Hokkaido University

Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery

2025

• Optical Waveguiding Charge-Transfer Cocrystals: Examining the Impact of Molecular Rotations on Their Photoluminescence
  A. Navarro-Huerta, T. Matsuo, A. Mikherdov, J. Blahut, E. Bartunková, P. Jiang, M. Dracínsky, S. Teat, M. Jin, S. Hayashi, B. Rodríguez-Molina, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 10, 8343–8349
  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c15957
  
• Defluorinative C-O Coupling between Trifluoromethylarenes and Alcohols via Copper Photoredox Catalysis
  P. Saha, M. Jin, D. Huang, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2025, 64,
  DOI: 10.1002/anie.202419591
  
• Solid-State Aromatic Nucleophilic Fluorination: A Rapid, Practical, and Environmentally Friendly Route to N-Heteroaryl Fluorides
  K. Kubota, T. Makino, K. Kondo, T. Seo, M. Jin, H. Ito, GREEN CHEMISTRY, 2025, ,
  DOI: 10.1039/d4gc06362g
  

2024

• Encasing Triaryltriazine with a Bulky Chiral Cap: Luminescent Chiral Crystalline Molecular Rotors with Modulation of Solid-State Chiroptical Properties Mediated by Molecular Rotation
  N. Kim, P. Jiang, R. Tomita, A. Sato-Tomita, A. Mikherdov, B. Kim, M. Jin, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 31062-31073
  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c10890
  
• Solid-State Dynamics of Binuclear N-Heterocyclic Carbene Au(I) Rotor with Para-Phenylene Rotator
  P. Jiang, A. Mikherdov, H. Ito, M. Jin, Chem. Lett., 2024, 53, 7, upae139
  DOI: 10.1093/chemle/upae139
  
• Crystallization-Induced Chirality Transfer in Conformationally Flexible Azahelicene Au(I) Complexes with Circularly Polarized Luminescence Activation
  P. Jiang, A. S. Mikherdov, H. Ito, M. Jin, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, ,
  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c00345
  
• Pitched π-Stacking Crystal Structure and Two-Dimensional Electronic Structure of Acenaphtho[1,2-k]Fluoranthene Analogues with Various Substituents
  T. Yuki, S. Yokokura, M. Jin, H. Waizumi, T. Nagahama, T. Shimada, Crystal Growth & Design, 2024, 24, 4, 1849–1856
  DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.3c01510
  

2023

• A Steric-Repulsion-Driven Clutch Stack of Triaryltriazines: Correlated Molecular Rotations and a Thermoresponsive Gearshift in the Crystalline Solid
  M. Jin, R. Kitsu, N. Hammyo, A. Sato-Tomita, M. Mizuno, A. S. Mikherdov, M. Tsitsvero, A. Lyalin, T. Taketsugu, H. Ito, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 50, 27512-27520
  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c08909
  
• Single Crystal Growth of Cyclopenta-Fused Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon by the Naphthalene Flux Method: 2D Ambipolar Charge Transport Properties and NIR Absorption
  Tanoguchi, H., Yuki, T., Yokokura, S., Yanase, T., Jin, M., Ito, H., Nagahama, T., Shimada, T., Acs Applied Electronic Materials, 2023, 5, 11, 6266–6274
  DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.3c01148
  
• Giant Crystalline Molecular Rotors that Operate in the Solid State
  R. Ando, A. Sato-Tomita, H. Ito, M. G. Jin, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2023, , e202309694
  DOI: 10.1002/anie.202309694
  
• Solid-State Mechanochemical Cross-Coupling of Insoluble Substrates into Insoluble Products by Removable Solubilizing Silyl Groups: Uniform Synthesis of Nonsubstituted Linear Oligothiophenes
  K. Kubota, K. Kondo, T. Seo, M. G. Jin, H. Ito, RSC Advances, 2023, 13, 28652-28657
  DOI: 10.1039/d3ra05571j
  
• Construction of a Helical Structure with a Parallel Alignment of Molecular Dipoles in Crystals by Utilizing a Halogen-3 Synthon and a Bulky Silyl Spacer
  N. Hammyo, M. G. Jin, H. Ito, Crystal Growth & Design, 2023, 23, 4514-4521
  DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.3c00282
  
• Exploring Au(i) Involving Halogen Bonding with N-Heterocyclic Carbene Au(i) Aryl Complexes in Crystalline Media
  A. S. Mikherdov, M. G. Jin, H. Ito, Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 4485-4494
  DOI: 10.1039/d3sc00373f
  
• In Situ and Real-Time Visualization of Mechanochemical Damage in Double-Network Hydrogels by Prefluorescent Probe via Oxygen- Relayed Radical Trapping
  Y. Zheng, J. L. Jiang, M. Jin, D. Miura, F. X. Lu, K. Kubota, T. Nakajima, S. Maeda, H. Ito, J. P. Gong, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 7376-7389
  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c13764
  
• Multidynamic Crystalline Molecular Rotors Comprising an N-Heterocyclic Carbene Binuclear Au(I) Complex Bearing Multiple Rotators
  M. G. Jin, S. Matsuura, H. Yamamoto, M. Mizuno, H. Ito, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2023, 26, 12,
  DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202201468
  

2022

• Solid-State Luminescence of Au(I) Complexes with External Stimuli-Responsive Properties
  M. Jin, H. Ito, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C-Photochemistry Reviews, 2022, 51,
  DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2021.100478
  

2021

• Distinct Fold-Mode Formation of Crystalline Cu(I) Helical Coordination Polymers with Alternation of the Solid-State Emission Using Shape of the Counter Anions
  M. Jin, R. Ando, H. Ito, Inorg. Chem., 2021, 61, 3-9
  DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02725
  
• Charge-Transfer Crystal with Segregated Packing Structure Constructed with Hexaarylbenzene and Tetracyanoquinodimethane
  R. Ando, M. Jin, H. Ito, Crystengcomm, 2021, 23, 5564-5568
  DOI: 10.1039/d1ce00726b
  
• Introduction of a Luminophore into Generic Polymers via Mechanoradical Coupling with a Prefluorescent Reagent
  K. Kubota, N. Toyoshima, D. Miura, J. L. Jiang, S. Maeda, M. Jin, H. Ito, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 16003-16008
  DOI: 10.1002/anie.202105381
  
• Encapsulating N-Heterocyclic Carbene Binuclear Transition-Metal Complexes as a New Platform for Molecular Rotation in Crystalline Solid-State
  M. Jin, R. Ando, M. J. Jellen, M. A. Garcia-Garibay, H. Ito, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 1144-1153
  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c11981
  

2019

• Anisotropic Thermal Expansion as the Source of Macroscopic and Molecular Scale Motion in Phosphorescent Amphidynamic Crystals
  M. Jin, S. Yamamoto, T. Seki, H. Ito, MA. Garcia-Garibay, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 18003-18010
  DOI: 10.1002/anie.201909048