Original Paper

• Ring Cleavage for Ring Construction: Oxidative Heterocyclic Segregation toward Tribenzophenanthrolines
  　Takanori Suzuki*, Kota Asai, Takeru Saito, Johnny Hu, Takuya Shimajiri, Yusuke Ishigaki*
  　Chem. Eur. J., 31, e202501974 (2025). 10.1002/chem.202501974
• Mechanism for Expansion or Contraction of Extremely Elongated C–C Single Bond by Substituents: “Seesaw” Principle in Bis(dibenzocycloheptatriene)s
  　Soki Kawaguchi, Takuya Shimajiri*, Yuta Kawakami, Yusuke Ishigaki*, Takanori Suzuki*
  　Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 98, uoaf054 (2025). 10.1093/bulcsj/uoaf054
• Merging π-molecular functions achieved through homogeneous liquid-liquid blending of solvent-free alkyl-π liquids
  　Zhenfeng Guo, Chengjun Pan*, Akira Shinohara, Takashi Nakanishi*
  　Sci. Technol. Adv. Mater., Vol. 26, 2515007 (2025). 10.1080/14686996.2025.2515007
• Diverse redox-mediated transformations to realize the para-quinoid, σ-bond, and ortho-diphenoquinoid forms
  　Takashi Harimoto*, Moto Kikuchi, Takanori Suzuki, Yusuke Ishigaki*
  　Nat. Commun., 16, 4088 (2025). 10.1038/s41467-025-59317-w
• Alkyl-π Liquids as Condensed-State Singlet Oxygen Photosensitizers
  　Ravindra Kumar Gupta, Takashi Nakanishi*, Daniel T. Payne*
  　Chem. Eur. J., 31, e202500739 (2025). 10.1002/chem.202500739
• Oxygen Quantification Based on the Persistent Phosphorescence Lifetime of Host–Guest Nanocrystals
  　Riku Shimura, Kikuya Hayashi, Sakuya Ueda, Rana Tsuru, Shuzo Hirata*
  　ACS Materials Lett., 7, 2049-2055 (2025). 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.5c00306
• Selective Lower-Occupied Through-Bond Interactions for Efficient Organic Phosphorescence Enabling High-Resolution Long-Wavelength Afterglow
  　Rajashekhar K. Mulimani, Sakuya Ueda, Ryo Miyashita, Rana Tsuru, Kikuya Hayashi, Riku Shimura, Bahadur Sk, Shinji Matsuda, Shuzo Hirata*
  　Adv. Mater. 37, 2502611 (2025). 10.1002/adma.202502611
• Synchronizing the nπ* Transition Dipole in a Benzoyl-Linked N-Fused Ring for Highly Efficient Yellow Afterglow
  　Bahadur Sk, Riku Shimura, Kazuki Fujita, Shuzo Hirata*
  　J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 16, 3904-3910 (2025). 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c00429

Reviews

Awards

• 石垣侑祐（北海道大学, A02 石垣グループ)
  　 2025年度（第21回）野副記念奨励賞
  　 "特異な共有結合をもつ高歪分子に関する研究"
  　基礎有機化学会, 2025年9月10日.
• 菊池モト（北海道大学, D2, A02 石垣グループ)
  　 Best Poster賞
  　 "静水圧印加により駆動するシクロファン型ジカチオンの還元反応"
  　第37回万有札幌シンポジウム, 札幌 (日本), 2025年7月5日.
• Manami Hayashi (Nagoya University, D1, A04 Yanai Group)
  　 Poster Award
  　 "Development and application of an accurate excited state theory for large-scale complex systems: PNO-QD-NEVPT2 Method"
  　Current Trends in Electronic-Structure Theory (CTEST-2025), Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen (Denmark), June 20, 2025.
• Miku Naruse (Nagoya University, D3, A02 Yamaguchi Group)
  　 RSC Materials Horizons Poster Award
  　 "Thermodynamic and kinetic insights into the hydrogen-bond-based supramolecular polymerization in low-polarity biological media"
  　The 19th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC2025), Kyoto (Japan), May 30, 2025.
• Daiki Imoto (Nagoya University, D2, A01 Yagi Group)
  　 ISMSC 2025 Poster Award
  　 "Assembly of fluorocycloparaphenylenes and aromatic nanobelts" (P2A-89)
  　The 19th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC2025), Kyoto (Japan), May 30, 2025.

Invited Talks

• ナノ相分離液晶構造を活用した物質輸送・分離・動的機能の創出
  　吉尾 正史
  　高分子学会 25-1無機高分子研究会, 2025年10月17日, 積水化学工業（株）京都研究所・研修センター.
  　https://member.spsj.or.jp/event/index.php?id=717
• レドックス活性なπ共役有機分子の多彩な近赤外クロミズム
  　清水 章弘
  　2025電気化学秋季大会, 2025年9月5日, 鳥取大学.
  　https://pub.confit.atlas.jp/ja/event/ecsj2025f
• Stable and Isolable Diradicals with Oligo(9,10-anthrylene)s
  　Yusuke Ishigaki
  　IUPAC2025, 50th World Chemistry Congress (50WCC), July 16, 2025, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  　https://iupac2025.org/wcc-programme-detailed
• Controlling the Singlet–Triplet Energy Gap of m-Quinodimethane-Based Polycyclic Diradicals
  　Akihiro Shimizu, Shinobu Arikawa, Tetsuya Morikoshi, Ryo Shintani
  　IUPAC2025, 50th World Chemistry Congress (50WCC), July 16, 2025, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  　https://iupac2025.org/wcc-programme-detailed
• Creation of Nobel Nanocarbons Enabled by Rational Design for Modification of Arenes
  　Akiko Yagi
  　第32回光学活性化合物シンポジウム, June 20, 2025, 東京大学薬学部講堂.
  　https://www.chem-station.com/blog/2025/05/32oacs.html
• Towards Analytic Nuclear Gradient Methods for DMRG-Based Multireference Calculations
  　Takeshi Yanai
  　Current Trends in Electronic-Structure Theory (CTEST-2025), June 20, 2025, Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  　https://www.ctest2025.com/

Press Release

• 2025年6月19日　プレスリリース
  　ソフトエレクトロニクスには機能のブレンド　/ New method to blend functions for soft electronics（Kyodo News PR Wire / Asia Research News）　
• 2025年5月9日　プレスリリース
  　レドックス刺激により多様な分子骨格の構築を実現～機能性分子を構築する新規アプローチとして科学技術分野での応用性にも期待～（北海道大学）