> Original Papers

45. Boron-doped Nanographene: Lewis Acidity, Redox Properties, and Battery Electrode Performance

Shinichiro Osumi, Shohei Saito, Chuandong Dou, Kyohei Matsuo, Keita Kume, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Kunio Awaga, Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Chem. Sci., Advance Article.

44. Atomically-Controlled Substitutional Boron-Doping of Graphene Nanoribbons

Shigeki Kawai, Shohei Saito, Shinichiro Osumi, Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Adam S. Foster, Peter Spijker, Ernst Meyer

Nat. Commun., in press.

43. Fluorescent Benzene-centered mono-, bis-, and tris-triazapentadiene–boron complexes

Christoph Glotzbach, Nadine Gödeke, Roland Fröhlich, Constantin-Gabriel Daniliuc, Shohei Saito, Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Ernst-Ulrich Würthwein

Dalton Trans. 2015, 44, 9659-9671.

[DOI: 10.1039/C5DT00908A]

42. Highly Bent Crystals Formed by Restrained π-Stacked Columns Connected via Alkylene Linkers with Variable Conformations

Chih-Ming Chou, Shunpei Nobusue, Shohei Saito, Daishi Inoue, Daisuke Hashizume, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Chem. Sci., 6, 2354-2359 (2015).

41. Photodissociation of B–N Lewis Adducts: A Partially Fused Trinaphthylborane with Dual Fluorescence

Kyohei Matsuo, Shohei Saito, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 12580-12583.

40. A Strap Strategy for Construction of an Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) System with Dual Fluorescence

Naoya Suzuki, Aiko Fukazawa, Kazuhiko Nagura, Shohei Saito, Hirotaka Kitoh-Nishioka, Daisuke Yokogawa, Stephan Irle, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 8231-8235.

39. Heterotriangulenes π-Expanded at Bridging Positions

Chih-Ming Chou, Shohei Saito, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Org. Lett, 2014, 16, 2868-2871.

[DOI: 10.1021/ol501004g]

38. Hybridization of a Flexible Cyclooctatetraene Core and Rigid Aceneimide Wings for Multi-Luminescent Flapping π Systems

Chunxue Yuan, Shohei Saito, Cristopher Camacho, Tim Kowaiczyk, Stephan Irle, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Chem. Eur. J, 2014, 20, 2193-2200.

Selected as Inside Cover

Highlighted as a Noteworthy Chemistry in ACS Website (April 14, 2014)

Highlighted in SYNFACTS

37. Thermal 8π Electrocyclic Reaction of Heteroarene Tetramers: New Efficient Access to π-Extended Cyclooctatetraenes

Kazuhiro Mouri, Shohei Saito, Ichiro Hisaki, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Chem. Sci., 2013, 4, 4465-4469.

36. Distinct Responses to Mechanical Grinding and Hydrostatic Pressure in Luminescent Chromism of Tetrathiazolylthiophene

Kazuhiko Nagura, Shohei Saito, Hitoshi Yusa, Hiroshi Yamawaki, Hiroshi Fujihisa, Hiroyasu Sato, Yuichi Shimoikeda, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 10322-10325.

35. A Pentacoordinate Boron-Containing π-Electron System with Cl–B–Cl Three-Center Four-Electron Bonds

Chuandong Dou, Shohei Saito, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 9346-9349.

34. A π-Conjugated System with Flexibility and Rigidity that Shows Environment-Dependent RGB Luminescence

Chunxe Yuan, Shohei Saito, Christopher Camacho, Stephan Irle, Ichiro Hisaki, Shigehiro Yamaguchi

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 8842-8845.

Highlighted in C&EN

33. Fluorescent Modular Boron Systems based on NNN- and ONO-Tridentate Ligands: Self-Assembly and Cell Imaging

Christoph Glotzbach, Ulrike Kauscher, Jens Voskuhl, N. Seda Kehr, Marc C. A. Stuart, Roland Fröhlich, Hans J. Galla, Bart Jan Ravoo, Kazuhiko Nagura, Shohei Saito, Shigehiro Yamaguchi, and Ernst-Ulrich Würthwein

J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 4410-4418.

[DOI: 10.1021/jo4003745]

32. S-Pechmann Dye: A Thiolactone-Containing Organic Dye with Pronounced Electron-Accepting Character and Its Solid-State Photophysical Properties

Aiko Fukazawa, Makoto Adachi, Ken Nakakura, Shohei Saito, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 7117-7119.

31. Borylated Dibenzoborepin Synthesized via Skeletal Rearrangement and its Photochromism Based on Bora-Nazarov Cyclization

Azusa Iida, Shohei Saito, Takahiro Sasamori, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 3760-3764.

30. Sequential Electrophilic and Photochemical Cyclizations from Bis(bithienyl)acetylene to a Tetrathienonaphthalene Core

Chuandong Dou, Shohei Saito, Libin Gao, Naoki Matsumoto, Takashi Karasawa, Hongyu Zhang, Aiko Fukazawa, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 80-83.

[DOI: 10.1021/ol303107y]

29. Boron-Containing PAH as a Substructure of Boron-Doped Graphene

Chuandong Dou, Shohei Saito, Kyohei Matsuo, Ichiro Hisaki, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 12206-12210.

Highlighted in Advances in Engineering and Kagaku

28. N-Heterocyclic Carbene Borane as an Electron Donating and Accepting Component of π-Conjugated Systems

Kazuhiko Nagura, Shohei Saito, Roland Fröhlich, Frank Glorius, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 7762-7766.

27. Polycyclic π-Electron System with Boron at Its Center

Shohei Saito, Kyohei Matsuo, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 9130-9133.

Highlighted as JACS Spotlights, SYNFACTS of the month

26. Highly Flexible pi-Extended Cyclooctatetraenes: Cyclic Thiazole Tetramers with Head-to-Tail Connection

Kazuhiro Mouri, Shohei Saito, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 5971-5975.

Highlighted in SYNFACTS

25. Facile Synthesis of Biphenyl-Fused BODIPY and Its Property

Yosuke Hayashi, Naoki Obata, Masatomo Tamaru, Shigeru Yamaguchi, Yutaka Matsuo, Akinori Saeki, Shu Seki, Yuka Kureishi, Shohei Saito, Shigehiro Yamaguchi, and Hiroshi Shinokubo

Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 866-869.

[DOI: 10.1021/ol2033916]

24. Macrocyclic Restriction with Flexible Alkylene Linkers: A Simple Strategy to Control the Solid-Sate Properties of π-Conjugated Systems

Shohei Saito, Ken Nakakura, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 714-717.

Selected as a Hot Paper

23. Solvent- Temperature-Dependent Conformational Changes between Hückel Antiaromatic and Möbius Aromatic Species in meso-Trifluoromethyl-Substituted [28]Hexaphyrins

Min-Chul Yoon, Pyosang Kim, Hyejin Yoo, Soji Shimizu, Taro Koide, Sumito Tokuji, Shohei Saito, Atsuhiro Osuka, and Dongho Kim

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2011, 115, 14928-14937.

[DOI: 10.1021/jp207731k]

22. Solvent Dependent Aromatic versus Antiaromatic Conformational Switching in meso-(Heptakis)pentafluorophenyl [32]Heptaphyrin

M.-C. Yoon, J.-Y. Shin, J. M. Lim, S. Saito, T. Yoneda, A. Osuka, D. Kim

Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 6707-6715.

Selected as a VIP

21. A Möbius Aromatic Pd(II) Complex of [28]Hexaphyrin(2.1.1.0.1.1)

Kohei Moriya, Tomoki Yoneda, Shohei Saito, Atsuhiro Osuka

Chem. Lett. 2011, 40, 455-457.

20. Palladium(II)-Metalation Triggered Rearrangement of Heptaphyrin to N-Confused Porphyrin

Tomoki Yoneda, Shohei Saito, Hideki Yorimitsu, Atsuhiro Osuka

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3475-3478.

[DOI: 10.1002/anie.201100243]

19. Metal Complexes of Chiral Möbius Aromatic [28]Hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1): Enantiomeric Separation, Absolute Stereochemistry, And Asymmetric Synthesis

Takayuki Tanaka, Tsutomu Sugita, Sumito Tokuji, Shohei Saito, Atsuhiro Osuka

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 6619-6621.

18. Möbius Antiaromatic Bis-Phosphorus Complexes of [30]Hexaphyrins

Tomohiro Higashino, Jong Min Lim, Takahiro Miura, Shohei Saito, Jae-Yoon Shin, Dongho Kim, Atsuhiro Osuka

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 4950-4954.

17. Boron(III) Induced Skeletal Rearrangement of Hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1) to Hexaphyrin(2.1.1.0.1.1)

Kohei Moriya, Shohei Saito, Atsuhiro Osuka

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 4297-4300.

16. meso-Trifluoromethyl-Substituted Subporphyrin from Ring-Splitting Reaction of meso-Trifluoromethyl-Substituted [32]Heptaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1.1)

Ryu Sakamoto, Shohei Saito, Soji Shimizu, Yasuhide Inokuma, Naoki Aratani, Atsuhiro Osuka

Chem. Lett., 2010, 39, 439-441.

Selected as an Editor’s Choice

15. Fully pi-Conjugated Helices From Oxidative Cleavage of meso-Aryl Substituted Expanded Porphyrins

Shohei Saito, Ko Furukawa, Atsuhiro Osuka

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 2128-2129.

14. Protonated [4n] and [4n+2] Octaphyrins Choose Their Möbius/Hückel Aromatic Topology

Jong Min Lim, Jae-Yoon Shin, Yasuo Tanaka, Shohei Saito, Atsuhiro Osuka, Dongho Kim

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 3105-3114.

13. Phosphorus Complexes of the First Expanded Isophlorins

Takahiro Miura, Tomohiro Higashino, Shohei Saito, Atsuhiro Osuka

Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 55-59.

Highlighted in Synfacts

12. T-Shaped Three-Coordinate Copper(II) Heptaphyrin Complexes

Shohei Saito, Ko Furukawa, Atsuhiro Osuka

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 8086-8089.

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11. Multiple Conformational Changes of β-Tetraphenyl meso-Hexakis(pentafluorophenyl) Substituted [26] and [28]Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1)

Taro Koide, Katsuyuki Youfu, Shohei Saito, Atsuhiro Osuka

Chem. Commun., 2009, 6047-6049.

10. Triply N-Confused Hexaphyrins: New Near-IR Luminescent Dyes of a Triangular Shape

Yong-Shu Xie, Keisuke Yamaguchi, Motoki Toganoh, Hidemitsu Uno, Masaaki Suzuki, Shigeki Mori, Shohei Saito, Atsuhiro Osuka, Hiroyuki Furuta

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 5496-5499.

9. Facile Formation of a Benzopyran-fused [28]Hexaphyrin that Exhibits Distinct Möbius aromaticity

Sumito Tokuji, Jae-Yoon Shin, Kil Suk Kim, Jong Min Lim, Katsuyuki Youfu, Shohei Saito, Dongho Kim, Atsuhiro Osuka

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 7240-7241.

Highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News

8. Temperature Dependent Conformational Change of meso-Hexakis(pentafluorophenyl) [28]Hexaphyrins (1.1.1.1.1.1) into Möbius Structures

Kil Suk Kim, Zin Seok Yoon, Annie Ricks, Jae-Yoon Shin, Shigeki Mori, Jeyaraman Sankar, Shohei Saito, Young Mee Jung, Michael Wasielewski, Atsuhiro Osuka, Dongho Kim

J. Phys. Chem. A, 2009, 113, 4498-4506.

7. Protonation-Triggered Conformational Changes to Möbius Aromatic [32]Heptaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1.1)

Shohei Saito, Jae-Yoon Shin, Jong Min Lim, Kil Suk Kim, Dongho Kim, Atsuhiro Osuka

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 9657-9660.

6. Unambiguous Identification of Möbius Aromaticity for meso-Aryl-Substituted [28]Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1)

Jeyaraman Sankar, Shigeki Mori, Shohei Saito, Harapriya Rath, Masaaki Suzuki, Yasuhide Inokuma, Hiroshi Shinokubo, Kil Suk Kim, Zin Seok Yoon, Jae-Yoon Shin, Jong Min Lim, Yoichi Matsuzaki, Osamu Matsushita, Atsuya Muranaka, Nagao Kobayashi, Dongho Kim and Atsuhiro Osuka

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 13568-13579.

5. Synthesis and Characterization of meso-Aryl-Substituted Subchlorins

Eiji Tsurumaki, Shohei Saito, Kil Suk Kim, Jong Min Lim, Yasuhide Inokuma, Dongho Kim, Atsuhiro Osuka

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 438-439.

4. Metalation of Expanded Porphyrins: A Chemical Trigger Used To Produce Molecular Twisting and Möbius Aromaticity

Yasuo Tanaka, Shohei Saito, Shigeki Mori, Naoki Aratani, Hiroshi Shinokubo, Naoki Shibata, Yoshiki Higuchi, Zin Seok Yoon, Kil Suk Kim, Su Bum Noh, Jong Kang Park, Dongho Kim, Atsuhiro Osuka

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 681-684.

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3. Extrusion of Boron(III) Subporphyrin from meso-Heptakis(pentafluorophenyl) [32]heptaphyrin upon Cooperative CuII and BIII Metalation

Shohei Saito, Kil Suk Kim, Zin Seok Yoon, Dongho Kim, Atsuhiro Osuka

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 5591-5593.

2. N-Fusion Reaction Sequence of Heptaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1.1): Singly, Doubly, and Quadruply N-Fused Heptaphyrins

Shohei Saito, Atsuhiro Osuka

Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 9095-9102.

1. Internally 1,4-Phenylene-Bridged meso Aryl-Substituted Expanded Porphyrins: The Decaphyrin and Octaphyrin Cases

Venkataramanarao G. Anand, Shohei Saito, Soji Shimizu, Atsuhiro Osuka

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 7244-7248.

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2. Expanded Porphyrins and Aromaticity

Atsuhiro Osuka, Shohei Saito

Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 4330-4339.

[DOI: 10.1039/C1CC10534E]

1. Expanded Porphyrins: Intriguing Structures, Electronic Properties, and Reactivities

Shohei Saito, Atsuhiro Osuka

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 4342.

[DOI: 10.1002/anie.201003909]

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