, Yu Shibata, Yusuke Tanaka, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Ken Tanaka*
Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 9313-9319.

Asymmetric Synthesis, Structures, and Chiroptical Properties of Helical Cycloparaphenylenes
Juntaro Nogami, Yuki Nagashima, Kazunori Miyamoto, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Ken Tanaka*
Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 7858-7865.

A Structural Parameter to Link Molecular Geometry to Macroscopic Orientation in Discotic Liquid Crystals: Study of Metalloporphyrin Tapes
Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Atsuya Muranaka, Kenichi Kato, Akinori Saeki, Takayuki Tanaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Atsuhiro Osuka, Takuzo Aida* and Tsuneaki Sakurai*
Chem. Commun., 2021, 1206–1209.

Meta Non-flat Substituents: A Novel Molecular Design to Improving Aqueous Solubility in Small Molecule Drug Discovery
Yuki Ichikawa, Michiaki Hiramatsu, Yusuke Mita, Makoto Makishima, Yotaro Matsumoto, Yui Masumoto, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Yuichi Hashimoto, and Minoru Ishikawa*
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2021, 46, 446–456.

Synthesis of A Mechanically Planar Chiral and Axially Chiral [2]rotaxane
Shinya Tajima, Atsuya Muranaka,* Masaya Naito, Noriho Taniguch, Mei Harada, Shinobu Miyagawa, Masahiro Ueda, Hikaru Takaya, Nagao Kobayashi, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Yuji Tokunaga*
Org. Lett., 2021, 22, 8678–8682.

A Chiral [3]Rotaxane Comprising Achiral Bis-macrocyclic and Dumbbell-Shaped Components
Takaaki Morise,# Atsuya Muranaka,*,# Hayato Ban, Mei Harada, Masaya Naito, Kazuyuki Yoshida, Nagao Kobayashi, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Yuji Tokunaga*
Org. Lett., 2021, 23, 2120–2124. (#: equall contribution)

Synthetic Access to gem-Difluoropropargyl Vinyl Ethers and Their Application to Propargyl Claisen Rearrangement
Toshitaka Okamura, Kenta Koyamada, Junichiro Kanazawa, Kazunori Miyamoto, Yoshiharu Iwabuchi, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Naoki Kanoh*
J. Org. Chem., 2021, 86, 1911–1924.

Synthesis of Homo- and Heterofunctionalized Bay-annulated Indigo Derivatives and Their Properties
Taniyuki Furuyama,* Daichi Tamura, Hajime Maeda, Masahito Segi and Masanobu Uchiyama
Dyes Pigm., 2021, 175, 109535.

Synthesis, Structural Characterization and Optical Properties of Dinaphtho[2,3-b:2′,3′-d]phospholes
Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Atsuya Muranaka, Kenichi Kato, Akinori Saeki, Takayuki Tanaka, Masanobu Mio Matsumura, Takahiro Teramoto, Masato Kawakubo, Masahiko Kawahata, Yuki Murata, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Masanobu Uchiyama and Shuji Yasuike*
Beilstein J. Org. Chem., 2021, 17, 671–677.

CO2-mediated Oxygen Transfer from NaClO-5H2O to Iodoarene: A Highly Practical Synthesis of Iodosylarene
Kazunori Miyamoto,* Yuichiro Watanabe, Taisei Takagi, Tomohide Okada, Takashi Toyama, Shinji Imamura, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
ARKIVOC, 2021, 7, 1-11. (Special Issue: Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry, part 2)
[In memory of Prof. Kilian Muñiz]

Facile Preparation of 1-Hydroxy-1,2-benziodoxol-3(1H)-one 1-oxideE (IBX) and Dess–Martin Reagent Using Sodium Hypochlorite Under Carbon Dioxide
Kazunori Miyamoto,* Tomohide Okada, Takashi Toyama, Shinji Imamura, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
HETEROCYCLES, 2021, 103, 694-698.
[Dedicated to Prof. Yasuyuki Kita on the occasion of his 77th birthday]

Theoretical Study on the Mechanism of Spirocyclization in Spiroviolene Biosynthesis
Hajime Sato,* Taisei Takagi, Kazunori Miyamoto, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Pharm. Bull.,  2021, 69, 1034-1038.
[Selected as Featured Article]

Rhodium-catalyzed meta-Selective C-H Carboxylation Reaction of 1,1-Diarylethylenes via Hydrorhodation-Rhodium Migration
Takanobu Saito, Joaquim Caner, Naoyuki Toriumi, Nobuharu Iwasawa*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 23349–23356.

(Z)-Selective Hydroboration of Terminal Alkynes Catalyzed by a PSP–Pincer Rhodium Complex
Lyu Yanzong, Naoyuki Toriumi, Nobuharu Iwasawa*
Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 9262–9266.

Metal-Free Photoredox-Catalyzed Hydrodefluorination of Fluoroarenes Utilizing Amide Solvent as Reductant
Naoyuki Toriumi, Kazuya Yamashita, Nobuharu Iwasawa*
Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 49, 12635–12641.

Mechanistic Studies into Visible Light-Driven Carboxylation of Aryl Halides/Triflates by the Combined Use of Palladium and Photoredox Catalysts
Naoyuki Toriumi, Katsuya Shimomaki, Joaquim Caner, Kei Murata, Ruben Martin, Nobuharu Iwasawa*
Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2021, 94, 1846–1853.

Use of Isopropyl Alcohol as a Reductant for Catalytic Dehydoxylative Dimerization of Benzylic Alcohols Utilizing Ti−O Bond Photohomolysis
Keiichi Sumiyama, Naoyuki Toriumi, Nobuharu Iwasawa*
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2021, 2474–2478.

Site-to-site peptide transport on a molecular platform using a small-molecule robotic arm
Salma Kassem, Alan T. L. Lee, David A. Leigh,* Augustinas Markevicius, Daniel J. Tetlow, Naoyuki Toriumi
Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 2065–2070.

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Inter-element Boration Reactions of Carbon–Carbon Multiple Bonds via Lewis-Basic Activation of Boron Reagents
Keiichi Hiranoa* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Adv. Synth. Catal., 2021, 2340–2353. [Selected as VIP (Very Important) Paper]
(Special Issue in Boron in Catalysis and Organic Synthesis)

Development of Phthalocyanine-based Functional Molecules with Tunable Optical and Chiroptical Properties
Atsuya Muranaka* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 2021, 94, 872–878. [Selected as a Cover Picture]
(Diamond Collection: Frontiers of Molecular Science)
[Dedicated to Prof. Eiichi Nakamura on the occasion of his 70th birthday]

Hypervalent Organo-λ3-chloranes
Kazunori Miyamoto,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Lett., 2021, 832–838. (Vol. 50 Commemorative Highlight Review)
[Selected as a Cover Picture]

Room-temperature Chemical Synthesis of C2
Kazunori Miyamoto,*,# Shodai Narita,# Yui Masumoto, Takahiro Hashishin, Taisei Osawa, Mutsumi Kimura, Masahito Ochiai, Masanobu Uchiyama*
(#: equall contribution)
Nature Commun., 2020, 11, 2134 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16025-x).
[Highlighted in Nature Research Chemistry Community ]
[Highlighted in Nature Communications Editor's Highlights ]
[Highlighted in Academist Journal ]

DFT Study of a Missing Piece in Brasilane-Type Structure Biosynthesis: An Unusual Skeletal Rearrangement
Hajime Sato* Takahiro Hashishin, Junichiro Kanazawa, Kazunori Miyamoto and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 19830-19834. [Selected as a Cover Picture]

Enantioselective Synthesis of Planar Chiral Zigzag-Type Cyclophenylene Belts by Rhodium-Catalyzed Alkyne Cyclotrimerization
Juntaro Nogami, Yusuke Tanaka, Haruki Sugiyama, Hidehiro Uekusa, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Ken Tanaka*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 9834–9842.

Preparation, Spectroscopic Characterization and Theoretical Study of a Three-Dimensional Conjugated 70 π-Electron Thiophene 6-Mer Radical Cation π-Dimers
Toshihiro Fujiwara, Atsuya Muranaka,* Tohru Nishinaga,* Shinobu Aoyagi,* Nagao Kobayashi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Hiroyuki Otani, and Masahiko Iyoda*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 5933–5937.
[Highlighted in JACS Spotlights][Selected as Cover Picture]

Synthesis of a Black Dye with Absorption Capabilities Across the Visible-to-Near-Infrared Region: A MO-Mixing Approach via Heterometal Coordination of Expanded Porphyrinoid
Yue Wang, Hiroto Kai, Masatoshi Ishida,* Sabapathi Gokulnath, Shigeki Mori, Tomotaka Murayama, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Yuhsuke Yasutake, Susumu Fukatsu, Yusuke Notsuka, Yoshihisa Yamaoka, Mamiko Hanafusa, Michito Yoshizawa,* Gakhyun Kim, Dongho Kim,* and Hiroyuki Furuta*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 6807–6813.

Nucleophilic Diboration Strategy Targeting Diversified 1-Boraphenarene Architectures
Keiichi Hirano* Kensuke Morimoto, Shota Fujioka, Kazunori Miyamoto, Atsuya Muranaka, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 21448–21453.

Biosynthesis of Indole Diterpene Lolitrems: Radical-Induced Cyclization of an Epoxyalcohol Affording a Characteristic Lolitremane Skeleton
Yulu Jiang, Taro Ozaki, Mei Harada, Tadachika Miyasaka, Hajime Sato, Kazunori Miyamoto, Junichiro Kanazawa, Chengwei Liu, Jun-ichi Maruyama, Masaatsu Adachi, Atsuo Nakazaki, Toshio Nishikawa, Masanobu Uchiyama, Atsushi Minami, and Hideaki Oikawa*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 17996-18002.

Near-Infrared-III Absorbing and Emitting Dyes: Energy Gap Engineering of Expanded Porphyrinoids via Metallation
Wang Yue,# Koki Ogasahara,# Daisuke Tomihama, Radomir Mysliborski, Masatoshi Ishida*, Yongseok Hong, Yusuke Notsuka, Yoshihisa Yamaoka, Tomotaka Murayama, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Shigeki Mori, Yuhsuke Yasutake, Susumu Fukatsu, Dongho Kim*, and Hiroyuki Furuta*(#: equall contribution) 
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 16161-16166.

Intramolecular Benzyne–Phenolate [4+2] Cycloadditions
Hiroshi Takikawa, Arata Nishii, Hiromu Takiguchi, Hirotoshi Yagishita, Masato Tanaka, Keiichi Hirano, Masanobu Uchiyama, Ken Ohmori,* and Keisuke Suzuki*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 12440–12444. [In memory of Prof. Rolf Huisgen]

Rhodium-Catalyzed Highly Diastereo- and Enantioselective Synthesis of A Configurationally Stable S-Shaped [11]Helicene-Like Molecule
Suzuka Kinoshita, Ryota Yamano, Yu Shibata, Yusuke Tanaka, Takashi Matsumoto, Kazunori
Miyamoto, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Ken Tanaka*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 11020-11027.

Sila- and Germa-Carboxylic Acids: Precursors for the Corresponding Silyl and Germyl Radicals
Ning-Xin Xu,# Bi-Xiao Li,# Chao Wang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*(#: equall contribution) 
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 10639-10644.

Shimalactone Biosynthesis Involves Spontaneous Double Bicyclo‐Ring Formation with 8π‐6π Electrocyclization
Isao Fujii,* Makoto Hashimoto, Kaori Konishi, Akiko Unezawa, Haruka Sakuraba, Kenta Suzuki, Harue Tsushima, Miho Iwasaki, Satsuki Yoshida, Akane Kudo, Rina Fujita, Aika Hichiwa, Koharu Saito, Takashi Asano, Jun Ishikawa, Daigo Wakana, Yukihiro Goda, Ayumi Watanabe, Mamoru Watanabe, Yui Masumoto, Junichiro Kanazawa, Hajime Sato, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 8464–8470.

A Direct S0→Tn Transition Sheds Light on the Mystery of Photoreaction of Heavy-Atom-Containing Molecules
Masaya Nakajima,* Sho Nagasawa, Koki Matsumoto, Takahito Kuribara, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Tetsuhiro Nemoto*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 6847–6852.

Silaboration of [1.1.1]Propellane: Storable Feedstock for Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane Derivatives
Masaki Kondo, Junichiro Kanazawa,* Tomohiro Ichikawa, Takumi Shimokawa, Yuki Nagashima, Kazunori Miyamoto, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 1970–1974. [Highlighted in SYNFACTS]

Ring-Opened Hemiporphyrazines: Helical Molecules Exhibiting Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Yusuke Tanaka,# Tomotaka Murayama,# Atsuya Muranaka,* Eiyu Imai, and Masanobu Uchiyama* (#: equall contribution) 
Chem. Eur. J., 2020, 26, 1768–1771.

Copper-Catalyzed Electrophilic Etherification of Arylboronic Esters with Isoxazolidines
Seiya Katahara, Tenga Takahashi, Kengo Nomura, Masanobu Uchiyama,*, Takaaki Sato,*, Noritaka Chida*
Chem. Asian J., 2020, 15, 1869-1872. [Selected as VIP (Very Important) Paper]

Decarboxylative Bromination of Sterically Hindered Carboxylic Acids with Hypervalent Iodine(III) Reagents
Ayumi Watanabe,# Kenta Koyamada,# Kazunori Miyamoto,* Junichiro Kanazawa, Masanobu Uchiyama*(#: equall contribution) 
Org. Process Res. Dev., 2020, 24, 1328–1334.
[Highlighted in Organic Chemistry Portal]

Lipshutz-type Bis(amido)argentate for Directed ortho Argentation
Noriyuki Tezuka,* Keiichi Hirano,* Andrew J. Peel, Andrew E. H. Wheatley, Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 1855–1861.

A Remarkably Air-Stable Quinodimethane Radical Cation
Mei Harada,# Masaru Tanioka,# Atsuya Muranaka,* Tetsuya Aoyama, Shinichiro Kamino, and Masanobu Uchiyama* (#: equall contribution) 
Chem. Commun., 2020, 9565–9568.

Cubane Chirality via Substitution of “Hidden” Regular Tetrahedron
Nana Yoshino, Yumi Kato, Yuuya Nagata, Craig M. Williams, Mei Harada, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Seijiro Matsubara*
Org. Lett., 2020, 22, 4083–4087.

Synthetic Studies on Pactamycin: a Synthesis of Johnson’s Intermediate
Yusuke Miura, Hitoshi Ouchi, Makoto Inai, Taisei Osawa, Junichiro Kanazawa, Masanobu Uchiyama, Mitsuru Kondo, and Toshiyuki Kan*
Org. Lett., 2020, 22, 3515–3518.

Shelf-stable (E)- and (Z)-Vinyl-λ3-chlorane: A Stereospecific Hyper-vinylating Agent
Yuichiro Watanabe, Taisei Takagi, Kazunori Miyamoto,* Junichiro Kanazawa, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Org. Lett., 2020, 22, 3469–3473.

BF3-Catalyzed Skeletal Rearrangement of 7-En-2-ynones to endo-Type Cyclic Dienes
Daisuke Sato, Yuichiro Watanabe, Keiichi Noguchi, Junichiro Kanazawa, Kazunori Miyamoto, Masanobu Uchiyama,* and Akio Saito*
Org. Lett., 2020, 22, 4063–4067. [Selected as Frontispiece]

Super-chiral vibrational spectroscopy with metasurfaces for high-sensitive identification of alanine enantiomers
Takumi Iida, Atsushi Ishikawa, Takuo Tanaka, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Yasuhiko Hayashi, and Kenji Tsuruta*
Appl. Phys. Lett., 2020, 117, 101103.

Helicenes Fused with Hexafluorocyclopentene (HFCP): Synthesis, Structure, and Properties
Tomohiro Agou,* Masaki Kohara, Yuuki Tamura, Keisuke Yamada, Katsuki Shiizuka, Takaaki Hosoya, Yoshiyuki Mizuhata, Norihiro Tokitoh, Yuki Hayashi, Yusuke Moronuki, Akihiko Ishii, Yusuke Tanaka, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Shigeyuki Yamada, Tsutomu Konno, Hiroki Fukumoto,* Toshio Kubota*
Eur. J. Org. Chem, 2020, 1871–1880.

Practical Synthesis of Ethynyl(phenyl)-λ3-iodane Using Calcium Carbide as an Ethynyl Group Source
Takahiro Hashishin, Taisei Osawa, Kazunori Miyamoto,* Masanobu Uchiyama*
Front. Chem., 2020, 8, 12.
[Special Issue in New Hypervalent Iodine Reagents for Oxidative Coupling]

DFT Study on the Biosynthesis of Preasperterpenoid A: Role of Secondary Carbocations in the Carbocation Cascade
Hajime Sato,* Mami Yamazaki, and Masanobu Uchiyama,*
Chem. Pharm. Bull., 2020, 68, 487–490.

1-Phosphino-1,3-butadiene Derivatives Incorporated with Dibenzobarrelene Skeleton: Synthesis and Photophysical Properties
Akihiko Ishii,* Chiharu Kikushima, Yuki Hayashi, Nobuhiko Ohtsuka, Norio Nakata, Atsuya Muranaka, Yusuke Tanaka, and Masanobu Uchiyama
Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 2020, 93, 1430–1442. (Advance Publication)

Analysis of Nitrogen Mustard Degradation Products via Post-pentafluorobenzoylation Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Mai Otsuka,* Hajime Miyaguchia, Masanobu Uchiyama
J. Chromatogr. A, 2020, 461306.

Chennat-Type Synthesis of 1,4-Dihydropyridine Derivatives in Water: Role of a Hydrogen-Bonding Network
Shigeki Isomura, Mayu Anzai, Chieka Kobayashi, Yoshinori Okuno, Kazunori Miyamoto, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Yasuo Sato*
ChemistrySelect, 2020, 5, 2075 –2077.

Synthesis and Properties of Liquid Pyrazine Dyes
Jae-Young Lee, Tetsuya Aoyama, Masanobu Uchiyama, Shinya Matsumoto*
Dyes Pigm., 2020, 174, 108030.

Zn(II)2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline stimulates cultured bovine aortic endothelial cell proliferation
Takehiro Nakamura, Eiko Yoshida, Chika Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Fujiwara, Ryo Takita, Masanobu Uchiyama* and Toshiyuki Kaji*
RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 42327–42337.

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Evolving Fluorophores into Circularly Polarized Luminophores with a Chiral Naphthalene Tetramer: Proposal of Excimer Chirality Rule for Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Kazuto Takaishi,* Kazuhiro Iwachido, Ryosuke Takehana, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Tadashi Ema*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 6185–6190.

Diaryl-λ3-chloranes: Versatile Synthesis and Unique Reactivity as Aryl Cation Equivalent
Misuzu Nakajima, Kazunori Miyamoto,* Keiichi Hirano, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 6499–6503.

Quadruple Borylation of Terminal Alkynes
Daiki Yukimori, Yuki Nagashima,* Chao Wang, Atsuya Muranaka, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 9819–9822.

Synthesis of Belt- and Möbius-Shaped Cycloparaphenylenes by Rhodium-Catalyzed Alkyne Cyclotrimerization
Shuhei Nishigaki, Yu Shibata, Atsuya Nakajima, Hajime Okajima, Yui Masumoto, Taisei Osawa, Atsuya Muranaka, Haruki Sugiyama, Ayano Horikawa, Hidehiro Uekusa, Hiroyuki Koshino, Masanobu Uchiyama, Akira Sakamoto, and Ken Tanaka*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 14955–14960.[Selected as Cover Picture]

Design of Photostable, Activatable Near-Infrared Photoacoustic Probes Using Tautomeric Benziphthalocyanine as a Platform
Naoyuki Toriumi,* Norihito Asano, Takayuki Ikeno, Atsuya Muranaka, Kenjiro Hanaoka, Yasuteru Urano, and Masanobu Uchiyama* 
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 7788-7791.

Non-Transition Metal-Mediated Diverse Aryl–Heteroatom Bond Formation of Arylammonium Salts
Dong-Yu Wang, Xin Wen, Chao-Dong Xiong, Jian-Nan Zhao, Chun-Yong Ding, Qian Meng, Hu Zhou, Chao Wang, Masanobu Uchiyama, Xiao-Jie Lu,* and Ao Zhang*
iScience, 2019, 15, 307–315.

Characterization of A Small Molecule that Promotes Cell Cycle Activation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocytes
Masamichi Ito,# Hironori Hara,# Norifumi Takeda, Atsuhiko T. Naito, Seitaro Nomura, Masaki Kondo, Yutaka Hata, Masanobu Uchiyama, Hiroyuki Morita, and Issei Komuro*
J. Mol. Cell. Cardiol., 2019, 128, 95.

A Protocol for an Iodine–Metal Exchange Reaction on Cubane Using Lithium Organozincates
Yumi Kato, Craig M. Williams, Masanobu Uchiyama and Seijiro Matsubara*
Org. Lett., 2019, 21, 473-475.

Hemisquaramide Tweezers as Organocatalysts: Synthesis of Cyclic Carbonates from Epoxides and CO2
Kazuto Takaishi,* Takafumi Okuyama, Shota Kadosaki, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Tadashi Ema*
Org. Lett., 2019, 5, 1397–1401.

Alkynylboration Reaction Leading to Boron-containing π-Extended cis-Stilbenes as a Highly Tunable Fluorophore
Marina Nogami, Keiichi Hirano,* Kensuke Morimoto, Masaru Tanioka, Kazunori Miyamoto,  Atsuya Muranaka, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Org. Lett., 2019, 21, 3392–3395.

A Direct, Chemo-, and Regioselective Cross-Coupling Reaction of Arenes via Sequential Directed ortho Cuprations and Oxidation
Noriyuki Tezuka, Keiichi Hirano,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Org. Lett., 2019, 21, 9536–9540.

Organic Monolithic Natural Hyperbolic Material
Yeon Ui Lee, Olivier P. M. Gaudin, KwangJin Lee, Eunyoung Choi, Virginie Placide, Kazuto Takaishi, Tsuyoshi Muto, Pascal André, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Fabrice Mathevet, Tetsuya Aoyama, JeongWeon Wu,* Anthony D’Aléo,* and Jean-Charles Ribierre*
ACS Photonics, 2019, 6,1681–1689.

Photo-Induced C(sp3)–N Bond Cleavage Leading to Stereoselective Syntheses of Alkenes
Ze-Kun Yang,# Ning-Xin Xu,# Chao Wang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*(#: equall contribution) 
Chem. Eur. J., 2019, 25, 5433–5439.

Synthesis of All Stereoisomers of Monomeric Spectomycin A1/A2 and Evaluation of Their Protein SUMOylation-Inhibitory Activity
Yusaku Nomura, Frédéric Thuaud, Daisuke Sekine, Akihiro Ito, Satoko Maeda, Hiroyuki Koshino, Daisuke Hashizume, Atsuya Muranaka, Thomas Cruchter, Masanobu Uchiyama, Satoshi Ichikawa, Akira Matsuda, Minoru Yoshida, Go Hirai,* and Mikiko Sodeoka* 
Chem. Eur. J., 2019, 25, 8387-8392.

A Solvent-free and Vacuum-free Melt-processing Method to Fabricate Highly Crystalline Organic Semiconducting Layers for Organic Electronic Applications
Jean-Charles Ribierre*, Li Zhao, Xiao Liu, Emmanuelle Lacaze, Benoît Heinrich, Stephane Méry, Piotr Sleczkowski, Yiming Xiao, Frédéric Lafolet, Daisuke Hashizume, Tetsuya Aoyama, Masanobu Uchiyama, Jeong Weon Wu, Elena Zaborova, Frederic Fages, Anthony D’Aléo,* Fabrice Mathevet* and Chihaya Adachi*
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 3190–3198.

Synthetic and Biological Studies of Juglorubin and Related Naphthoquinones
Shogo Kamo, Tatsuo Saito, Yasuha Kusakabe, Shusuke Tomoshige, Masanobu Uchiyama, Kazunori Tsubaki, Kouji Kuramochi*
J. Org. Chem., 2019, 13957–13966.

A New Route to the Efficient Metalation of Unfunctionalized Aromatics
Andrew J. Peel, Noriyuki Tezuka, James M. D’Rozario, Masanobu Uchiyama* and Andrew E. H. Wheatley*
Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 3385-3400.

Organocopper Cross-coupling Reaction for C–C Bond Formation on Highly Sterically Hindered Structures
Miku Oi, Ryo Takita,* Junichiro Kanazawa, Atsuya Muranaka, Chao Wang and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 6107-6112.

Cationic Axial Ligands on Sulfur Substituted Silicon(IV) Phthalocyanines: Improved Hydrophilicity and Exceptionally Red-shifted Absorption into the NIR Region
Taniyuki Furuyama,* Takashi Ishii, Naoya Ieda, Hajime Maeda, Masahito Segi, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Hidehiko Nakagawa
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 7311-7314.

Highly regioselective [2+2+2] cycloaddition reaction using allene-ynes with simple allenes under nickel catalysis
Shigeru Arai,* Arisa Izaki, Yuka Amako, Masaya Nakajima, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Atsushi Nishida
Adv. Synth. Catal., 2019, 4882–4887.
[Selected as VIP (Very Important) Paper] [Selected as Frontispiece]

In Situ Generation of Silyl Anion Species with Si–B Bond Activation Allowing Concerted Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution of Fluoroarenes
Kumiko Kojima, Yuki Nagashima, Chao Wang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
ChemPlusChem, 2019, 84, 277-280.

Aromatic butenolides produced by a soil ascomycete Auxarthron sp. KCB15F070
derived from a volcanic island
Jong Won Kim, Sangkeun Son, Gil Soo Kim, Junnosuke Otaka, Yuzuki Miura,
Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Jung-Sook Lee, Mina Jang, Sung-Kyun Ko,
Shunji Takahashi, Hiroyuki Osada, Jae-Hyuk Janga, Jong Seog Ahn*
Tetrahedron Lett., 2019, 60, 151227.

Enantioselective deprotometalation of N,N-dialkyl ferrocenecarboxamides using metal amides
Madani Hedidi, Gandrath Dayaker, Yu Kitazawa,* Yoshii Tatsuya, Mutsumi Kimura,
William Erb,* Ghenia Bentabed-Ababsa, Floris Chevallier, Masanobu Uchiyama,
Philippe C. Gros, and Florence Mongin*
New. J. Chem., 2019, 43, 14898–14907.

Inherent Atomic Mobility Changes in Carbocation Intermediates during the Sesterterpene Cyclization Cascade
Hajime Sato,* Takaaki Mitsuhashi, Mami Yamazaki, Ikuro Abe, and Masanobu Uchiyama
Beilstein J. Org. Chem., 2019, 15, 1890–1897.
[Special Issue in Reactive Intermediates – Carbocations]

Analysis of Degradation Products of Nitrogen Mustards via Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Mai Otsuka,* Hajime Miyaguchi, Masanobu Uchiyama
J. Chromatogr. A, 2019, 199–205.

Efficient Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Optical Properties of 6H‐Dibenzo[b,h]carbazole and its Derivatizations
Mio Matsumura, Masatoshi. Kawahata, Atsuya Muranaka,* Miyuki Hiraiwa, Naoki Kakusawa, Kentaro Yamaguchi,* Masanobu Uchiyama, Shuji Yasuike*
Eur. J. Org. Chem, 2019, 3788–3793.

Electronic states of 3D aromatic molecules on Au(111) surfaces: Adsorption of Carboranethiol
Takuto Aoki* Yuta Nakahama, Tadao Ikeda, Masako Shindo, Masanobu Uchiyama, Ken-ichi Shudo 
J. Mater. Sci., 2019, 10249–10260.

Palladium-Catalyzed Visible-Light-Driven Carboxylation of Aryl and Alkenyl Triflates by Using Photoredox Catalysts
Katsuya Shimomaki, Tomoya Nakajima, Joaquim Caner, Naoyuki Toriumi, Nobuharu Iwasawa*
Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 4486–4489.

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理論計算による生合成経路の探索 ー生合成リデザインへの挑戦ー
（特集：天然物化学研究の新展開）（話題）
佐藤 玄・王 超・内山 真伸
ファルマシア, 2019, 55, 684–688.

Cross-coupling polycondensation via C–O or C–N bond cleavage
Ze-Kun Yang, Ning-Xin Xu, Ryo Takita, Atsuya Muranaka, Chao Wang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Nature Commun., 2018, 9, 1587.
Highlighted in Nature Communications Editors' Highlights [Link] and ChemistryViews [Link]

Stable Thiele’s Hydrocarbon Derivatives Exhibiting Near-Infrared Absorption/Emission and Two-Step Electrochromism.
Yuta Okamoto, Masaru Tanioka,* Atsuya Muranaka,* Kazunori Miyamoto, Tetsuya Aoyama, Xingmei Ouyang, Shinichiro Kamino, Daisuke Sawada, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 17857-17861.

Structural and Computational Bases for Dramatic Skeletal Rearrangement in Anditomin Biosynthesisy.
Yu Nakashima,# Takaaki Mitsuhashi,# Yudai Matsuda,# Miki Senda, Hajime Sato, Mami Yamazaki, Masanobu Uchiyama,* Toshiya Senda,* and Ikuro Abe*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 9743–9750. (#: equall contribution)

Development of a Series of Practical Fluorescent Chemical Tools To Measure pH Values in Living Samples
Shodai Takahashi, Yu Kagami, Kenjiro Hanaoka,* Takuya Terai, Toru Komatsu, Tasuku Ueno, Masanobu Uchiyama, Ikuko Honda, Noboru Mizushima, Tomohiko Taguchi, Hiroyuki Arai, Tetsuo Nagano and Yasuteru Urano*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 5925–5933.

N-Alkynylpyridinium Salts: Highly Electrophilic Alkyne-Pyridine Conjugates as Precursors of Cationic Nitrogen-Embedded Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Naoyuki Toriumi,* Norihito Asano, Kazunori Miyamoto, Atsuya Muranaka, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 3858–3862.

Computational Studies on Biosynthetic Carbocation Rearrangements leading to Quiannulatene: Initial Conformation Regulates Biosynthetic Route, Stereochemistry, and Type of Skeleton
Hajime Sato,* Takaaki Mitsuhashi, Mami Yamazaki, Ikuro Abe,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 14752-14757.

Control of the Stereochemical Course of [4+2] Cycloaddition during trans-Decalin Formation by Fsa2-Family Enzymes
Naoki Kato,* Toshihiko Nogawa, Ryo Takita, Kiyomi Kinugasa, Misae Kanai, Masanobu Uchiyama, Hiroyuki Osada, and Shunji Takahashi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 9754–9758.
[Selected as VIP (Very Important) Paper][Highlighted in SYNFACTS]

In Situ Generation of Silylzinc by Si–B Bond Activation Enabling Silylzincation and Silaboration of Terminal Alkynes
Yuki Nagashima,* Daiki Yukimori, Chao Wang, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 27, 8053–8057.
[Selected as Hot Paper][Highlighted in SYNFACTS]

From Aniline to Aryl Ether: A Facile, Efficient and Versatile Synthetic Protocol Employing Mild Conditions
Dong-Yu Wang, Ze-Kun Yang, Chao Wang,* Ao Zhang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 3641–3635.

"Dumbbell"- and "Clackers"-Shaped Dimeric Derivatives of Monocarba-closo-dodecaborate
Yu Kitazawa,* Mamoru Watanabe, Yui Masumoto, Mai Otsuka, Kazunori Miyamoto, Atsuya Muranaka, Daisuke Hashizume, Ryo Takita, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 1501–1504.

Discovery of a small molecule to increase cardiomyocytes and protect the heart after ischemic injury.
Hironori Hara, Norifumi Takeda,* Masaki Kondo, Mio Kubota, Tatsuo Saito, Junichi Maruyama, Takayuki Fujiwara, Sonoko Maemura, Masamichi Ito, Atsuhiko T. Naito, Mutsuo Harada, Haruhiro Toko, Seitaro Nomura, Hidetoshi Kumagai, Yuichi Ikeda, Hiroo Ueno, Eiki Takimoto, Hiroshi Akazawa, Hiroyuki Morita, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Yutaka Hata, Masanobu Uchiyama,* Issei Komuro*
JACC Basic Transl Sci., 2018, 3, 639-653.

Theoretical Study of Sesterfisherol Biosynthesis: Computational Prediction of Key Amino Acid Residue in Terpene Synthase
Hajime Sato*, Koji Narita, Atsushi Minami, Mami Yamazaki, Chao Wang, Hironori Suemune, Shingo Nagano, Takeo Tomita, Hideaki Oikawa, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Sci. Rep., 2018, 8, 2473.

Direct Synthesis of Aryl-annulated [c]Carbazoles by Gold(I)-catalysed Cascade Reaction of Azide-diynes and Arenes
Yuiki Kawada,# Shunsuke Ohmura,# Misaki Kobayashi, Wataru Nojo, Masaki Kondo, Yuka Matsuda, Junpei Matsuoka, Shinsuke Inuki, Shinya Oishi, Chao Wang, Tatsuo Saito, Masanobu Uchiyama,* Takanori Suzuki,* and Hiroaki Ohno* (#: equall contribution)
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 8416-8425.

Near-Infrared Fluorescence from In-Plane-Aromatic Cycloparaphenylene Dications.
Yui Masumoto, Naoyuki Toriumi,  Atsuya Muranaka,* Eiichi Kayahara, Shigeru Yamago,* Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Phy. Chem. A, 2018, 122, 5162–5167.

Computational Study on a Puzzle in the Biosynthetic Pathway of Anthocyanin: Why is an Enzymatic Oxidation/ Reduction Process Required for a Simple Tautomerization?
Hajime Sato, Chao Wang, Mami Yamazaki, Kazuki Saito*, Masanobu Uchiyama*
PLoS ONE, 2018, 13(6): e0198944.

Safer Synthesis of (Diacetoxyiodo)arenes using Sodium Hypochlorite Pentahydrate (NaClO•5H2O)
Ayumi Watanabe, Kazunori Miyamoto,* Tomohide Okada, Tomotake Asawa, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Org. Chem, 2018, 83, 14262–14268.
[Selected as Featured Article][Highlighted in OPR&D (Org. Process Res. Dev., 2019, 23, 1-8)]

Mechanistic Study on Aryl Exchange Reaction of Diaryl-λ3-iodane with Aryl Iodide
Yui Masumoto, Kazunori Miyamoto,* Takuto Iuchi, Masahito Ochiai, Keiichi Hirano, Tatsuo Saito, Chao Wang, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Org. Chem., 2018, 83, 289–295.

Deprotonative Metalation of Methoxy-Substituted Arenes Using Lithium 2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidide: Experimental and Computational Study
Gaku Akimoto, Mai Otsuka, Ryo Takita, Masanobu Uchiyama,* Madani Hedidi, Ghenia Bentabed-Ababsa, Frédéric Lassagne, William Erb, and Florence Mongin*
J. Org. Chem, 2018, 83, 13498-13506.

One-pot Annulation for Biaryl-fused Monocarba-closo-dodecaborate via Aromatic B–H Bond Disconnection
Gaku Akimoto, Mai Otsuka, Kazunori Miyamoto, [Atsuya Muranaka, Daisuke Hashizume, Ryo Takita* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Asian J., 2018, 13, 913–917.

Synthesis of a chiral [2]rotaxane: Induction of a helical structure through double threading
Toshihiro Tsukamoto, Ryota Sasahara, Atsuya Muranaka,* Yuzuki Miura, Yu Suzuki, Masaki Kimura, Shinobu Miyagawa, Tsuneomi Kawasaki, Nagao Kobayashi,* Masanobu Uchiyama, and Yuji Tokunaga*
Org. Lett., 2018, 20, 4745–4748.

Analysis of Degradation Products of Nerve Agents via Post-pentafluorobenzylation Lliquid Chromatography-tandem Mass Spectrometry
Mai Otsuka*, Koichiro Tsuge, Yasuo Seto, Hajime Miyaguchi, Masanobu Uchiyama
J. Chromatogr. A, 2018, 1577.

The Energetic Viability of ∆1-Piperideine Dimerization in Lysine-derived Alkaloid Biosynthesis
Hajime Sato, Masanobu Uchiyama, Kazuki Saito, and Mami Yamazaki*
Metabolites, 2018, 8, 48.

Influence of perfluorinated ionomer in PEDOT:PSS on the rectification and degradation of organic photovoltaic cells.
Calvyn T. Howells,* Sueda Saylan, Haeri Kim, Khalid Marbou, Tetsua Aoyama, Aiko Nakao, Masanobu Uchiyama, Ifor D.W. Samuel, Dong-Wook Kim, Marcus S. Dahlem and Pascal André*
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 16012–16028.

Simultaneous Edge-on to Face-on Reorientation and 1D Alignment of Small π-Conjugated Molecules Using Room-Temperature Mechanical Rubbing
Jean-Charles Ribierre,* Toshihiko Tanaka,* Li Zhao, Yuki Yokota, Shinya Matsumoto, Daisuke Hashizume, Kazuto Takaishi, Tsuyoshi Muto, Benoit Heinrich, Stéphane Méry, Fabrice Mathevet, Toshinori Matsushima, Masanobu Uchiyama, Chihaya Adachi,* and Tetsuya Aoyama*
Adv. Funct. Mater., 2018, 1707038.

Dearylation of Arylphosphine Oxides by a Sodium Hydride-Iodide Composite
Ciputra Tejo, Jia Hao Pang, Derek Yiren Ong, Miku Oi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Ryo Takita* and Shunsuke Chiba*
Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 1782–1785.

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「Lewis 塩基によるホウ素試薬の活性化を基盤とした ホウ素化反応の開発」
平野 圭一・内山 真伸
Organometallic News
近畿化学協会有機金属部会, 2018, 2–7.

Radical Multicomponent Carboamination of [1.1.1]Propellane
Junichiro Kanazawa,* Katsuya Maeda, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 17791–17794.

Transition Metal-Free trans-Selective Alkynylboration of Alkynes
Marina Nogami, Keiichi Hirano,*, Misae Kanai, Chao Wang, Tatsuo Saito, Kazunori Miyamoto, Atsuya Muranaka, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 12358–12361.
Highlighted in Academist Journal [Link]

Naked d-Orbital in a Centrochiral Ni(II) Complex as a Catalyst for Asymmetric [3+2] Cycloaddition
Yoshihiro Sohtome,* Genta Nakamura, Atsuya Muranaka, Daisuke Hashizume,*
Sylvain Lectard, Teruhisa Tsuchimoto, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Mikiko Sodeoka*
Nature Commun., 2017, 8, 14785.
Highlighted in RIKEN Research Highlights [Link]

One-step Conversion of Levulinic Acid to Succinic Acid Using I2 / t-BuOK System: The Iodoform Reaction Revisited.
Ryosuke Kawasumi, Shodai Narita, Kazunori Miyamoto,* Ken-ichi Tominaga, Ryo Takita, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Sci. Rep., 2017, 7, 17967.

Discovery and Mechanistic Characterization of Selective Inhibitors of H2S-producing Enzyme: 3-Mercaptopyruvate Sulfurtransferase (3MST) Targeting Active-site Cysteine Persulfide
Kenjiro Hanaoka,* Kiyoshi Sasakura, Yusuke Suwanai, Sachiko Toma-Fukai, Kazuhito Shimamoto, Yoko Takano, Norihiro Shibuya, Takuya Terai, Toru Komatsu, Tasuku Ueno, Yuki Ogasawara, Yukihiro Tsuchiya, Yasuo Watanabe, Hideo Kimura, Chao Wang, Masanobu Uchiyama, Hirotatsu Kojima, Takayoshi Okabe, Yasuteru Urano, Toshiyuki Shimizu, and Tetsuo Nagano*
Sci. Rep., 2017, 7, 40277.

Nucleophilic Amination of Methoxy Arenes by a Sodium Hydride-Iodide Composite
Atsushi Kaga, Hirohito Hayashi, Hiroyuki Hakamata, Miku Oi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Ryo Takita* and Shunsuke Chiba*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 11807–11811.

Effects of N-Oxidation on Heteroaromatic Macrocycles: Synthesis, Electronic Structures, Spectral Properties, and Reactivities of Tetraazaporphyrin meso-N-Oxides
Naoyuki Toriumi,* Shunsuke Yanagi, Atsuya Muranaka,* Daisuke Hashizume, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Eur. J., 2017, 23, 8309–8314.

Organozinc-Mediated Direct C–C Bond Formation via C–N Bond Cleavage of Ammonium Salt
Dong-Yu Wang,# Koki Morimoto,# Ze-Kun Yang, Chao Wang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Asian J., 2017, 12, 2554–2557. (#: equall contribution)

"Naked" Lithium Cation: Strongly Activated Metal Cations Facilitated by Carborane Anions
Yu Kitazawa, Ryo Takita,*, Kengo Yoshida, Atsuya Muranaka, Seijiro Matsubara, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Org. Chem., 2017, 82, 1931–1935.

Focused Genome Mining of Structurally Related Sesterterpenes: Enzymatic Formation of Enantiomeric and Diastereomeric Products
Koji Narita, Hajime Sato, Atsushi Minami,* Kosei Kudo, Lei Gao, Chengwei Liu, Taro Ozaki, Motoichiro Kodama, Xiaoguang Lei, Tohru Taniguchi, Kenji Monde, Mami Yamazaki, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Hideaki Oikawa*
Org. Lett., 2017, 29, 6696–6699.

Hitoyol A and B, Two Norsesquiterpenoids from the Basidiomycete Coprinopsis cinerea
Junnosuke Otaka, Daisuke Hashizume, Yui Masumoto, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Hiroyuki Koshino, Yushi Futamura, Hiroyuki Osada*
Org. Lett., 2017, 19, 4030–4033.

Monomeric Octahedral Ruthenium(II) Complex Enabled meta C-H Nitration of Arenes with Removable Auxiliaries
Zhoulong Fan, Jie Li, Heng Lu, Dong-Yu Wang,Chao Wang, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Ao Zhang*
Org. Lett., 2017, 19, 3199–3202.

Revisit of Organoaluminum Reagents Affords A Versatile Protocol for C–X (X = N, O, F) Bond-Cleavage Cross-Coupling: A Systematic Study
Hiroyuki Ogawa, Ze-Kun Yang, Hiroki Minami, Kumiko Kojima, Tatsuo Saito, Chao Wang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 3988–3994.

Quasi-Phase Diagrams at Air/Oil Interfaces and Bulk Oil Phases for Crystallization of Small-Molecular Semiconductors by Adjusting Gibbs Adsorption
Satoshi Watanabe,* Takahisa Ohta, Ryota Urata, Tetsuya Sato, Kazuto Takaishi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Tetsuya Aoyama, and Masashi Kunitake*
Langmuir, 2017, 33, 8906−8913.

Iodoarene-catalyzed Oxidative Transformations Using Molecular Oxygen
Kazunori Miyamoto,*, Junpei Yamashita, Shodai Narita, Keiichi Hirano,Tatsuo Saito, Chao Wang, Masahito Ochiai, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 9781-9784.

Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Novel Benzophospholo[3,2-b]indole Derivatives
Mio Matsumura, Mizuki Yamada, Atsuya Muranaka*, Misae Kanai, Naoki Kakusawa, Daisuke Hashizume, Masanobu Uchiyama, Shuji Yasuike*
Beilstein J. Org. Chem., 2017, 13, 2304-2309.

Water-Tunable Solvatochromic and Nanoaggregate Fluorescence: Dual Colour Visualisation and Quantification of Trace Water in Tetrahydrofuran
Masaru Tanioka, Shinichiro Kamino,* Atsuya Muranaka, Yoshinao Shirasaki, Yousuke Ooyama, Masashi Ueda, Masanobu Uchiyama, Shuichi Enomoto, and Daisuke Sawada*
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 1209-1216.

Mechanistic Insight into Ni-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Involving Organoaluminum-Mediated C–O Bond Cleavage. A DFT Study
Ze-Kun Yang, Chao Wang* Masanobu Uchiyama*
Synlett, 2017, 28, 6696–6699 (SYNLETT Cluster on C–O Activation).

Ethereal C-O Bond Cleavage Mediated by Ni(0)-Ate Complex: A DFT Study
Kumiko Kojima, Ze-Kun Yang, Chao Wang, * Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Pharm. Bull., 2017, 65, 862–868.
[Selected as Highlighted paper selected by Editor-in-Chief ]

Unexpected Formation of Benziphthalocyanine Dimer: An Easily Synthesizable Dimer of Phthalocyanine Analogue
Naoyuki Toriumi, Atsuya Muranaka,* Daisuke Hashizume and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Tetrahedron Lett., 2017, 58, 2267–2271.
[Selected as Front Cover Picture ]

Catalytic Aromatic Borylation via in situ-generated Borenium Species
Mio Matsumura, Atsuya Muranaka,* Rina Kurihara, Misae Kanai, Kengo Yoshida, Naoki Kakusawa, Fumiya Kitani, Ryo Takita,* Tatsushi Imahori, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
HETEROCYCLES, 2017, 95, 158-166.
[Prof. M. Shibasaki's Special Issue]

Reversibility of 3-Phenyl-2-oxindole Dimer Formation: Application to Construct Compounds with Two Distinct Vicinal All-Carbon Quaternary Centers
Yoshihiro Sohtome,* Masumi Sugawara, Daisuke Hashizume, Daiki Hojo, Miki Sawamura, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Mikiko Sodeoka*
HETEROCYCLES, 2017, 95, 1030-1040.
[Prof. M. Shibasaki's Special Issue]

Catalyst-Dependent Intrinsic Ring-Walking Behavior on π-Face of Conjugated Polymers
Koichiro Mikami,* Masataka Nojima, Yui Masumoto, Yoshihide Mizukoshi, Ryo Takita, Tsutomu Yokozawa,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Polymer Chemistry, 2017,8, 1708-1713.

BOOK & REVIEW

「反応経路を結び、人を繋ぐ、GRRM 〜AFIR誕生への一コマ〜」
内山 真伸
IQCE_News,
量子化学探索研究所, 2017, 11月号.

Stille Coupling via C–N Bond Cleavage
Dong-Yu Wang, Masatoshi Kawahata, Ze-Kun Yang, Kazunori Miyamoto, Shinsuke Komagawa, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Chao Wang* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Nature. Commun., 2016, 7, 12937.
Highlighted in Synform [Link]

Direct Hydroxylation and Amination of Arenes via Deprotonative Cupration
Noriyuki Tezuka, Kohei Shimojo, Keiichi Hirano,* Shinsuke Komagawa, Kengo Yoshida, Chao Wang, Kazunori Miyamoto, Tatsuo Saito, Ryo Takita, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 9166–9171.
[Highlighted in SYNFACTS]

Mechanistic Studies on the Generation and Properties of Super-electrophilic Singlet Carbenes from Bis(perfluoroalkanesulfonyl)bromonium Ylides
Kazunori Miyamoto,* Susumu Iwasaki, Ryusuke Doi, Taiga Ota, Yufuko Kawano, Junpei Yamashita, Yuuta Sakai, Norihiro Tada, Masahito Ochiai, Satoko Hayashi, Waro Nakanishi,* Masanobu Uchiyama,*
J. Org. Chem., 2016, 81, 3188-3198.

Fused-Fluoran Leuco Dyes with Large Color-Change Derived from Two-Step Equilibrium: iso-Aminobenzopyranoxanthenes
Yoshinao Shirasaki, Yuta Okamoto, Atsuya Muranaka,* Shinichiro Kamino, Daisuke Sawada, Daisuke Hashizume, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Org. Chem., 2016, 81, 12046-12051.

Cross-Coupling of Organolithium with Ethers or Aryl Ammonium Salts by C–O or C–N Bond Cleavage
Ze-Kun Yang, Dong-Yu Wang, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Hiroki Minami, Takashi Ozaki, Tatsuo Saito, Kazunori Miyamoto, Chao Wang* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Eur. J., 2016, 22, 15693-15699.
[Selected as Hot Paper]

Improvement in Aqueous Solubility of Retinoic Acid Receptor (RAR) Agonists by Bending the Molecular Structure
Michiaki Hiramatsu, Yuki Ichikawa, Shusuke Tomoshige, Makoto Makishima, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Takao Yamaguchi, Yuichi Hashimoto, Minoru Ishikawa*
Chem. Asian J., 2016, 11, 2210-2217.
[Selected as Cover Picture ]

General Synthesis, Structure, and Optical Properties of Benzothiophene-Fused Benzoheteroles Consisting of Group 15 and 16 Elements
Mio Matsumura, Atsuya Muranaka,* Rina Kurihara, Misae Kanai, Kengo Yoshida, Naoki Kakusawa, Daisuke Hashizume, Masanobu Uchiyama and Shuji Yasuike*
Tetrahedron, 2016,72, 8085-8090.

Rhodium-catalyzed (Perfluoroalkyl)olefination of Acetanilides Leading to Perfluoroalkylated Aromatics
Kohei Harada, Noriyuki Tezuka, Keiichi Hirano,* Kazunori Miyamoto, Tatsuo Saito, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Pharm. Bull., 2016, 64, 1442-1444.

Gold-Catalyzed Annulation of Alkyne Alcohols: Regioselective Construction of Functionalized 6,6- and 6,7-Bicyclic Ethers
Mio Kubota, Tatsuo, Saito,* Kazunori Miyamoto, Keiichi Hirano, Chao Wang, Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Pharm. Bull., 2016, 64, 845-855.
[Prof. S. Omura's Special Issue]

Microcrystallization of a solution-processable organic semiconductor in capillaries for high performance ambipolar field-effect transistors
Satoshi Watanabe,* Takuma Fujita, Jean Charles Ribierre, Kazuto Takaishi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Chihaya Adachi, Tsuyoshi Muto, Tetsuya Aoyama, Mutsuyoshi Matsumoto
ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces, 2016, 17,17574-17582.

Allylic Borylation of Tertiary Allylic Alcohols: A Divergent and Straightforward Access to Allylic Boronates
Kohei Harada, Marina Nogami, Keiichi Hirano,* Daisuke Kurauchi, Hisano Kato, Kazunori Miyamoto,Tatsuo Saito, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2016, 3, 565-569.
[Special Issue in Emerging Investigator Collection]

Enhanced Organic Solar Cells Efficiency through Electronic and Eectro-optic Efects Resulting from Charge Transfers in Polymer Hole Transport Blends
Calvyn T. Howells, Khalid Marbou, Haeri Kim, Kwang Jin Lee, Beno?t Heinrich, Sang Jun Kim, Aiko Nakao, Tetsua Aoyama, Seiichi Furukawa, Ju-Hyung Kim, Eunsun Kim, Fabrice Mathevet, Stephane Mery, Ifor D. W. Samuel, Amal Al Ghaferi, Marcus S. Dahlem,aMasanobu Uchiyama,
Sang Youl Kim, Jeong Weon Wu, Jean-Charles Ribierre, Chihaya Adachi, Dong-Wook Kim and Pascal Andre*
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4, 4252-4263.

BOOK & REVIEW

"Cation-Stitching Cascade": exquisite control of terpene cyclization in cyclooctatin biosynthesis
Hajime Sato, Kazuya Teramoto, Yui Masumoto, Noriyuki Tezuka, Kenta Sakai, Shota Ueda, Yusuke Totsuka, Tetsuro Shinada, Makoto Nishiyama, Chao Wang, Tomohisa Kuzuyama,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Sci. Rep., 2015, 5, 18471.

Conjugation between sigma- and pi-Aromaticity in 1-C-Arylated Monocarba-closo-dodecaborate Anions
Mai Otsuka, Ryo Takita,* Junichiro Kanazawa, Kazunori Miyamoto, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 15082-15085.

Stannyl-Lithium: A Facile and Efficient Synthesis Facilitating Further Applications
Dong-Yu Wang, Chao Wang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 10488–10491.
Highlighted in Chem-Station [Link]

Reversible Near-Infrared/Blue Mechanofluorochromism of Aminobenzopyranoxanthene
Masaru Tanioka, Shinichiro Kamino,* Atsuya Muranaka,* Yousuke Ooyama, Hiromi Ota, Yoshinao Shirasaki, Jun Horigome, Masashi Ueda, Masanobu Uchiyama, Daisuke Sawada, and Shuichi Enomoto*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 6436-6439.
[Highlighted in ACS Noteworthy Chemistry]
Highlighted in RIKEN Research Highlights [Link]

Aryne Polymerization Enabling Straightforward Synthesis of Elusive Poly(ortho-arylene)s
Yoshihide Mizukoshi, Koichiro Mikami* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 74-77.
[Highlighted in C&EN and TCI News]

In-plane Aromaticity in Cycloparaphenylene Dications: A Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Theoretical Study
Naoyuki Toriumi, Atsuya Muranaka,* Eiichi Kayahara, Shigeru Yamago,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 82-85.
Highlighted in RIKEN Research Highlights [Link]

Organoaluminum-Mediated Direct Cross-Coupling Reaction
Hiroki Minami, Tatsuo Saito, Chao Wang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 4665-4668.
[Selected as VIP paper][Highlighted in Wiley-JAPAN Science Cafe]

How and Why Does Ni(0) Promote Smooth Etheric C–O Bond Cleavage and C–C Bond Formation? A Theoretical Study
Hiroyuki Ogawa, Hiroki Minami, Takashi Ozaki, Shinsuke Komagawa, Chao Wang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 13904–13908.

Perfluoroalkyl and -aryl Zinc Ate Complexes: Generation, Reactivity, and Synthetic Application
Xuan Wang, Keiichi Hirano,* Daisuke Kurauchi, Hisano Kato, Naoyuki Toriumi, Ryo Takita, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 10993–10996.
[Selected as Hot Paper]

Dialkylzinc-mediated Cross-coupling Reaction of Perfluoroalkyl/- aryl Halides with Aryl Halides
Hisano Kato, Keiichi Hirano,* Daisuke Kurauchi, Naoyuki Toriumi, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 3895-3890.
[Selected as Hot Paper] [Highlighted in TCI News]

Highly Chemoselective and Versatile Method for Direct Conversion of Carboxylic Acids to Ketones Utilizing Zinc Ate Complexes
Ryo Murata, Keiichi Hirano,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Asian J., 2015, 10, 1286–1290.
Highlighted in Org. Chem. Highlights [Link]

Unexpected Metal-Free Transformation of gem-Dibromomethylene to Ketone under Acetylation Conditions
Rino Kimura, Yusuke Sawayama, Atsuo Nakazaki, Kazunori Miyamoto, Masanobu Uchiyama, Toshio Nishikawa*
Chem. Asian J., 2015,10, 1035-1041.

Why p-Cymene? Conformational Effect in Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Aromatic Ketones with a η6-Arene/Ruthenium(II) Catalyst
Aki Matsuoka, Christian A. Sandoval, Masanobu Uchiyama, Ryoji Noyori, and Hiroshi Naka*
Chem. Asian J., 2015, 10, 112-115.

Stereoselective Synthesis and Reaction of Gold(I) (Z)-Enethiolate
Kazunori Miyamoto,* Masaya Hirobe, Masanobu Uchiyama,and Masahito Ochiai
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 7962-7965.

Ambipolar organic field-effect transistors based on solution-processed single crystal microwires of a quinoidal oligothiophene derivative
Jean-Charles Ribierre,* Li Zhao, Seiichi Furukawa, Kikitsu Tomoka, Daishi Inoue, Atsuya Muranaka, Kazuto Takaishi, Tsuyoshi Muto, Shinya Matsumoto, Daisuke Hashizume, Masanobu Uchiyama, Pascal Andre, Chihaya Adachi,* and Tetsuya Aoyama*
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 5836-5839.

Conformational and Optical Characteristics of Unidirectionally Twisted Binaphthyl-Bipyridyl Cyclic Dyads
Kazuto Takaishi,* Jun Suzuki, Tatsuya Yabe, Hikaru Asano, Michihiro Nishikawa, Daisuke Hashizume, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Akihiro Yokoyama*
Org. Lett., 2015, 17, 4098-4101.

Control of a Chiral Property of a Calix[3]aramide: The Racemization Suppressed by Intramolecular Cyclic Hydrogen Bonds and DMSO−H2O System-Induced Spontaneous Resolution
Kosuke Katagiri,* Shinsuke Komagawa, Masanobu Uchiyama, Kentaro Yamaguchi, and Isao Azumaya*
Org. Lett., 2015, 17, 3650-3653.

Direct Construction of Fused Indoles by Gold-Catalyzed Cascade Cyclization of Conjugated Diynes
Saori Naoe, Tatsuo Saito, Masanobu Uchiyama,* Shinya Oishi, Nobutaka Fujii, and Hiroaki Ohno*
Org. Lett., 2015, 17, 1774–1777.

Analysis of Chemical Equilibrium of Si-substituted Fluorescein and its Application to Red Fluorescent Probes
Kazuhisa Hirabayashi, Kenjiro Hanaoka,* Yuko Toki, Takahiro Egawa, Toshio Takayanagi, Chiaki Kobayashi, Shodai Takahashi, Mako Kamiya, Toru Komatsu, Tasuku Ueno, Takuya Terai, Kengo Yoshida, Masanobu Uchiyama, Yuji Ikegaya, Tetsuo Nagano, Yasuteru Urano*
Anal. Chem., 2015, 87, 9061–9069.

A DFT Study on the Mechanism of Nitrogen-Directed Intramolecular Aromatic Borylation:
C–H Bond Activation or Friedel-Crafts Reaction?
Dong-Yu Wang, Hiroki Minami, Chao Wang,* and Masanobu Uchiyama,*
Chem. Lett., 2015, 44, 1380-1382.

Dialkylzinc-Mediated Allylic Polyfluoroarylation Reaction
Daisuke Kurauchi, Keiichi Hirano,* Hisano Kato, Tatsuo Saito, Kazunori Miyamoto and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Tetrahedron, 2015, 71, 5849-5857 (Prof. Barry M. Trost's Special Issue).

Pd-catalyzed Cross-coupling Reaction of Lithiated Monocarba-closo-dodecaborate at the Carbon Vertex
Yu Kitazawa, Mai Otsuka, Junichiro Kanazawa, Ryo Takita,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Synlett, 2015, 26, 2403-2407 (Prof. Manfred Schlosser's Memorial Issue).

Silane-Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbene–Cobalt Complexes Containing a Five-Coordinate Silicon with a Covalent Co–Si Bond
Jian Sun, Chong Ou, Chao Wang,* Masanobu Uchiyama, and Liang Deng*
Organometallics, 2015, 34, 1546-1551.

Synthesis and Structure of novel DinaphthoI[2,3-b;2',3'-d]- Tellurophene
Mio Matsumura, Atsuya Muranaka, Naoki Kakusawa, Jyoji Kurita, Daisuke Hashizume, Masanobu Uchiyama* and Shuji Yasuike*
HETEROCYCLES, 2015, 90, 121-125. (Prof. Isao Kuwajima's Special Issue)

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Trans-Diborylation of Alkynes: Pseudo-Intramolecular Strategy Utilizing Propargylic Alcohol Unit
Yuki Nagashima, Keiichi Hirano,* Ryo Takita, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 8532-8535.
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18π Tautomeric Benziphthalocyanine: A Functional Near-IR Dye with Tunable Aromaticity
Naoyuki Toriumi, Atsuya Muranaka,* Keiichi Hirano, Kengo Yoshida, Daisuke Hashizume, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 7814-7818.

A two-coordinate boron cation featuring C–B(+)–C bonding
Yoshiaki Shoji,* Naoki Tanaka, Koichiro Mikami, Masanobu Uchiyama and Takanori Fukushima
Nature Chem., 2014, 6, 498-503.
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Non-volatile Organic Memory with Sub-millimetre Bending Radius
Richard Hahnkee Kim,* Hae Jin Kim,* Insung Bae, Sun Kak Hwang, Dhinesh Babu Velusamy, Suk Man Cho, Kazuto Takaishi, Tsuyoshi Muto, Daisuke Hashizume, Masanobu Uchiyama, Pascal Andre, Fabrice Mathevet, Benoit Heinrich, Tetsuya Aoyama, Dae-Eun Kim, Hyungsuk Lee, Jean-Charles Ribierre, Cheolmin Park
Nature Commun., 2014, 5, 3583.

Unraveling the Electronic Structure of Azolehemiporphyrazines: Direct Spectroscopic Observation of Magnetic Dipole Allowed Nature of the Lowest π-π* Transition of 20π-Electron Porphyrinoids
Atsuya Muranaka,* Shino Ohira, Naoyuki Toriumi, Machiko Hirayama, Fumiko Kyotani, Yukie Mori, Daisuke Hashizume, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Phys. Chem. A, 2014, 118, 4415-4424.

Structural Effects in Lithiocuprate Chemistry: the Elucidation of Reactive Pentametallic Complexes
Philip J. Harford, Andrew J. Peel, Joseph P. Taylor, Shinsuke Komagawa, Paul R. Raithby, Thomas P. Robinson, Masanobu Uchiyama,* and Andrew E. H. Wheatley*
Chem. Eur. J., 2014, 20, 3908-3912.

Synthesis and Properties of Palladium(II) Complexes of Aromatic Hemiporphyrazines
Atsuya Muranaka,* Fumiko Kyotania, Xingmei Ouyanga, Daisuke Hashizumeb and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2014, 18, 869-874. (Special Issues Dedicated to Prof. Nagao Kobayashi)

Helical π-Systems of Bidipyrrin-Metal Complexes
Hiromitsu Maeda,* Takuma Nishimura, Akira Tsujii, Kazuto Takaishi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Atsuya Muranaka,
Chem. Lett., 2014, 43, 1078-1080.

Binaphthyl-based Chiral Macrocyclophanes with Variously Sized Cavities: Dn-Symmetrical Structure Constructed from Unidirectionally-Inclined Rod Segments
Kazuto Takaishi,* Tatsuya Yabe, Masanobu Uchiyama and Akihiro Yokoyama*
Tetrahedron, 2014, 70, 730-734.

Diastereoselective Deprotonative Metalation of Chiral Ferrocene Derived Acetals and Esters Using Mixed Lithium-Cadmium and Lithium-Zinc Combinations
Gandrath Dayaker, Aare Sreeshailam, D. Venkata Ramana, Floris Chevallier,
Thierry Roisnel, Shinsuke Komagawa, Ryo Takita, Masanobu Uchiyama,*,
Palakodety Radha Krishn,* Florence Mongin,*
Tetrahedron, 2014, 70, 2102-2117.

Thin Reduced Graphene Oxide Interlayer with a Conjugated Block Copolymer for High Performance Non-volatile Ferroelectric Polymer Memory
Dhinesh Babu Velusamy, Richard Hahnkee Kim, Kazuto Takaishi, Tsuyoshi Muto, Daisuke Hashizume, Soyoon Lee, Masanobu Uchiyama, Tetsuya Aoyama, Jean-Charles Ribierre, Cheolmin Park*
Org. Electron., 2014, 15, 2719–2727.

Influence of the Grain Orientation on the Charge Transport Properties of Organic Field-Effect Transistors
J. C. Ribierre,* Y. Yokota, M. Sato, A. Ishizuka, T. Tanaka, S. Watanabe, M. Matsumoto, A. Muranaka, S. Matsumoto,* M. Uchiyama and T. Aoyama*
RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 36729-36737.

Photophysical, Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Charge Transport Properties of Oligofluorene Derivatives in Thin Films
E.Y. Choi, L. Mazur, L. Mager, M. Gwon, D. Pitrat, J.C. Mulatier, C. Monnereau, A. Fort, A.J. Attias, K. Dorkenoo, J. E. Kwon, Y. Xiao, K. Matczyszyn, M. Samoc, D.-W. Kim, A. Nakao, B. Heinrich, D. Hashizume, M. Uchiyama, S. Y. Park, F. Mathevet, T. Aoyama, C. Andraud, J.W. Wu, A. Barsella, J. C. Ribierre*
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 16941-16956.

Titanium-induced Charge of Si(001) Surface Dependent on Local Configuration
K. Shudo,* T. Aoki, S. Ohno, K. Yamazaki, F. Nakayama, M. Tanaka, T. Okuda, A. Harasawa, I. Matsudab, T. Kakizaki, M. Uchiyama,
J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 2014, 192, 35-39.

In Situ KPFM Imaging of Local Photovoltaic Characteristics on Structured Organic Photovoltaic Devices
Satoshi Watanabe,* Yasumasa Fukuchi, Masako Fukasawa, Takafumi Sassa, Atsushi
Kimoto, Yusuke Tajima, Masanobu Uchiyama, Takashi Yamashita, Mutsuyoshi Matsumoto,
Tetsuya Aoyama,*
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2014, 6, 1481–1487.

Molecular Motion Induced by Multivibronic Excitation on Semiconductor Surface
Tatsuya Momose, Ken-ichi Shudo,* Hannes Raebiger, Shin-ya Ohno, Takeshi Kitajima, Masanobu Uchiyama, Takanori Suzuki, and Masatoshi Tanaka
J. Phys. Chem. C, 2014, 117, 1554–1559.

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Design, Generation, and Synthetic Application of Borylzincate: Borylation of Aryl Halides and Borylzincation of Benzynes/Terminal Alkyne
Yuki Nagashima, Ryo Takita,* Kengo Yoshida, Keiichi Hirano and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 18730-18733.

Mechanistic Origin of Chemo- and Regioselectivity of Nickel-Catalyzed [3+2+2] Cyclization Reaction
Shinsuke Komagawa,* Chao Wang, Keiji Morokuma, Shinichi Saito, and Masanobu Uchiyama*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 14508–14511.

Ion-Based Materials Derived from Positively and Negatively Charged Chloride Complexes of pi-Conjugated Molecules
Bin Dong, Tsuneaki Sakurai, Yuya Bando, Shu Seki,* Kazuto Takaishi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Atsuya Muranaka, and Hiromitsu Maeda*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 14797–14805.

Development of a New Class of Azo-based Fluorescence Probes to Detect Different Levels of Hypoxia
Wen Piao, Satoru Tsuda, Yuji Tanaka, Satoshi Maeda, Fengyi Liu, Shodai Takahashi, Yu Kushida, Toru Komatsu, Tasuku Ueno, Takuya Terai, Toru Nakazawa, Masanobu Uchiyama, Keiji Morokuma, Tetsuo Nagano, Kenjiro Hanaoka*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 13028-13032.

Copper-mediated C–C Cross-Coupling Reaction of Monocarba-closo-dodecaborate Anion for Construction of Functional Molecules
Junichiro Kanazawa, Ryo Takita,* Aleksandra Jankowiak, Shinya Fujii, Hiroyuki Kagechika, Daisuke Hashizume, Koichi Shudo, Piotr Kaszynski,* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 8017-8021.
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Chirality Induction by Formation of Assembled Structures Based on Anion- Responsive π-Conjugated Molecules
Hiromitsu Maeda,* Wataru Hane, Yuya Bando, Yoshitaka Terashima, Yohei Haketa, Hiroshi Shibaguchi, Tsuyoshi Kawai, Masanobu Naito, Kazuto Takaishi, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Atsuya Muranaka
Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 19, 16263-16271.

Formation and Geometrical Control of Polygon-Like Metal-Coordination Assemblies
Hiromitsu Maeda,* Ryo Akuta, Yuya Bando, Kazuto Takaishi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Atsuya Muranaka, Norimitsu Tohnai, and Shu Seki*
Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 19, 11676-11685.

Helicity Induction in Three π-conjugated Chromophores by Planar Chirality of Calixamide
Ryohei Yamakado, Koichiro Mikami,* Koji Takagi,* Isao Azumaya,* Shinri Sugimoto, Shin-ichi Matsuoka, Masato Suzuki, Kosuke Katagiri, Masanobu Uchiyama, Atsuya Muranaka
Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 19, 11853-11857.

Formation of Cyclic and Polymeric Structures from Zwitterions
Harunobu Komatsu, Wataru Oi, Kazumasa Naritani, Kazuto Takaishi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Atsuya Muranaka, and Hiromitsu Maeda*
Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 19, 6956-6960.

Modified McFadyen-Stevens Reaction for a Versatile Synthesis of Aliphatic/Aromatic Aldehydes: Design, Optimization, and Mechanistic Investigations
Yuri Iwai, Takashi Ozaki, Ryo Takita, Masanobu Uchiyama, Jun Shimokawa and Tohru Fukuyama*
Chemical Science, 2013, 4, 1111-1119.

Two Double Helical Modes of Bidipyrrin­–Zn(II) Complexes
Hiromitsu Maeda,* Takuma Nishimura, Ryo Akuta, Kazuto Takaishi, Masanobu Uchiyama, and Atsuya Muranaka*
Chemical Science, 2013, 4, 1204-1211.

Chiroptical Control in Helical Receptor–Anion Complexes
Hiromitsu Maeda,* Tomohiro Shirai, Yuya Bando, Kazuto Takaishi, Masanobu Uchiyama, Atsuya Muranaka, Tsuyoshi Kawai and Masanobu Naito
Org. Lett., 2013, 15, 6006-6009.

Electronic Excited States in Strongly Correlated Organic Radical 1,3,5-trithia-2,4,6-triazapentalenyl (TTTA) Adsorbed on Si(001) Surface
K. Shudo* T. Satake, T. Shimatsu, M. Uchiyama, and J. Takeda
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 19213-19220.

A Red-Emissive Aminobenzopyrano-xanthene Dye: Elucidation of Fluorescence Emission Mechanism in Solution and Aggregate State
Shinichiro Kamino,* Atsuya Muranaka, Miho Murakami, Asana Tatsumi, Noriyuki Nagaoka, Yoshinao Shirasaki, Keiko Watanabe, Kengo Yoshida, Jun Horigome, Seiji Komeda, Masanobu Uchiyama, Shuichi Enomoto*
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 2131-2140.[Selected as Hot Article]
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Exciton Diffusion in Near-infrared Absorbing Solution-processed Organic Thin Films
H.-Y. Shin, J. H. Woo, M. J. Gwon, M. Barthelemy, M. Vomir, T. Muto, K. Takaishi, M. Uchiyama, D. Hashizume, T. Aoyama, D.-W. Kim, S. Yoon, J.-Y. Bigot, J. W. Wu and J. C. Ribierre
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 2867-2872.

[closo-1-CB11H11-1-Ph]- as a Structural Element for Ionic Liquid Crystals
Aleksandra Jankowiak, Junichiro Kanazawa, Piotr Kaszynski,* Ryo Takita, Masanobu Uchiyama
J. Organomet. Chem., 2013, 747, 195-200.

Unusual Conformational Preference of an Aromatic Secondary Urea: Solvent-dependent Open-Closed Conformational Switching of N,N'-Bis(porphyrinyl)urea
Mio Matsumura, Aya Tanatani,* Isao Azumaya, Hyuma Masu, Daisuke Hashizume, Hiroyuki Kagechika, Atsuya Muranaka* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Chem. Commun., 2013, 2290-2292.

Synthesis of Porphyrinylamide and Observation of N-Methylation-induced trans-cis Amide Conformational Alteration
Mio Matsumura, Aya Tanatani, Isao Azumaya, Hyuma Masu, Daisuke Hashizume, Hiroyuki Kagechika, Atsuya Muranaka* and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Tetrahedron, 2013,69, 10927-10932.

Direct C-C Bond Construction from Arylzinc Reagent and Aryl Halide Without an External Catalyst
Hiroki Minami, Chao Wang,* Xuan Wang and Masanobu Uchiyama*
Eur. J. Org. Chem, 2013, 35, 7891-7894.

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