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Publication List (2025)
"Visible light–driven stereodivergent allylation of cyclic hemiacetals with butene for polypropionate synthesis"
Kohei Fujiyoshi, Suguru Arii, Kenzo Yamatsugu, Harunobu Mitsunuma and Motomu Kanai
Tetrahedron
2026,
189, 135008
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2025.135008
Special Issue on H-Atom Transfer Chemistry edited by M. Kanai and T. Ooi (Invited) .
"Azaanthraquinone PCET Catalysis Enables Chemoselective Decarboxylative Functionalization of Diverse Carboxylic Acids"
Takeshi Inoue, Daiki Tomiya, Masaaki Fuki, Yasuhiro Kobori, Masahiro Higashi, Kaito Uesaka, Akira Yamakata, Shigehiro A. Kawashima, Kenzo Yamatsugu, Harunobu Mitsunuma and Motomu Kanai
J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2025,
ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c10807
* Highlighted by Department News Release.
"Visible light–driven stereodivergent allylation of cyclic hemiacetals with butene for polypropionate synthesis"
Hiroyasu Nakao, Mirja Md Mahamudul Hassan, Yusuke Nakamura, Moe Toyobe, Masahiro Higashi, Harunobu Mitsunuma and Motomu Kanai
Science
2025,
390, 272-278
DOI: 10.1126/science.adz0686
* Highlighted by Department News Release.
"Intracellular Catalytic Photooxygenation of α-Synuclein Amyloid"
Atsushi Iwai, Youhi Hwang, Hiroki Umeda, Taka Sawazaki, Ikumi Tomizawa, Maiko Ono, Makoto Higuchi, Youhei Sohma, Yukiko Hori, Taisuke Tomita, Harunobu Mitsunuma, Motomu Kanai
ChemistryEurope
2025,
Early View, e202500192
DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202500192 (invited)
"Catalytic Photooxygenation Demonstrates Therapeutic Efficacy in Transthyretin Amyloidosis"
Mina Yamane, Hiroki Umeda, Moe Toyobe, Atsushi Iwai, Kuraudo Ishihara, Genki Kudo, Harunobu Mitsunuma, Yukiko Hori, Taisuke Tomita, Mineyuki Mizuguchi, Masamitsu Okada, Mitsuharu Ueda, Yukio Ando, Shigehiro A. Kawashima, Youhei Sohma, Hironori Kaji, Takatsugu Hirokawa, Kunitoshi Yamanaka, Motomu Kanai
J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2025,
147, 28860–28874
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c06205
* Highlighted by Department News Release, UT Press Release and Chem-Station.
"Induced Bioconjugation via On-Demand Isocyanate Formation"
Yuki Yamanashi, Menghan Xu, Shigehiro A. Kawashima, Motomu Kanai
J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2025,
147, 27232–27237
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c11603
* Highlighted by Department News Release, UT Press Release, Chem-Station and Science Japan.
"Designer Catalyst-Enabled Regiodivergent Histone Acetylation"
Tamiko Nozaki, Mayu Onoda, Misuzu Habazaki, Yuma Takeuchi, Hisashi Ishida, Yuko Sato, Tomoya Kujirai, Kayo Hanada, Kenzo Yamatsugu, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Hiroshi Kimura, Hidetoshi Kono, Shigehiro A. Kawashima, Motomu Kanai
J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2025,
147, 13732–13743
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c01699
* Highlighted by Department News Release.
"A Method for Constructing Nucleosome Arrays with Spatially Defined Histone PTMs and DNA Damage"
Ziyun Liu, Siqi Xi, Lauren A. McGregor, Kenzo Yamatsugu, Shigehiro A. Kawashima, Jonathan T. Sczepanski, Motomu Kanai
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2025,
64, e202500162.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202500162
* Highlighted by Department News Release.
"Ion-Pair Hydrogen Atom Transfer Catalysis Enables Cr-Catalyzed Allylation of Ketones Using Hydrocarbon Alkenes"
Suguru Arii, Zonghan Yu, Hongyu Chen, Harunobu Mitsunuma, Motomu Kanai
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2025,
64, e202503249.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202503249
* Highlighted by Department News Release.
"Catalytic Phosphorylation of Tyrosine via a Radical Arbuzov Reaction"
Benjamin D. A. Shennan, Tomoyuki Fukuta, Mina Yamane, Takashi Koyama, Harunobu Mitsunuma, Motomu Kanai
J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2025,
147, 6349–6354.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c17637
* Highlighted by Department News Release and UT Press Release.
"Chemical catalyst manipulating cancer epigenome and transcription"
Yuki Yamanashi, Shinpei Takamaru, Atsushi Okabe, Satoshi Kaito, Yuto Azumaya, Yugo R. Kamimura, Kenzo Yamatsugu, Tomoya Kujirai, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Atsushi Iwama, Atsushi Kaneda, Shigehiro A. Kawashima, Motomu Kanai
Nat. Commun.
2025,
16, 887.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56204-2
* Highlighted by Department News Release and UT Press Release.
"Behind the paper" was posted on Chemistry Community.
"Catalytic acceptorless complete dehydrogenation of cycloalkanes"
Rahul A. Jagtap, Yuki Nishioka, Stephen M. Geddis, Yu Irie, Tsukasa Takanashi, Rintaro Adachi, Akira Yamakata, Masaaki Fuki, Yasuhiro Kobori, Harunobu Mitsunuma, Motomu Kanai
Nat. Commun.
2025,
16, 428.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55460-y
* Highlighted by UT press release, JST Press Release and 日本経済新聞.
Review, Account, Book
"「触媒医療」の幕開け 化学触媒によるエピゲノム操作でがん治療の可能性を広げる"
山崎万葉・川島茂裕・金井求
現代化学,
2025, 11月号
"A reflection on ketoABNO: the crossing point between organic synthesis and protein modification"
Moe Toyobe and Motomu Kanai
Chem. Sci.,
2025, 16, 18478-18481.
DOI: 10.1039/D5SC90203G.
"常温・可視光でアルカンから水素を取り出す触媒の開発"
三ツ沼治信、金井求
クリーンエネルギー,
2025, 34, 27-33.
"ヒストンエピゲノムを書き込む触媒 Designer Catalysts for Histone Epigenome Modulation"
小野田真由、金井求
月刊ファインケミカル,
2025, 9月号, 【特集】有機分子触媒: 加速する触媒化学の現在地(2).
"Enhancing reaction efficiency in photochemical organic synthesis by controlling the dynamic effects of excitons"
Harunobu Mitsunuma, Ryosuke Matsubara
J. Chem. Phys.,
2025, 162, 100902.
DOI: 10.1063/5.0240938.
"Proteolytic therapeutic modalities for amyloidoses: Insights into immunotherapy, PROTAC, and photo-oxygenation"
Mai Kuriyama, Chu Fan Wang, Tatsuya Nagase, Youhei Sohma, Motomu Kanai, Yukiko Hori, Taisuke Tomita
Neurotherapeutics,
2025, e00548.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurot.2025.e00548.
"Spectral control of photoenzyme through allosteric chromophore tuning"
Menghan Xu, Yuki Yamanashi, Motomu Kanai
Chem,
2025, 11, 102430.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102430.
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