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(Research results contributed by CIF)
49 (We thank the Chemical Instrumentation Facility of the Research Center for Materials Science,
      Nagoya University, for allowing us to conduct the analyses.)
"Internal cap-initiated translation for efficient protein production from circular mRNA"
Kosuke Fukuchi, Yuko Nakashima, Naoko Abe, Seigo Kimura,Fumitaka Hashiya,
Yuichi Shichino, Yiwei Liu, Ryoko Ogisu,Satomi Sugiyama, Daisuke Kawaguchi, Masahito Inagaki, Zheyu Meng,
Shiryu Kajihara, Mizuki Tada, Satoshi Uchida, Ting-Ting Li,Ramkrishna Maity, Tairin Kawasaki,
Yasuaki Kimura,Shintaro Iwasaki, Hiroshi Abe
Nature Biotechnology. 2025
doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02561-86.
48 (We extend our gratitude to Dr. K. Oyama (Nagoya University) for the elemental analyses.)
"Arraying and Guest Inclusion of Soluble Metal-Organic Nanotubes
Composed of Macrocyclic Paddle-Wheel Metal Complexes"
Shin-ichiro Kawano, Ako Sasaki, and Kentaro Tanaka*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202422546
doi.org/10.1002/anie.202422546.
47 (The authors would like to thank to K.Oyama (Chemical Instrumentation Facility (CIF) of NU)
      for their technical support.)
"Database Construction for the Virtual Screening of the Ruthenium-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Ketones"
Haruno Nakajima, Chihaya Murata, Naoki Noto,* Susumu Saito*
J. Org. Chem. 2025, 90, 1054−1060.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.4c02347
46 (We are also grateful to K. Oyama and R. Yamada for their technical support in spectroscopic measurements.)
"Selective electroreduction of CO2 to formate by a heterogenized Ir complex using H2O as an
electron/hydrogen source"
Jieun Jung,* Keun Woo Lee, Naonari Sakamoto, Selvam Kaliyamoorthy, Taku Wakabayashi,
Kenji Kamada, Keita Sekizawa, Shunsuke Sato, Tomiko M. Suzuki, Takeshi Morikawa, Susumu Saito *
EES. Catal. Advance Article, (2024)
DOI: 10.1039/d4ey00261j.
45 (We are also grateful to K. Oyama and R.Yamada for their technical support in spectroscopic measurements.)
"Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Using an Osmium Complex as a Panchromatic Self-Photosensitized
Catalyst: Utilization of Blue,Green, and Red Light"
Kenji Kamada, Jieun Jung,* Chihiro Yamada, Taku Wakabayashi, Keita Sekizawa,
Shunsuke Sato, Takeshi Morikawa, Shunichi Fukuzumi, and Susumu Saito*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, e202403886
doi.org/10.1002/anie.202403886.
44 (The authors are grateful to Dr. Kin-ichi Oyama (Nagoya University) for the mass spectroscopic analysis.)
"Kinetic Control over Social and Narcissistic Self-Sorting from Multicomponent Mixtures in
Seed-Initiated Supramolecular Polymerization by Fine-Tuning of Steric Effects"
Kentaro Matsumoto, Nils Bäumer, Soichiro Ogi,* and Shigehiro Yamaguchi*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, e202416361
doi.org/10.1002/anie.202416361.
43 (The authors would like to thank K. Oyama and R. Yamada for their technical support.)
"(PNCP)Ir vs (PNNP)Ir: Neutral Iridium Complex for Direct Hydrogenation of Carboxylic Acids"
Koichiro Nishimoto, Naoki Noto, Yohei Kametani, Bendik Gro̷mer, Chihaya Murata, Hiroko Okuwa,
Yoshihito Shiota, Kazunari Yoshizawa, and Susumu Saito*
Organometallics 2024, 43, 3013−3021.
doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.4c00355.
42 (We thank the Chemical Instrumentation Facility of the Research Center for
      Materials Science at Nagoya University for allowing us to conduct this analysis.)
"Development of PCR primers enabling the design of flexible sticky ends for efficient concatenation
of long DNA fragments"
Kohei Nomura, Kaoru Onda, Hirotaka Murase, Fumitaka Hashiya, Yukiteru Ono,
Goro Terai, Natsuhisa Oka, Kiyoshi Asai, Daisuke Suzuki, Naho Takahashi,
Haruka Hiraoka, Masahito Inagaki, Yasuaki Kimura, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Naoko Abe and Hiroshi Abe*
RSC Chem. Biol., 2024, 5, 360–371.
DOI: 10.1039/d3cb00212h.
41 (The authors are grateful to Dr. Kin-ichi Oyama (Nagoya University) for the mass spectroscopic anaysis.)
"Biomimetic Design of a Robustly Stabilized Folded State Enabling"
Seed-Initiated Supramolecular Polymerization under Microfluidic Mixing
Soichiro Ogi,* Aiko Takamatsu, Kentaro Matsumoto, Shintaro Hasegawa, Shigehiro Yamaguchi*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202306428.
doi.org/10.1002/anie.202306428.
40 (Mass measurements were conducted using resources from the Chemical Instrumentation Facility (CIF),
      Research Center for Materials Science (RCMS), Nagoya University.)
"Adamantane Annulation to Arenes: A Strategy for Property Modulation of Aromatic π‑Systems"
Takaku Yoshihara, Hiroki Shudo, Akiko Yagi,* and Kenichiro Itami,*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 11754−11763.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c02788.
39 (We thank Dr. Kin-ichi OYAMA for mass spectrometry analysis of the synthesized OFMs.)
"Molecules with a TEMPO-based head group as highperformance organic friction modifiers"
Jinchi HOU, Masaki TSUKAMOTO, Seanghai HOR, Xingyu CHEN, Juntao YANG, Hedong ZHANG,*,
Nobuaki KOGA, Koji YASUDA, Kenji FUKUZAWA, Shintaro ITOH, Naoki AZUMA
Friction, 2023, 11, 316–332.
doi.org/10.1007/s40544-022-0610-0
38 (We are grateful for the support of the Chemical Instrumentation Facility.)
"Cap analogs with a hydrophobic photocleavable tag enable facile purification of fully
capped mRNA with various cap structures "
Masahito Inagaki, Naoko Abe, Zhenmin Li, Yuko Nakashima, Susit Acharyya,
Kazuya Ogawa, Daisuke Kawaguchi, Haruka Hiraoka ,Ayaka Banno, Zheyu Meng, Mizuki Tada, Tatsuma Ishida,
Pingxue Lyu, Kengo Kokubo, Hirotaka Murase, Fumitaka Hashiya, Yasuaki Kimura, Satoshi Uchida, Hiroshi Abe*
Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 2657.
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38244-8.
37 (We thank the Chemical Instrumentation Facility.)
"Complete Chemical Synthesis of Minimal Messenger RNA by Efficient Chemical Capping Reaction"
Naoko Abe, Akihiro Imaeda, Masahito Inagaki, Zhenmin Li, Daisuke Kawaguchi, Kaoru Onda,
Yuko Nakashima, Satoshi Uchida, Fumitaka Hashiya, Yasuaki Kimura, and Hiroshi Abe*
ACS Chem. Biol. 2022, 17, 1308−1314.
doi/10.1021/acschembio.1c00996.
36 (We thank Dr. Kin-ichi Oyama for assistance with elemental analysis.)
"Thermally Stable Array of Discrete C60s on a Two-Dimensional Crystalline Adlayer of Macrocycles
both in Vacuo and under Ambient Pressure"
Shin-ichiro Kawano,# Masato Nakaya,# Masaaki Saitow, Atsuki Ishiguro, Takeshi Yanai, Jun Onoe,
and Kentaro Tanaka*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 6749−6758.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c13610
35 (We sincerely thank Prof. Susumu Saito and Dr. Kin-ichi Oyama (Nagoya University.)
      for the CSI-MS measurements.)
"Three-center-four-electron halogen bond enables non-metallic complex catalysis
for Mukaiyama-Mannich-type reaction"
Shunya Oishi, Takeshi Fujinami, Yu Masui, Toshiyasu Suzuki, Masayuki Kato, Naoya Ohtsuka, Norie Momiyama*
iScience 2022, 25, 105220.
doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105220
34 (We thank Dr K. Oyama for elemental analysis.)
"Mesogenic discrete metallofoldamer for columnar liquid crystal"
Shin-ichiro Kawano, Kazutaka Narita, Yuka Ikemoto, Ako Sasaki, Kentaro Tanaka*
Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 3274–3277.
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc00310d
33 (We would like to thank the Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University
      for the use of UV–vis spectrophotometer and Kin-ichi Oyama for the technical support.)
"Abundance, chemical structure,and light absorption properties of humic‑like substances (HULIS)
and other organic fractions of forest aerosols in Hokkaido"
Sonia Afsana, Ruichen Zhou, Yuzo Miyazaki, Eri Tachibana, Dhananjay Kumar Deshmukh,
Kimitaka Kawamura, Michihiro Mochida
Scientific Reports, 2022, 12, 14379.
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18201-z
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