About the Research
Research Theme
Investigation of Structural, Physical and Functional Properties of Aliphatic Polyketones a.k.a. Carbonyl Ropes
Keyword
organic synthesis, non-covalent interactions, functional organic materials, porous frameworks, stable organic radicals, paramagnetic liquid crystals
Research History
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Representative Research Achievement
- A Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework Based on Redox-Active Tri(dithiolylidene)cyclohexanetrione
K. I. Shivakumar, S-i. Noro, Y. Yamaguchi, Y. Ishigaki, A. Saeki, K. Takahashi, T. Nakamura, I. Hisaki, Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 1157-1160
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC07776C - Photoconductive Bent-Core Liquid Crystalline Radicals with a Paramagnetic Polar Switchable Phase
K. I. Shivakumar, D. Pociecha, J. Szczytko, S. Kapuscinski, H. Monobe, P. Kaszynski, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 1083-1088
DOI: 10.1039/C9TC05764A - Conducting Nanofibres of Solvatofluorochromic Cyclohexanetrione–Dithiolylidene-Based C3 Symmetric Molecule
K. I. Shivakumar, Goudappagouda; R. Gonnade, S. S. Babu, G. J. Sanjayan, Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 212-215
DOI: 10.1039/C7CC08741A - Mixed-Stack Charge Transfer Crystals of Pillar[5]quinone and Tetrathiafulvalene Exhibiting Ferroelectric Features
K. I. Shivakumar, K. Swathi, Goudappagouda, T. Das, A. Kumar, R.D. Makde, K. Vanka, K. S. Narayan, S. S. Babu, G. J. Sanjayan, Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 12630-12635.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201702577 - Exploiting Powder X-ray Diffraction to Establish the Solvent-Assisted Solid-State Supramolecular Assembly of Pillar[5]quinone
K. I. Shivakumar, Y. Yan, C. E. Hughes, D. C. Apperley, K. D. M. Harris, G. J. Sanjayan, Cryst. Growth Des., 2015, 15, 1583-1587.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00277
Related Research
- Determining Critical Chain Length for Macromolecular Crystallization of Polyketones
- Cyclic polyketones shown to act as ‘traps’ for alkali metal ions and catalyze halogen exchange reactions
Publications
2022
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Determination of the Critical Chain Length for Macromolecular Crystallization Using Structurally Flexible Polyketones
, Y. Manabe, Y. Inaba, Y. Kinoshita, J. Pirillo, Y. Hijikata, T. Yoneda, K. I. Shivakumar, S. Tanaka, H. Asakawa, Y. Inokuma, Chem. Sci., 2022, 13, 9848-9854
DOI: 10.1039/d2sc03083g
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Alkali Metal Ion Binding Using Cyclic Polyketones
, K. I. Shivakumar, M. Murugavel, Y. Inaba, T. Yoneda, Y. Ide, J. Pirillo, Y. Hijikata, Y. Inokuma, Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 2971-2974
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc00361a