Original Paper

25. Rational design of metal–organic cages to increase the number of components via dihedral angle control. T. Abe, K. Takeuchi, M. Higashi, H. Sato, S. Hiraoka* Nat. Commun. 15, 7630 (2024). [DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-50972-z] プレスリリース[Link]

24. Assembly of six types of heteroleptic Pd2L4 cages under kinetic control. T. Abe, N. Sanada, K. Takeuchi, A. Okazawa, S. Hiraoka* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145, 28061–28074 (2023) [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c09359]

23. Pathway bias and emergence of quasi-irreversibility in reversible reaction networks : Extension of Curtin-Hammett principle. S. Takahashi, T. Abe, H. Sato, S. Hiraoka* Chem 9, 2971–2982 (2023). [DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2023.06.015]プレスリリース[Link]

22. Kinetically controlled narcissistic self-sorting of Pd(ii)-linked self-assemblies from structurally similar tritopic ligand. T. Abe, S. Horiuchi, S. Hiraoka* Chem. Commun. 58, 10829–10832 (2022). [DOI: 10.1039/D2CC04496J]

21. Light-Driven Oxidation of CH4 to C1 Chemicals Catalysed by an Organometallic Ru Complex with O2. T. Nakano, T. Abe, T. Matsumoto,* K. Kimura, G. Nakamura, S. Hayami, Y. Shiota,* K. Yoshizawa,* S. Ogo* RSC Adv. 12, 12253–12257 (2022). [DOI: 10.1039/d2ra01772e]

20. Mechanistic study on reduction of nitric oxide to nitrous oxide using a dicopper complex. Y. Kametani, T. Abe, K. Yoshizawa, Y. Shiota* Dalton Trans. 51, 5399–5403 (2022). (Selected as HOT articles) [DOI: 10.1039/D2DT00275B]

19. Using α- and β-Epimerizations of cis-2,3-Bis(hydroxymethyl)-γ-butyrolactone for the Synthesis of both Enantiomers of Enterolactone. R. Jiang, Ismiyarto, T. Abe, D. Zhou, K. Asano, T. Suzuki, H. Sasai, T. Suzuki* J. Org. Chem. 87 (8), 5051–5056 (2022). [DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c02801]

18. Chiral Vanadium(v)-catalyzed Oxidative Coupling of 4-Hydroxycarbazoles. G. T. Kamble, M. S. H. Salem, T. Abe, H. Park, M. Sako, S. Takizawa,* H. Sasai* Chem. Lett. 50, 1755–1757 (2021). [DOI: 10.1246/cl.210367]

17. Preparation of Optically Pure Dinuclear Cobalt(III) Complex with Λ-Configuration as a Dianionic Chiral Catalyst. M. S. H. Salem, A. Kumar, M. Sako, T. Abe, S. Takizawa,* H. Sasai* Heterocycles 103, 225–230 (2021). [DOI: 10.3987/COM-20-S(K)41]

16. Photoswitchable Chiral Phase Transfer Catalyst. M. Kondo,* K. Nakamura, C. G. Krishnan, S. Takizawa, T. Abe, H. Sasai* ACS Catal. 11, 1863–1867 (2021). (Highlighted in Synfacts in Issue 17, 442, 2021) [DOI:10.1021/acscatal.1c00057] 

15. Mechanistic Insights into the Dicopper-Complex-Catalyzed Hydroxylation of Methane and Benzene Using Nitric Oxide: A DFT Study. T. Abe, Y. Kametani, K. Yoshizawa*, Y. Shiota* Inorg. Chem. 60, 4599–4609 (2021). [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03558] 

14. Arylene–hexaynylene and –octaynylene macrocycles: extending the polyyne chains drives self-association by enhanced dispersion force. S. Kato,* R. Kumagai, T. Abe, C. Higuchi, Y. Shiota, K. Yoshizawa, N. Takahashi, K. Yamamoto, M. Hossain, K. Hayashi, T. Hirose, Y. Nakamura* Chem. Commun. 57, 576–579 (2021). (Selected as a Front Cover in Issue 5, 2021) [DOI: 10.1039/D0CC07540J]

13. Theoretical Rationalization for the Equilibrium between (μ–η2:η2-Peroxido)CuIICuII and Bis(μ-oxido)CuIIICuIII Complexes: Perturbational Effects from Ligand Frameworks. T. Abe, Y. Shiota, S. Itoh, K. Yoshizawa* Dalton Trans. 49, 6710–6717 (2020). [DOI: 10.1039/D0DT01001D] 

12. Macroscopic Polarization Change via Electron Transfer in a Valence Tautomeric Cobalt Complex. S. Wu, M. Liu, K. Gao, S. Kanegawa, Y. Horie, G. Aoyama, H. Okajima, A. Sakamoto, M. Baker, M. Huzan, P. Bencok, T. Abe, Y. Shiota, K. Yoshizawa, W. Xu, H. Kou, O. Sato* Nat. Commun. 11, 1992 (2020). [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15988-1] 

11. Chemical Transformations of Push–Pull Fluorenones: Push–Pull Dibenzodicyanofulvenes as well as Fluorenone– and Dibenzodicyanofulvene–Tetracyanobutadiene Conjugates. S. Kato,* T. Kijima, Y. Shiota, T. Abe, S. Kuwako, H. Miyauchi, N. Yoshikawa, K. Yamamoto, K. Yoshizawa, T. Yoshihara, S. Tobita, Y. Nakamura* Org. Biomol. Chem. 18, 4198–4209 (2020).(Selected as a Front Cover in Issue 22, 2020) [DOI: 10.1039/C9OB02706H] 

10. Mechanistic Study on Ring-Contracting Skeletal Rearrangement from Porphycene to Isocorrole by Experimental and Theoretical Methods. T. Koide, T. Maeda, T. Abe, Y. Shiota, Y. Yano, T. Ono, K. Yoshizawa, Y. Hisaeda* Eur. J. Org. Chem. 12, 1811–1816 (2020). (Selected as a  Cover Feature in Issue 12, 2020) [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201901659] 

9. Visible light-driven cross-coupling reactions of alkyl halides with phenylacetylene derivatives for C(sp3)-C(sp) bond formation catalyzed by B12 complex. L. Chen, Y. Kametani, K. Imamura, T. Abe, Y. Shiota, K. Yoshizawa, Y. Hisaeda,* H. Shimakoshi* Chem. Commun. 55, 13070–13073 (2019). (Selected as a Back Cover in Issue 87, 2019) [DOI: 10.1039/C9CC06185A]

8. Role of Amino-Acid Residues for Dioxygen Activation in the Second Coordination Sphere of the Dicopper Site of pMMO. M. Miyanishi, T. Abe, Y. Hori, Y. Shiota, K. Yoshizawa* Inorg. Chem. 58, 12280–12288 (2019). [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01752] 

7. Mechanistic Insights into Methane Oxidation by Molecular Oxygen under Photoirradiation: Controlled Radical Chain Reactions. Y. Hori, T. Abe, Y. Shiota, K. Yoshizawa* Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 92, 1840–1846 (2019). [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20190171] 

6. Cupric-superoxide Complex That Induces a Catalytic Aldol Reaction-type C–C Bond Formation. T. Abe, Y. Hori, Y. Shiota, T. Ohta, Y. Morimoto, H. Sugimoto, T. Ogura, K. Yoshizawa,* S. Itoh* Commun. Chem. 2, 12 (2019). [DOI: 10.1038/s42004-019-0115-6] 

5. 2-(2-Pyridyl)ethylamine (Pye) Ligands in Copper(I)-dioxygen Chemistry. S. Itoh,* T. Abe, Y. Morimoto, H. Sugimoto Inorg. Chim. Acta, 481, 38–46 (2017). [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2017.09.017] 

4. Geometric Effects on O–O Bond Scission of Copper(II)-alkylperoxide Complexes. T. Abe, Y. Morimoto, K. Mieda, H. Sugimoto, N. Fujieda, T. Ogura, S. Itoh* J. Inorg. Biochem. 177, 375–383 (2017). [DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2017.08.016] 

3. Tetrahedral Copper(II) Complexes with a Labile Coordination Site Supported by a Tris-tetramethylguanidinato Ligand. I. Shimizu, Y. Morimoto, D. Faltermeier, M. Kerscher, S. Paria, T. Abe, H. Sugimoto, N. Fujieda, K. Asano, T. Suzuki, P. Comba,* S. Itoh* Inorg. Chem. 56, 9634–9645 (2017). [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01154] 

2. Copper-catalyzed Selective Oxygenation of Methyl and Benzyl Substituents in Pyridine with O2. T. Abe, S. Tanaka, A. Ogawa, M. Tamura, K. Sato,* S. Itoh* Chem. Lett. 46, 348–350 (2017). [DOI: 10.1246/cl.161074] 

1. Geometric Control of Nuclearity in Copper(I)/Dioxygen Chemistry. T. Abe, Y. Morimoto, T. Tano, K. Mieda, H. Sugimoto, N. Fujieda, T. Ogura, S. Itoh* Inorg. Chem. 53, 8786–8794 (2014). [DOI: 10.1021/ic501461n] 

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第8章 メタンの直接酸化機構と触媒開発のための計算化学的アプローチ 阿部　司, 塩田淑仁, 吉澤一成

1. Theoretical Approach to Homogeneous Catalyst of Methane Hydroxylation: Collaboration with Computation and Experiment.Y. Hori, T. Abe Direct Hydroxylation of Methane: Interplay Between Theory and Experiment K. Yoshizawa Ed. Springer, 151–165 (2020). [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-6986-9]