2013
"Cerium(IV) in an Acidic Solution: A ‘Non-Innocent’ Oxidant"
Masaki Yoshida and Shigeyuki Masaoka
in Cerium: Molecular Structure, Technological Applications and Health Effects (Ed., A. Izyumov, G. Plaksin), Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, 2013, pp. 177-185. (ISBN: 978-1-62257-670-8)
"Shape-Memory Nanopores Induced in Coordination Frameworks by Crystal Downsizing"
Yoko Sakata, Shuhei Furukawa, Mio Kondo, Kenji Hirai, Nao Horike, Yohei Takashima, Hiromitsu Uehara, Nicolas Louvain, Mikhail Meilikhov, Takaaki Tsuruoka, Seiji Isoda, Wataru Kosaka, Osami Sakata, Susumu Kitagawa
Science, 2013, 339, 193-196.
2012
"A Mononuclear Ruthenium Complex Showing Multiple Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer toward Multi-electron Transfer Reactions"
Masaya Okamura, Masaki Yoshida, Reiko Kuga, Ken Sakai, Mio Kondo, and Shigeyuki Masaoka
Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 13081-13089.
"Mesoscopic architectures of porous coordination polymers fabricated by pseudomorphic replication"
Julien Reboul, Shuhei Furukawa, Nao Horike, Manuel Tsotsalas, Kenji Hirai, Hiromitsu Uehara, Mio Kondo, Nicolas Louvain, Osami Sakata, Susumu Kitagawa
Nature Materials, 2012, 11, 717-723.
"Photoinduced Hydrogen Evolution from Water Based on a Z-Scheme Photosynthesis by a Simple Platinum(II) Terpyridine Derivative"
Masayuki Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 7431-7434.
"Targeted functionalisation of a hierarchically-structured porous coordination polymer crystal enhances its entire function"
Kenji Hirai, Shuhei Furukawa, Mio Kondo, Mikhail Meilikhov, Yoko Sakata, Osami Sakata, and Susumu Kitagawa
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 6472-6474.
"Synthesis, Crystal Structure, Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Properties, and H2-Evolving Activity of a New [PtCl(terpyridine)]+ Derivative with Viologen-like Redox Properties"
Masayuki Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 4903-4911.
"Preparation, Characterization, Biological Activity and 3D Molecular Modeling of Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Pd(II) and Ru(III) Complexes of Some Sulfadrug Schiff Bases"
Hoda A. El-Ghamry, Ken Sakai, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Kamal Y. El-Baradie, Raafat M. Issa
Chin. J. Chem.,, 2012, 30, 881-890.
"Synthesis and characterization of self-assembled coordination polymers of N-diaminomethylene-4-(3-formyl-4-hydroxy-phenylazo)-benzenesulfonamide"
Hoda El-Ghamry, Ken Sakai, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Kamal El-Baradie, and Raafat Issa
J. Coord. Chem., 2012, 65, 780-794.
"Tuning of Redox Potentials by Introducing a Cyclometalated Bond to Bis-tridentate Ruthenium(II) Complexes Bearing Bis(Nmethylbenzimidazolyl)benzene or -pyridine Ligands"
Wen-Wen Yang, Yu-Wu Zhong, Shinpei Yoshikawa, Jiang-Yang Shao, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Ken Sakai, Jiannian Yao, and Masa-aki Haga
Inorg. Chem., 2012, 51, 890-899.
"Kinetics and DFT Studies on Water Oxidation by Ce4+ Catalyzed by [Ru(terpy)(bpy)(OH2)]2+"
Ayano Kimoto, Kosei Yamauchi, Masaki Yoshida, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 239-241.
"Self-assembly of Tubular Microstructures from Mixed-valence Metal Complexes and their Reversible Transformation via External Stimuli"
Keita Kuroiwa, Masaki Yoshida, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Kenji Kaneko, Ken Sakai, and Nobuo Kimizuka
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 656–659.
2011
"Protonation-Induced Cyclization of 1,8-Bis(diarylethynyl)anthraquinones: Monopyrylium Salt Formation and Intensification of Donor-Acceptor Interaction"
Koya Prabhakara Rao, Mio Kondo, Ryota Sakamoto, Tetsuro Kusamoto, Shoko Kume, and Hiroshi Nishihara
Chem. Lett., 2011, 40, 1456-1458.
"Benzo[e]pyrene Skeleton Dipyrylium Dication with a Strong Donor–Acceptor–Donor Interaction, and Its Two-Electron Reduced Molecule"
Koya Prabhakara Rao, Mio Kondo, Ryota Sakamoto, Tetsuro Kusamoto, Michihiro Nishikawa, Shoko Kume, Masayuki Nihei, Hiroki Oshio, and Hiroshi Nishihara
Chem. Eur. J., 2011, 17, 14010-14019.
"Stability of Pt(II)-Based H2-Evolving Catalysts against H2 in Aqueous Solution"
Kosei Yamauchi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 12447-12449.
"Sequential Functionalization of Porous Coordination Polymer Crystals"
Kenji Hirai, Shuhei Furukawa, Mio Kondo, Hiromitsu Uehara, Osami Sakata, and Susumu Kitagawa
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 8057–8061.
"Porous Coordination Polymer Hybrid Device with Quartz Oscillator: Effect of Crystal Size on Sorption Kinetics"
Hiromitsu Uehara, Stephane Diring, Shuhei Furukawa, Ziya Kalay, Manuel Tsotsalas, Masashi Nakahama, Kenji Hirai, Mio Kondo, Osami Sakata, and Susumu Kitagawa
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 11932–11935.
"Proton-Induced Tuning of Metal-Metal Communication in Rack-Type Dinuclear Ru Complexes Containing Benzimidazolyl Moieties"
Katsuaki Kobayashi, Masamichi Ishikubo, Katsuhiko Kanaizuka, Keiko Kosuge, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Ken Sakai, Koichi Nozaki, and Masa-aki Haga
Chem. Eur. J., 2011, 17, 6954-6963.
"Oxygen Evolution from Water Catalyzed by Mononuclear Aquaruthenium Complexes"
Masaki Yoshida, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
J. Synth. Org. Chem., Jpn., 2011, 69, 370-378. (written in Japanese)
"MOF-on-MOF Heteroepitaxy: Perfectly oriented [Zn2(ndc)2(dabco)]n grown on [Cu2(ndc)2(dabco)]n thin films"
Osama Shekhah, Kenji Hirai, Hui Wang, Hiromitsu Uehara, Mio Kondo, Stéphane Diring, Denise Zacher, Roland A. Fischer, Osami Sakata, Susumu Kitagawa, Shuhei Furukawa, and Christof Wöll
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 4954-4958.
"Syntheses, Characterization, and Photochemical Properties of Amidate-Bridged Pt(bpy) Dimers Tethered to Ru(bpy)32+ Derivatives"
Masanari Hirahara, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 3967-3978.
"Light-Induced Charge Separation and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Water using RuIIPtII-Based Molecular Devices: Effects of Introducing Additional Donor and/or Acceptor Sites"
Gopalakrishnan Ajayakumar, Masayuki Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 3955-3966.
"Molecular decoding using luminescence from an entangled porous framework"
Yohei Takashima, Virginia Martinez Martinez, Shuhei Furukawa, Mio Kondo, Satoru Shimomura, Hiromitsu Uehara, Masashi Nakahama, Kunihisa Sugimoto, and Susumu Kitagawa
Nature Communications, 2011, 2, 168.
"Platinum(II)-Based Hydrogen-Evolving Catalysts Linked to Multipendant Viologen Acceptors: Experimental and DFT Indications for Bimolecular Pathways"
Makoto Ogawa, Gopalakrishnan Ajayakumar, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz, and Ken Sakai
Chem. Eur. J., 2011, 17, 1148-1162.
2010
"Photochemical and Thermal Hydrogen Production from Water Catalyzed by Carboxylate-Bridged Dirhodium(II) Complexes"
Saya Tanaka, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Kosei Yamauchi, Masahiko Annaka, and Ken Sakai
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 11218-11226.
"Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution from Water at an ITO Electrode Modified with [Ru(terpy){4,4'-(CH2PO3H2)2-2,2'-bpy}(OH2)]2+: Evidence for a Unimolecular Pathway"
Josaku Kiyota, Junpei Yokoyama, Masaki Yoshida, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Chem. Lett., 2010, 39, 1146-1148.
"Catalysis of Mononuclear Aquaruthenium Complexes in Oxygen Evolution from Water: A New Radical Coupling Path using Hydroxocerium(IV) Species"
Masaki Yoshida, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Jiro Abe, and Ken Sakai
Chem. Asian J., 2010, 5, 2369-2378.
"Syntheses, Characterization, and Photo-Hydrogen-Evolving Properties of Tris(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) Derivatives Tethered to an H2-Evolving (2-phenylpyridinato)platinum(II) Unit"
Masayuki Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Molecules, 2010, 15, 4908-4923.
"Frontier Orbital Engineering of Photo-Hydrogen-Evolving Molecular Devices: a Clear Relationship Between the H2-Evolving Activity and the Energy Level of the LUMO"
Shigeyuki Masaoka, Yuichiro Mukawa, and Ken Sakai
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 5868-5876. (Selected as a Hot Article)
"Photo-Hydrogen-Evolving Molecular Catalysts Consisting of Polypyridyl Ruthenium(II) Photosensitizers and Platinum(II) Catalysts: Insights into the Reaction Mechanism"
Hironobu Ozawa, Masayuki Kobayashi, Bijitha Balan, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Chem. Asian J., 2010, 5, 1860-1869.
"Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Tris(2,2´-bipyridine)ruthenium(II)-Viologen Dyads with Peptide Backbones Leading to Long-Lived Charge Separation and Hydrogen Evolution"
Makoto Ogawa, Bijitha Balan, Gopalakrishnan Ajayakumar, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz, Masayasu Muramatsu, Syoji Ito, Yutaka Nagasawa, Hiroshi Miyasaka, and Ken Sakai
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 4421-4434.
2009
"Kinetic Resolution of P-Chirogenic Compounds by Pd-catalyzed Alcoholysis of Vinyl ethers"
Hisashi Itoh, Eiji Yamamoto, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Ken Sakai, and Makoto Tokunaga
Adv. Synth. Cat., 2009, 351, 1796-1800.
"Evidence for Pt(II)-Based Molecular Catalysis in the Thermal Reduction of Water into Molecular Hydrogen"
Kosei Yamauchi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 8404-8406.
"Oxygen Evolution from Water Catalyzed by Mononuclear Ruthenium Complexes with a Triazamacrocyclic Ligand in a Facial Fashion"
Masaki Yoshida, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Chem. Lett., 2009, 38, 702-703.
"Dibromido(2,3,9,10-tetramethyl-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradeca-1,3,8,10-tetraene)- cobalt(III) bromide"
Hoda El-Ghamry, Raafat Issa, Kamal El-Baradie, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Acta Cryst., 2009, E65, m1378-m1379.
"Photo-Hydrogen-Evolving Activity of Chloro(terpyridine)platinum(II): a Single-Component Molecular Photocatalyst"
Reiko Okazaki, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Dalton Trans., 2009, 6127-6133.
"Hydrogen Production from Water Catalyzed by an Air-stable Di-iron Complex with a Bio-relevant Fe2(μ-S)2 Core"
Toshiki Yamaguchi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Chem. Lett., 2009, 38, 434-435.
"Bis(2,2'-bipyridine){ethyl4'-[N-(4-carbamoylphenyl)carbamoyl]-2,2'-bipyridine-4-carboxylate}ruthenium(II) bis[hexafluoridophosphate(V)]"
Masanari Hirahara, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Acta Cryst., 2009, E65, m228-m229.
"Synthesis, Crystal Structure, Solution and Spectroscopic Properties, and Hydrogen-Evolving Activity of [K(18-Crown-6)][Pt(II)(2-phenylpyridinato)Cl2]"
Masayuki Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2009, 8, 196-203.
"Clear Evidence Showing the Robustness of a Highly Active Oxygen-Evolving Mononuclear Ruthenium Complex with an Aqua Ligand"
Shigeyuki Masaoka and Ken Sakai
Chem. Lett., 2009, 38, 182-183.
"Bis(triethylammonium) bis(μ-pyrazine-2,3-dithiolato)bis(pyrazine-2,3-dithiolato)diferrate(III) methanol disolvate"
Toshiki Yamaguchi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Acta Cryst., 2009, E65, m77-m78.
"Chemistry of Photo-Hydrogen-Evolving Molecular Devices"
Shigeyuki Masaoka, Masayuki Kobayashi and Ken Sakai
Photochemistry, 2009, 40, 118-121. (written in Japanese)
"O2-evolving Catalysis of Mononuclear Ruthenium Complexes"
Shigeyuki Masaoka, Masaki Yoshida, and Ken Sakai
J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 2009, Suppl 1, S231. (proceeding)
"Oxygen Evolution from Water Catalyzed by Mononuclear Ruthenium Complexes with a Triazamacrocycle Ligand in a Facial Fashion"
Masaki Yoshida, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 2009, Suppl 1, S230. (proceeding)
"Hydrogen Production from Water Catalyzed by Di-iron Complexes with a Biorelevant Fe2(m-S)2 Core"
Toshiki Yamaguchi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 2009, Suppl 1, S225. (proceeding)
2008
"Diaqua(1,4,7,10,13-pentaoxacyclopentadecane)iron(II) bis(μ-cis-1,2-dicyano-1,2-ethylenedithiolato)bis[(cis-1,2-dicyano-1,2-ethylenedithiolato)ferrate(III)]1,4,7,10,13-pentaoxacyclopentadecanedisolvate"
Toshiki Yamaguchi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Acta Cryst., 2008, E64, m1557.
"Chrolo(dimethylsulfoxide)(phenylpyridinato)platinum(II)"
Masayuki Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Acta Cryst., 2008, E64, m1325.
"N-(1,10-phenanthrolin-5-yl)-4-(pyridin-2-yl)benzamide monohydrate"
Masayuki Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Acta Cryst., 2008, E64, o1979.
"Catalytic Oxygen Evolution from Water by Robust Metal Complexes"
Shigeyuki Masaoka
Bull. Jpn. Soc. Coord. Chem., 2008, 51, 66-67. (written in Japanese)
"4-[(3-Formyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)diazenyl]-N-(pyrimidin-2-yl)benzenesulfonamide"
Hoda El-Ghamry, Raafat Issa, Kamal El-Baradie, Keiko Isagai, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Acta Cryst., 2008, E64, o1673-o1674.
"1-[4-(Diaminomethyleneaminosulfonyl)phenyliminiomethyl]-2-naphtholate N,N-dimethylformamide disolvate"
Hoda El-Ghamry, Raafat Issa, Kamal El-Baradie, Keiko Isagai, Shigeyuki Masaoka, and Ken Sakai
Acta Cryst., 2008, E64, o1350-o1351.
"A Mixed-Valence [MnIIMnIIIMnII] Complex of a Linear Phenol-bis-pyrazole Ligand with an S = 3 Spin Ground State"
Leoni A. Barrios, Guillem Aromi, Jorge Salinas Uber, Olivier Roubeau, Ken Sakai, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Patrick Gamez, and Jan Reedijk
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2008, 24, 3871-3876.
2007
"The first example of regiospecific magnesium carbenoid 1,3-CH insertion: its mechanism and stereochemistry"
Shingo Ogata, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Ken Sakai, and Tsuyoshi Satoh
Tetrahedron Lett., 2007, 48, 5017-5021.
"Multinuclear Metal Complexes toward Solar Energy Conversion"
Shigeyuki Masaoka, Ken Sakai
Kagaku (Kyoto, Japan), 2007, 62(10), 70-71. (written in Japanese)
"cis-Dichlorobis(4-methylpyridine-κN)platinum(II)"
Ken Sakai, Yuki Yokoyama, and Shigeyuki Masaoka
Acta Cryst., 2007, E63, m97-m99.
2006
"Chemical Reaction -Inspired Crystal Growth of a Coordination Polymer Toward Morphology Design and Control"
Shigeyuki Masaoka, Daisuke Tanaka, Hiroyuki Kitahata, Sumiko Araki, Ryotaro Matsuda, Kenichi Yoshikawa, Kenichi Kato, Masaki Takata, and Susumu Kitagawa
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 15799-15808.
"Porous Coordination Polymer with π Lewis Acidic Pore Surface, {[Cu3(CN)3{hat-(CN)3(OEt)3}]•3THF}n"
Daisuke Tanaka, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Satoshi Horike, Shuhei Furukawa, Motohiro Mizuno, Kazunaka Endo, and Susumu Kitagawa
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 4628-4631.
2005
"Effects of the Metal-Assisted Assembling Mode on the Redox States of Hexaazatriphenylene Hexacarbonitrile"
Shuhei Furukawa, Takashi Okubo, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Daisuke Tanaka, Ho-Chol Chang, and Susumu Kitagawa
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 44, 2700-2704.
"A facile and versatile preparation of bilindiones and biladienones from tetraarylporphyrins"
Takae Yamauchi, Tadashi Mizutani, Kenji Wada, Shoji Horii, Hirotaka Furukawa, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Ho-Chol Chang, and Susumu Kitagawa
Chem. Commun., 2005, 1309-1311.
2004
"Reaction-Temperature-Dependent Supramolecular Isomerism of Coordination Networks Based on the Organometallic Building Block [CuI2(μ2-BQ)(μ2-OAc)3] (BQ = p-benzoquinone)"
Shigeyuki Masaoka, Daisuke Tanaka, Yasuhiro Nakahishi, and Susumu Kitagawa
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2004, 43, 2530-2534.
"Threshold Excitation of Co Kβ"
Jun Kawai, Shingo Harada, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Susumu Kitagawa, Toshiaki Iwazumi, Yasuhito Isozumi, Hironobu Shoji and Susumu Nanao
Adv. X-Ray Chem. Anal. Japan., 2004, 35, 93-100. (written in Japanese)
2003
"Novel Cu(I) Dinuclear Complexes containing μ2-η2,η2-Type Benzoquinone Ligand"
Shigeyuki Masaoka, George Akiyama, Satoshi Horike, Susumu Kitagawa, Tomohiko Ida, and Kazunaka Endo
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 1152-1153.
"Metal Complexes of Hexaazatriphenylene (hat) and its Derivatives - From Oligonuclear Complexes to Coordination Polymers"
Susumu Kitagawa and Shigeyuki Masaoka
Coord. Chem. Rev., 2003, 246, 73-88.
"Synthesis, Characterization and Crystal Structure of Quaternary Complex of Gadolinium (III)"
Longguan Zhu, Guoqiang Cai, Guoping Wang, Susumu Kitagawa, and Shigeyuki Masaoka
J. Rare Earths, 2003, 21, 9-12.
2001
"A New Class of Cyclic Hexamer: [Co6L6]24- (H6L = hexaazatriphenylene hexacarboxylic acid)"
Shigeyuki Masaoka, Shuhei Furukawa, Ho-Chol Chang, Tadashi Mizutani, and Susumu Kitagawa
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2001, 40, 3817-3819.
2000
"Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of a Copper (I) Trinuclear Complex with D3h Symmetrical Radical Ligand"
Takashi Okubo, Susumu Kitagawa, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Shuhei Furukawa, Mitsuru Kondo, Taeyong Noh, Takashi Isoshima, Tatsuo Wada, and Hiroyuki Sasabe
Nonlinear Optics, 2000, 24, 129-132.
