Phone: +81-52-747-6857
E-mail: sakai.mika.n9f.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Mika Sakai graduated from Nagoya University in 2018, and received her degree of Doctor of Science from the same university in 2024 under the supervision of Professor Shigehiro Yamaguchi. She also completed the course of the “Graduate Program of Transformative Chem-Bio Research (GTR)”, receiving instruction from Professor Takeshi Yanai as a second mentor in 2024. She has been a Designated Assistant Professor at Nagoya University since 2024. She also works with Professor Matthias Wagner at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany as a visiting scholar in the program of “International Leading Research (ILR)”. Her research interests are focused on the development of functional organic materials based on the characteristics of main-group elements, such as boron, sulfur, and phosphorus. She has explored the attractive photophysical properties, molecular assembly and reactivities. She is also interested in the theoretical approach to understand the details of molecular behavior.
Awards
- Branch Chief Award, Tokai Branch, The Chemical Society of Japan (2018)
- Best Poster Award, ITbM-GTR Pre-ISNA Symposium “Toward Advanced Functions from New π-Skeletons” (2019)
- Chemistry Letters Young Award (Poster Award), The 46th Symposium on Main Group Element Chemistry (2019)
Representative publications
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Planarized Phenyldithienylboranes: Effects of the Bridging Moieties and -Extension on the Photophysical Properties and Lewis Acidity
M. Sakai, M. Mori, M. Hirai, N. Ando, S. Yamaguchi
Chem. Eur. J., 28, e202200728 (2022). -
Electron-Deficient Heteroacenes that Contain Two Boron Atoms: Near-Infrared Fluorescence Based on a Push–Pull Effect
M. Ito, M. Sakai, N. Ando, S. Yamaguchi
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 21853-21859 (2021). -
Planarized B,N-Phenylated Dibenzoazaborine with a Carbazole Substructure: Electronic Impact of the Structural Constraint
M. Ando, M. Sakai, N. Ando, M. Hirai, S. Yamaguchi
Org. Biomol. Chem., 17, 5500-5504 (2019).
