2025
An Icosahedral 55-Atom Iron Hydride Cluster Protected by Tri-tert-butylphosphines
Tatsuya Higaki, Kanata Tanaka, Hitoshi Izu, Shunya Oishi, Koki Kawamoto, Mizuki Tada, W. M. C. Sameera, Ryo Takahata, Toshiharu Teranishi, Soichi Kikkawa, Seiji Yamazoe, Takuya Shiga, Masayuki Nihei, Tatsuhisa Kato, Roger E. Cramer, Zihan Zhang, Karsten Meyer, Yasuhiro Ohki*
2024
Synthesis of Cubic [Mo3S4M] (M = Rh, Ir) Clusters for Borylation of C-H Bonds in Aromatic Compounds
Hitoshi Izu, Sayaka Shimoyama, Kazuki Tanifuji, Yasuhiro Ohki*
Silylation of N2 Catalyzed by Cubic [Mo3S4Ni] Clusters Bearing Mo-bound Cyclopentadienyl Ligands
Yuto Matsuoka, Yuta Sakai, Hitoshi Izu, Sayaka Shimoyama, Mayu Fujisawa, Mizuki Tada, Nishshanka M. Lakshan, W. M. C. Sameera, Kazuki Tanifuji,
Yasuhiro Ohki*
2023
Biomimetic Transition Metal Cluster Complexes: Synthetic Studies and Applications in the Reduction of Inert Small Molecules
Yasuhiro Ohki*
Synthesis, Characterizations, and Catalytic Activity of a Cubic [Mo3S4Pd] Cluster Bearing Bulky Cyclopentadienyl Ligands
Hitoshi Izu, Devashish Girish Bhave, Yuto Matsuoka, W. M. C. Sameera*, Kazuki Tanifuji, Yasuhiro Ohki*
Competitive Double Friedel-Crafts 2,5- and 1',2-Diacylation of Monophosphaferrocenes
Kakeru Masaoka, Haruka Taue, Tatsuya Higaki, Yasuhiro Ohki, Masamichi Ogasawara*
Asymmetric Metathesis Dimerization/Kinetic Resolution of Racemic Planar-Chiral Vinylphosphaferrocenes
Kakeru Masaoka, Haruka Taue, Masayuki Wakioka, Yasuhiro Ohki, Masamichi Ogasawara*
Flow-Chemistry-Enabled Synthesis of 5-Diethylboryl-2,3′-bipyridine and Its Self-Assembly Dynamics
Shigeharu Wakabayashi*, Masahiro Takumi, Shintaro Kamio, Masayuki Wakioka, Yasuhiro Ohki, Aiichiro Nagaki*
Activation of Unsaturated Small Molecules by Bio-relevant Multinuclear Metal-sulfur Clusters
Kazuki Tanifuji, Shun Ohta, Yasuhiro Ohki*, Hidetake Seino*
2022
Nitrogen Reduction by the Fe Sites of Synthetic [Mo3S4Fe] Cubes
Yasuhiro Ohki*, Kenichiro Munakata, Yuto Matsuoka, Ryota Hara, Mami Kachi, Keisuke Uchida, Mizuki Tada, Roger E. Cramer, W. M. C. Sameera, Tsutomu Takayama, Yoichi Sakai, Shogo Kuriyama, Yoshiaki Nishibayashi, Kazuki Tanifuji
Diastereo- and Enantioselective Metathesis Dimerization/Kinetic Resolution of Racemic Planar-Chiral Vinylferrocenes
Koji Nishimoto, Haruka Taue, Takehito Ohji, Sayaka Funakoshi, Yasuhiro Ohki, Masamichi Ogasawara*
Incorporation of an Asymmetric Mo-Fe-S Cluster as an Artificial Cofactor into Nitrogenase
Kazuki Tanifuji, Andrew J. Jasniewski, Chi Chung Lee, Joseph B. Solomon, Takayuki Nagasawa, Yasuhiro Ohki, Kazuyuki Tatsumi, Britt Hedman, Keith O. Hodgson, Yilin Hu*, Markus W. Ribbe*
CO Binding onto Heterometals of [Mo3S4M] (M = Fe, Co, Ni) Cubes
Kazuki Tanifuji, Yuta Sakai, Yuto Matsuoka, Mizuki Tada, W. M. C. Sameera and Yasuhiro Ohki*
Control of Supramolecular Organizations by Coordination Bonding in Tetrapyridylporphyrin Thin Films
Kazutaka Tomita, Nobutaka Shioya, Takafumi Shimoaka, Masayuki Wakioka and Takeshi Hasegawa*
Synthesis of Monophosphaferrocenes Revisited
Kakeru Masaoka, Manami Ohkubo, Haruka Taue, Masayuki Wakioka, Yasuhiro Ohki, and Masamichi Ogasawara*
2021
Tracing the Incorporation of the “Ninth Sulfur” into the Nitrogenase Cofactor Precursor with Selenite and Tellurite
Kazuki Tanifuji, Andrew J. Jasniewski, David Villarreal, Martin T. Stiebritz, Chi Chung Lee, Jarett Wilcoxen, Yasuhiro Okhi, Ruchira Chatterjee, Isabel Bogacz, Junko Yano, Jan Kern, Britt Hedman, Keith O. Hodgson, R. David Britt,* Yilin Hu,* and Markus W. Ribbe*
Formation of trans-Poly(thienylenevinylene) Thin Films by Solid-State Thermal Isomerization
Masayuki Wakioka*, Natsumi Yamashita, Hiroki Mori, Richard Murdey, Takafumi Shimoaka, Nobutaka Shioya, Atsushi Wakamiya, Yasushi Nishihara, Takeshi Hasegawa, and Fumiyuki Ozawa
Four-Electron Reduction of Dioxygen on a Metal Surface: Models of Dissociative and Associative Mechanisms in a Homogeneous System
Hajime Kameo, Shigeyoshi Sakaki, Yasuhiro Ohki, Naoki Uehara, Takuya Kosukegawa, Hiroharu Suzuki, Toshiro Takao
Donor–Acceptor Polymers Containing 4,8-Dithienylbenzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene via Highly Selective Direct Arylation Polymerization
Masayuki Wakioka,* Naohiro Torii, Masahiko Saito, Itaru Osaka, and Fumiyuki Ozawa