MASAAKI NAKAMOTO

Last Updated :2025/04/03

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Associate Professor
E-mail
mnakamothiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 1999/04/01, 2001/03/31, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Special Postdoctoral Researcher
  • 2001/04/01, 2004/03/31, University of Tsukuba, Research Associate
  • 2004/04/01, 2005/01/15, University of Tsukuba, Researcher
  • 2005/01/16, 2006/09/30, University of Tsukuba, Research Associate
  • 2006/10/01, 2017/12/31, University of Tsukuba, Lecturer
  • 2018/01/01, 2020/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Associate Professor

Educational Backgrounds

  • hiroshima University, School of Science, Chemistry, Japan, 1990/04/01, 1999/03/25

Academic Degrees

  • Hiroshima University
  • Hiroshima University

Research Fields

  • Chemistry;Basic chemistry;Organic chemistry
  • Chemistry;Applied chemistry;Synthetic chemistry

Research Keywords

  • Main Group Element Chemistry
  • Silicon Chemistry
  • Low valent species
  • Highly Strained Molecules

Affiliated Academic Societies

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Special Study for Graduation
  2. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Special Study for Graduation
  3. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Chemical Experiments I
  4. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Chemical Experiments II
  5. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Fundamental Organic Chemistry
  6. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Introduction to Organic Chemistry
  7. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Exercises in Chemistry A
  8. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Exercises in Chemistry B
  9. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Master's Thesis in Chemistry
  10. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Doctoral Thesis in Chemistry

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. ★, Stable Silapyramidanes, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 145(8), 4757-4764, 20230214
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  2. Complexation-Triggered Fluctuation of π-Conjugation on an Antiaromatic Dicyanoanthracene Dianion, CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 29(70), 20231214
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  3. ★, Diels–Alder Super Diene Breaking Benzene into C2H2 and C4H4 Units, Nature Communications, 5, Article number: 3018, 20140108
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  4. Spectroscopic Observation of the Triplet Diradical State of a Cyclobutadiene., Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.,, 56(34), 10183-10187, 20170814
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  5. ★, Photoisomerization of Perfluoroaryltetrahedranes to Perfluoroarylcyclobutadienes., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133(41), 16436-16439, 20110916
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  6. Redox Activity of IrIII Complexes with Multidentate Ligands Based on Dipyrido-Annulated N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Access to High Valent and High Spin State with Carbon Donors, CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 29(63), 20231113
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  7. Ethynyl-B(dan) in [3+2] Cycloaddition and Larock Indole Synthesis: Synthesis of Stable Boron-Containing Heteroaromatic Compounds, CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 30(8), 20240207
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  8. Synthesis and Characterization of Hypervalent Pentacoordinate Carbon Compounds Bearing a 7-6-7-Ring Skeleton, CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 29(9), 20230210
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  9. High-power Electrochemical Energy Storage System Employing Stable Radical Pseudocapacitors., Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.,, 53(5), 1324-1328, 20131218
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  10. ★, The Cross-Coupling Reaction of a Highly Strained Molecule: Synthesis of New sigma-pi Conjugated Tetrahedranes., Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 52(41), 10740-10744, 20130826
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  11. Sulfur-Substituted Tetrahedranes., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133(30), 11504-11507, 20110705
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  12. ★, Perfluoroaryltetrahedranes: Tetrahedranes with Extended sigma-pi Conjugation., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131(9), 3172-3173, 20090218
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  13. ★, Stable Mononuclear Radical Anions of Heavier Group 13 Elements: [(tBu2MeSi)3E·-] [K+(2.2.2-cryptand)] (E = Al, Ga)., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127(19), 6954-6955, 20050422
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  14. ★, Nearly Planar Nonsolvated Monomeric Silyl- and Germyllithiums as a Result of an Intramolecular CH-Li Agostic Interaction, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124(51), 15160-15161, 20021126
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  15. ★, Isolable Silyl and Germyl Radicals Lacking Conjugation with-Bonds: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124(33), 9865-9869, 20020727
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  16. Complexation of B(C6F5)(3) and 9,10-Dicyanoanthracene: Dual Role of Borane as Spatial and Electronic Tuner, CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 49(9), 1022-1025, 202009
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Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Carbon-Silicon Mixed Cluster: Silapyramidane, Taiki Imagawa, Diego M. Andrada, Bernd Morgenstern, Hiroto Yoshida, Masaaki Nakamoto, and David Scheschkewitz, IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC-25), 2022/07/06, Without Invitation, English, INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY, Hiroshima

Awards

  1. 2005/10, Young Researcher Award, the Society of Silicon Chemistry of Japan, the Society of Silicon Chemistry of Japan

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. KAKENHI(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)), 2021, 2023
  2. KAKENHI(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)), 2018, 2020
  3. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2015, 2018
  4. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 高周期典型元素を基軸とする感応性開殻分子の創製と機能, 2012, 2016
  5. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, ケイ素—ケイ素三重結合を基盤とした高周期元素非平面π電子化合物の創製, 2012, 2015
  6. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research,, 2011, 2014
  7. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, テトラヘドランの新展開:高歪み分子による新しいσ-π共役分子の構築, 2009, 2011
  8. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 低配位及び多重結合高周期典型元素化合物の創製と物性に関する系統的研究, 2007, 2012
  9. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, ケイ素–リン三重結合化合物:異種高周期元素間多重結合の合成と性質の解明, 2007, 2009
  10. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 典型元素分子性クラスターの合成と電子構造の解明, 2005, 2007
  11. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 高周期典型元素開殻分子の合成、構造及び機能開発に関する研究, 2004, 2007
  12. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 高周期典型元素ラジカルの合成と電子物性の解明, 2003, 2005