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Recent Publications

96. Tomohito Ide,* Wei-Ci Huang, Masaki Horie,* “Tris-Azo Triangular Paraphenylenes: Synthesis and Reversible Interconversion into Radial π-Conjugated Macrocycles”,

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 10246–10250.

95. Rikuya Tanaka, Seiha Yamaoka, Shuichi Ikeda, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Hideto Minami, Nozomu Suzuki, Atsunori Mori,* “High-Intensity Circular Dichroism of Head-to-tail Regioregular Poly(1,4-phenylene)s in the Aggregated State”,

Chem. Eur. J. 2024, doi.org/10.1002/chem.202400706.

94. Toyo Kazu Yamada,* Ryohei Nemoto, Haruki Ishii, Fumi Nishino, Yu-Hsin Chang, Chi-Hsien Wang, Peter Krüger, Masaki Horie, “Designing 2D stripe winding network through crown-ether intermediate Ullmann coupling on Cu(111) surface”,

Nanoscale Horiz. 2024, DOI: 10.1039/d3nh00586k.

93. Atsunori Mori,* Aruto Maruka, Kohei Tabuchi, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, “Double winding vine-shaped biphenyl with molecular asymmetry. Synthesis, structure, and properties”,

Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2024, doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202400192.

92. Aika Kuwayama, Sonoka Yamamoto, Yuma Sakagami, Mizuho Yamagishi, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Masahiro Funahashi, Atsunori Mori,* “Synthesis and properties of polythiophenes bearing alkylsulfonic acid esters at the side chain”,

Polym. Chem., 2024, 15, 1635–1641.

91. Naoki Noda, Seiha Yamaoka, Ukyo Ogi, Masaki Horie, Kentaro Okano, and Atsunori Mori,* “Ni0(cod)(dq) (COD: 1,5-cycloctadiene; DQ: duroquinone) complex as a catalyst precursor for oligothiophene and polythiophene”,

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, 22, 2574–2579.

90. Toyo Kazu Yamada,* Ryohei Nemoto, Fumi Nishino, Takuya Hosokai, Chi-Hsien Wang, Masaki Horie, Yuri Hasegawa, Satoshi Kera, Peter Krüger, “On-Surface Growth of Transition-Metal Cobalt Nanoclusters Using 2D Crown-Ether Array”,

J. Mater. Chem. C 2024, 12, 874-883.

89. Chi-Hsien Wang, Yi-Chia Lin, Surojit Bhunia, Yuanning Feng, Pramita Kundu, Charlotte L. Stern, Pei-Lin Chen, J. Fraser Stoddart, Masaki Horie,* “Photosalience and Thermal Phase Transitions of Azobenzene- and Crown Ether-Based Complexes in Polymorphic Crystals”,

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 21378–21386.

88. Chi-Hsien Wang, Hong-Kai Chang, Kai-Jen Chen, Dao-Hong Huang, Chiung-Ju Chang, Kuan-Hung Huang, Yao-De Chiu, Masaki Horie,* “Facile photoresponsive actuators based on ferrocene-doped poly(butyl methacrylate)”,

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 38846–38856.

87. Kohei Hosokawa, Kohei Tabuchi, Yuki Nakanishi, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Atsunori Mori,* “Studies on the stereochemical behaviors of a winding vine-shaped molecular wire of a bithiophene dimer with molecular asymmetry”,

Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 2023, 8, 1252–1256.

86. Seiha Yamaoka, Hiroyuki Fukuoka, Naoki Noda, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Atsunori Mori,* “Nickel(II) Thiocyanate Complex as a Catalyst for Cross-Coupling Reactions”,

Synlett 2023, 34, 2401–2404.

85. Sonoka Yamamoto, Ryutaro Yamashita, Chihiro Kubota, Kentaro Okano, Masatoshi Kitamura, Masahiro Funahashi, Syu-Cheng Ye, Yung-Tin Pan, Masaki Horie, Takuji Shintani, Hironori Murata, Hideto Matsuyama, Atsunori Mori*, “Orthogonal electric and ionic conductivities in the thin film of a thiophene–thiophene block copolymer”,

J. Mater. Chem. C 2023, 11, 2484–2493.

84. Yuta Ihara, Hiroshi Yamagishi, Chen Lin, Cang-He Jhu, Meng-Che Tsai, Masaki Horie,* Yohei Yamamoto*, “Hydrothermal cross-linking of poly(fluorenylamine) with styryl side chains toward insoluble fluorescent micro-particles”,

Polym. J. 2023, 55, 547–553.

83. Atsunori Mori*, Tomoki Inoue, Aika Kuwayama, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, “Generation of sodium–thiophene species with metal amide-free approach toward polythiophene synthesis by cross-coupling polymerization”,

Asian J. Org. Chem. 2022, 11, e202200253.

82. Chihiro Kubota, Masaki Kashimoto, Ryutaro Yamashita, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Masahiro Funahashi, Takuya Matsumoto, Takashi Nishino, Atsunori Mori*, “Studies on the properties of poly(3-alkylthiophene) copolymerized by a small amount of thiophene derivative bearing a cyclic siloxane moiety at the side chain”,

Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2022, 95, 882–888.

81. Pin-Rong Wu, Chi-Hsien Wang, Yi-Wen Chen, Yen-Jen Lin, Tomohito Ide, Yoshitaka Tsuchido, Yoshihisa Sei, Masaki Horie*, “Cyclic and Linear Dithienyl-Anthryl Vinylenes: Synthesis, X-ray Crystallography, Spectroscopic Properties, and Photoinduced Mechanical Motions”,

J. Mater. Chem. C 2022, 10, 4306–4316.

80. Chi-Hsien Wang, Masaki Horie*, “Photo and thermal responsive pseudorotaxane crystals comprising ferrocene-containing ammonium salts and crown ethers”, A special issue dedicated to Sir Fraser Stoddart on the occasion of his 80th birthday,

Mater. Today Chem. 2022, 24, 100852.

79. Yuji Suzaki, Tomoko Abe, Asami Takei, Yugo Fukuchi, Take-aki Koizumi, Kohtaro Osakada*, Masaki Horie, “Ferrocene-containing Pseudorotaxanes in Crystals: Aromatic Interactions with Hammett Correlation”,

Molecules 2022, 27, 1745.

78. Mohamed Elsayed, Mohamed Abdellah, Jayachandran Jayakumar, Yi-Hao Hung, Li-Yu Ting, Ahmed M. Elewa, Chih-Li Chang, Wei-Cheng Lin, Kuo-Lung Wang, Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiez, Hsiao-Wen Hung, Masaki Horie, Ho-Hsiu Chou*, “Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Conjugated Polymer Dots as Binary Photocatalysts for Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Through Förster Resonance Energy Transfer”,

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 5655456565.

77. Tomoki Inoue, Sonoka Yamamoto, Yuma Sakagami, Masaki Horie, Kentaro Okano, Atsunori Mori*, “Cross-coupling polymerization of organosodium for polythiophene synthesis”,

Organometallics 2021, 40, 35063510.

76. Yen-Jen Lin, Masaki Horie*, “Dithienylethene-containing cyclic and linear conjugated molecules: synthesis, photochromism, and photoluminescence”,

Dyes Pigment. 2021, 195, 109700.

75. Chi-Hsien Wang, Kai-Jen Chen, Tsung-Huan Wu, Hung-Kai Chang, Yoshitaka Tsuchido, Yoshihisa Sei, Pei-Lin Chen, Masaki Horie*, “Ring rotation of ferrocene in interlocked molecules in single crystals”,

Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 38713875 (Selected as a front cover article).

74. Yuji Suzaki, Yugo Fukuchi, Hiroko Tadami, Take-aki Koizumi, Kohtaro Osakada,* Tomohito Ide, Masaki Horie, Norihisa Hoshino, Tomoyuki Akutagawa, “Further Investigations of Crystal-to-Crystal Phase Transition of a [2]Pseudorotaxane Composed of Ferrocene-terminated Dialkylammonium and Dibenzo[24]crown-8-ether”,

CrystEngComm 2021, 23, 5944-5952.

73. Masayasu Hayashi, Jiaqiang Cheng, Kohei Hosokawa, Takumi Hatta, Chi-Hsien Wang, Masaki Horie, Kentaro Okano, Atsunori Mori*, “Synthesis and racemization studies of winding vine-shaped biphenyl derivatives”,

Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2021, 34653471.

72. Sonoka Yamamoto, Yushin Shibuya, Toyoko Suzuki, Kentaro Okano, Masaki Horie, Atsunori Mori*, “One-shot Deprotonative Metalation/Transmetalation/Polymerization of Halothiophenes Catalyzed by Nickel Complex for Polythiophene Synthesis”,

Synthesis 2021, 53, 30813084.

71. Chihiro Kubota, Daisuke Morita, Keisuke Fujita, Sonoka Yamamoto, Toyoko Suzuki, Kentaro Okano, Masahiro Funahashi, Masaki Horie, Atsunori Mori*, “Thermally-Induced Doping of The Regioregular Polythiophene Bearing Alkylene Spacered Benzene Sulfonate Group at The Side Chain”,

Heterocycles 2021, 103, 249257.

70. Shao-Chi Cheng, Chi-Hsien Wang, Yi-Chia Lin, Yoshitaka Tsuchido, Yuji Suzaki, Ting-Shen Kuo, Yoshihisa Sei, Masaki Horie*, “Photoinduced Mechanical Motions of Pseudorotaxane Crystals Composed of Azobenzene and Ferrocenyl Groups on an Axle and a Crown Ether Ring”,

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 5000250010.

69. Kuo-Lung Wang, Jia-Cheng Jiang, Cang-He Jhu, Satoshi Wada, Takafumi Sassa*, Masaki Horie*, “High-performance organic photorefractive materials containing 2-ethylhexyl plasticized poly(triarylamine)”,

J. Mater. Chem. C 2020, 8, 1335713367.

68. Atsunori Mori,* Keisuke Fujita, Chihiro Kubota, Toyoko Suzuki, Kentaro Okano, Takuya Matsumoto, Takashi Nishino, Masaki Horie, “Formal preparation of regioregular and alternating thiophene–thiophene copolymers bearing different substituents”,

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 317324.

67. Atsunori Mori,* Chihiro Kubota, Keisuke Fujita, Masayasu Hayashi, Tadayuki Ogura, Toyoko Suzuki, Kentaro Okano, Masahiro Funahashi, Masaki Horie, “Thermally Induced Self-Doping of π-Conjugated Polymers Bearing a Pendant Neopentyl Sulfonate Group”,

Macromolecules 2020, 53, 11711179.

66. Atsunori Mori,* Masayasu Hayashi, Mitsuru Matsuoka, Shiomi Ashida, Yukiko Ito, Kohei Hosokawa, Toyoko Suzuki, Kentaro Okano, Chi-Hsien Wang, Masaki Horie, “Formation of Seven-membered-ring Fused Bithiophene Derivatives by Nosyl Annulation”,

Heterocycles 2020, 101, 461470.

65. Kuo-Lung Wang, Kuan-Ting Chen, Yuan-Hsing Yi, Yi-Hao Hung, Hsing-Yu Tuan*, Masaki Horie*, “High-Performance Lithium Ion Batteries Combining Submicron Silicon and Thiophene-Terephthalic Acid Conjugated Polymer Binders”,

ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2020, 8, 10431049.

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(Prior to joining the faculty of National Tsing Hua University)

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