Masato Hirai

Ph.D.

> Curriculum Vitae

May 2010　　Texas A&M University at College Station,

　　　　　　　 B.Sc. in Chemistry (Magna Cumma Laude)

Mar 2016　　Texas A&M University at College Station,

　　　　　　　 Ph.D. in Chemistry

Aug 2016　　Texas A&M University at College Station,

　　　　　　　 Ph.D. in Chemistry (Advisor: Prof. François P. Gabbaï)

Jul 2016- Mar 2017  Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Center for Materials Science (RCMS),　

　　　　　　　 Nagoya University, Japan

Apr 2017- 　 Postdoctoral Fellow, JSPS at Nagoya University

> Awards

2009年　ACS Chemistry Award in Inorganic Chemistry

2010年　The Connie G. and Otto F. (Pete) Schumm Endowed Scholarship in Chemistry

2010年　Hypercube Scholar Award

2014年　Phi Lambda Upsilon Scholarship Award

2015年　First place in Student Research Week at Texas A&M University

2015年　Dow Symposium poster award

2016年　Sharon Dabney Award (Excellence in academic and service)

> List of Publications

5. Steric Shielding vs Structural Constraint in a Boron-Containing Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon

Valentin M. Hertz, Naoki Ando, Masato Hirai, Michael Bolte, Hans-Wolfram Lerner, Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Matthias Wagner

Organometallics, ASAP.

[DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00800]

4. 1-Pyrenyl- and 3-perylenyl-antimony(V) derivatives for the fluorescence turn-on sensing of fluoride ions in water at sub-ppm concentrations

Masato Hirai, Mykhaylo Myahkostupov, Felix N. Castellano, François P. Gabbaï

Organometallics, 35, 1854-1860 (2016).

[DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00233]

3. Promoting the Hydrosilylation of Benzaldehyde by Using a Dicationic Antimony‐Based Lewis Acid: Evidence for the Double Electrophilic Activation of the Carbonyl Substrate

Masato Hirai, Junsang Cho, François P. Gabbaï

Chem. Eur. J., 22, 6537-6541 (2016).

[DOI: 10.1002/chem.201600971]

2. Squeezing Fluoride out of Water with a Neutral Bidentate Antimony(V) Lewis Acid

Masato Hirai, François P. Gabbaï

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 1205-1209 (2015).

[DOI: 10.1002/anie.201410085]

1. Lewis acidic stiborafluorenes for the fluorescence turn-on sensing of fluoride in drinking water at ppm concentration

Masato Hirai, François P. Gabbaï

Chem. Sci., 5, 1886-1893 (2014).

[DOI: 10.1039/C4SC00343H]