The lab of Ken Itami believing the power of molecules. Synthetic chemistry, molecular nanocarbon science, catalysis, and chemical biology. Be unique, go crazy!
On April 1st, 2024, Ken Itami became the Chief Scientist and the director of Molecule Creation Laboratory at RIKEN and accordingly the Itami Lab has moved to RIKEN! We will explore out-of-the-box science powered by unique molecules!
Related to our previous Nature paper, we retracted two other papers dealing with graphene nanoribbons.
We deeply regret any confusion that may have been created with these papers and sincerely apologize to the scientific community.
The final version of our paper on adamantane annulation to arenes has appeared in
@J_A_C_S
: . Congrats Takaku Yoshihara for developing such a nice reaction! Simple yet very powerful way to modulate the properties of aromatics. Great day (2 JACS in a day)!
The most enjoyable, informative, and educational review by Ken Houk on the evolution of Diels-Alder reaction mechanism! This is the history and we all should read! Lots of story of RB Woodward and the final Coda by Roald Hoffmann is just wonderful!
I was so disappointed to see the retracted
@angew_chem
article by Hudlicky. Promoting racist and sexist views points are just unacceptable. Diversity is a enabling element for everything and we will keep on enjoying and appreciating diversity-enabled great science.
The first triply twisted Möbius carbon nanobelt! The enantiomers were also isolated, showing large dissymmetric factor. This collaborative work with H. Isobe’s team was just posted in
@ChemRxiv
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@FanWei_NUS
@tmfukunaga
The final version of our lithium-mediated mechano-cyclodehydrogenation has appeared in
@J_A_C_S
today: . Once again, congrats all!!! Very nice birthday present:)
Our recent
@ChemRxiv
preprint on the in-insect synthesis of oxygen-doped molecular nanocarbons has been highlighted in
@cenmag
! Many thanks for being interested in our work!
Hiroki’s symmetrical and half-substituted fluoro-CPPs are now out in
@ChemCommun
! One of the derivatives was converted to densely substituted CPP with 16 pyrrole rings with the largest average torsion angle ever observed for CPPs! Huge congrats Hiroki!
A timely Account paper on our "Topologically Unique Molecular Nanocarbons" is now online. Belt, cage, catenane, and knot are introduced.
Thanks Nazario and Grapham for inviting us to their special issue “Advanced Molecular Nanocarbons”!!
Thinking at molecular and atomic levels produces research aimed at highly precise and accurate processes and the creation of new materials.
The latest issue of Precision Chemistry shows the outcome of these approaches.
Check it out 👉
We retracted our recently published paper regarding the synthesis of graphene nanoribbons for the reasons summarized here: . We deeply regret any confusion that may have been created by this publication and sincerely apologize to the scientific community.
Our July issue is here!
🛟 Möbius carbon nanobelts
🎯Synthesis of (+)-ribostamycin
⚙️Synthesis of β-functionalized chiral amines
🏅C–H metallation of tetrahydrofuran and application in flow
⭐️Cooperative triple catalysis for Mizoroki–Heck reactions
Very honored to receive this year’s Paul G. Gassman Lectureship from University of Minnesota
@UMNChemistry
and deliver three lectures on March 14-16th ,2023. As always, this recognition goes to all the past and present members of Itami Lab! Congrats all!
New paradigms in molecular nanocarbon science, just appeared in the 65th anniversary special issue of Tetrahedron. Great job Iain, Mai and Akiko! Our ability to access beautiful, unique nanocarbon structures is limited only by our imaginations.
Check out our new paper “Rapid access to polycyclic thiopyrylium compounds from unfunctionalized aromatics by thia-APEX reaction” in
@ChemCommun
. Congrats Kou for developing awesome new reaction!
Dr. Yasutomo Segawa, the group leader of the chemical synthesis group in Itami ERATO project, has been promoted to an Associate Professor (PI) in Institute of Molecular Science!! Congrats!!
Thanks for selecting as a Hot Paper and thanks for the referees for constructive comments! Special thanks goes to
@HagiLab1
for his inspiration that led us to initiate our work in making and using catenated CPPs for various applications!
Noncovalent Modification of Cycloparaphenylene by Catenane Formation Using an Active Metal Template Strategy (Kenichiro Itami and co-workers)
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@yagiakiko1