Synthesis of Molybdenum Complexes Bearing Pyridine-Based PNP-Type Pincer Ligands with Pendent Pyridyl Unit and Their Catalytic Activity for Ammonia Formation Y. Yamazaki, K. Nakaya, and Y. Nishibayashi Organometallics, 00, 0000-0000 (2024).
Synthesis and Reactivity of Iron-Oxocyclohexadienyl Complexes toward Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer S. Kuriyama, Y. Zhang, H. Tanaka, A. Konomi, A. Egi, K. Yoshizawa, and Y. Nishibayashi Organometallics, 00, 0000-0000 (2024). [Highlighted at Cover Picture]
Catalytic Nitrogen Fixation Using Well-defined Molecular Catalysts under Ambient or Mild Reaction Conditions Y. Tanabe and Y. Nishibayashi Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 63, e202406404 (2024). [Open Access]
Computational Screening of PCP-Type Pincer Ligands for Mo-Catalyzed Nitrogen Fixation A. Egi, H. Tanaka, T. Nakamura, K. Arashiba, Y. Nishibayashi, and K. Yoshizawa Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 97, uoae041 (2024). [Open Access] [優秀論文: Editor's Choice] [Highlight at Inside Cover Picture]
Electrochemical Ammonia Oxidation Catalyzed by Ruthenium Complexes: Investigation of Substituent Effect of Axial Pyridine Ligands H. Toda, R. Kanega, T. Yano, T. Yoshikawa, S. Kuriyama, Y. Himeda, K. Sakata, and Y. Nishibayashi Chem. Lett., 53, upae040 (2024). [Open Access] [優秀論文: Editor's Choice] [Highlight at Inside Cover Picture]
Nitrogen Fixation Y. Tanabe, and Y. Nishibayashi Redox-based Catalytic Chemistry of Transition Metal Complexes, –Coordination Chemistry Discovery Series No. 2, 180-197; Chapter 11, Edited by T. Kojima, The Royal Society of Chemistry (2024).
Design, Synthesis and Reactivity of Dimolybdenum Complex Bearing Quaterphenylene-bridged Pyridine-Based PNP-type Pincer Ligand A. Eizawa, K. Arashiba, H. Tanaka, A. Konomi, K. Yoshizawa, and Y. Nishibayashi Dalton Transactions, 52, 14012-14016 (2023).
Catalytic Ammonia Oxidation Using Ammonia Solution under Electrochemical Conditions: Investigation on Axial Ligand of Ruthenium Catalysts H. Toda, K. Kuroki, R. Kanega, T. Yano, T. Yoshikawa, S. Kuriyama, Y. Himeda, K. Sakata, and Y. Nishibayashi Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 96, 980-988 (2023). [Open Access] [優秀論文:Selected Paper] [Highlight at Inside Cover Picture]
Catalytic Activity of Molybdenum Complexes Bearing PNP-Type Pincer Ligand toward Ammonia Formation T. Mitsumoto, Y. Ashida, K. Arashiba, S. Kuriyama, A. Egi, H. Tanaka, K. Yoshizawa, and Y. Nishibayashi Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 62, e202306631 (2023). [Open Access] [Highlight at Frontispiece]
Catalytic Production of Ammonia from Dinitrogen Employing Molybdenum Complexes Bearing N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Based PCP-Type Pincer Ligands Y. Ashida, T. Mizushima, K. Arashiba, A. Egi, H. Tanaka, K. Yoshizawa, and Y. Nishibayashi Nature Synthesis, 2, 635-644 (2023). [Open Access] [Highlighted at News & Views in Nature Synthesis] [ChemRxiv, preprint (2022)]
Interplay of Diruthenium Catalyst in Controlling Enantioselective Propargylic Substitution Reactions with Visible Light-generated Alkyl Radicals Y. Zhang, Y. Tanabe, S. Kuriyama, K. Sakata, and Y. Nishibayashi Nature Communications, 14, 859 (2023). [Open Access] [Highlighted at Nature Research Chemistry Community] [Research Square, preprint (2022)]
Coordination Structure of Samarium Diiodide in Tetrahydrofuran–Water Mixture A. Yamamoto, X. Liu, K. Arashiba, A. Konomi, H. Tanaka, K. Yoshizawa, Y. Nishibayashi, and H. Yoshida Inorg. Chem., 62, 5348-5356 (2023). [Highlight at Cover Picture]
Preparation and Reactivity of Rhenium–Nitride Complexes Bearing PNP-Type Pincer Ligands toward Nitrogen Fixation F. Meng, S. Kuriyama, A. Egi, H. Tanaka, K. Yoshizawa, and Y. Nishibayashi Organometallics (invitation for special issue “Early Transition Metals in Organometallic Chemistry"), 42, 1065-1076 (2023). [Highlighted at Cover Picture]
Direct Synthesis of Organonitrogen Compounds from Dinitrogen Using Transition Metal Complexes: Leap from Stoichiometric Reactions to Catalytic Reactions S. Suginome and Y. Nishibayashi ChemCatChem (Concept), 15, e202300850 (2023). [Open Access]
Effect of Propargylic Substituents on Enantioselectivity and Reactivity in Ruthenium-Catalyzed Propargylic Substitution Reactions: A DFT Study K. Sakata, Y. Uehara, S. Kohara,T. Yoshikawa, and Y. Nishibayashi ACS Omega, 7, 36634-36642 (2022). [Open Access]
Nitrogen Reduction by the Fe Sites of Synthetic [Mo3S4Fe] Cubes Y. Ohki, K. Munakata, R. Hara, M. Kachi, K. Uchida, M. Tada, R. E. Cramer, W. M. C. Sameera, T. Takayama, Y. Sakai, S. Kuriyama, Y. Nishibayashi, and K. Tanifuji Nature, 607, 86-90 (2022). [Highlighted at News & Views in Nature][Open Access]
Synthesis and Reactivity of Manganese Complexes Bearing Anionic PNP- and PCP-type Pincer Ligands toward Nitrogen Fixation S. Kuriyama, S. Wei, T. Kato, and Y. Nishibayashi Molecules (invitation for special issue), 27, 2373 (2022). [Open Access]
Synthesis and Reactivity of Cobalt-Dinitrogen Complexes Bearing Anionic PCP-type Pincer Ligands toward Catalytic Silylamine Formation from Dinitrogen S. Kuriyama, S. Wei, H. Tanaka, A. Konomi, K. Yoshizawa, and Y. Nishibayashi Inorg. Chem., 61, 5190-5195 (2022). [Highlighted at Cover Picture]
Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia and Hydrazine Using Iron–Dinitrogen Complexes Bearing Anionic Benzene-Based PCP-type Pincer Ligands S. Kuriyama, T. Kato, H. Tanaka, A. Konomi, K. Yoshizawa, and Y. Nishibayashi Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 95, 683-692 (2022). [BCSJ Award Article] [Highlighted at Cover Picture] [Open Access] [ChemRxiv, preprint (2021)]
Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen into Ammonia and Hydrazine Using Chromium Complexes Bearing PCP-Type Pincer Ligand Y. Ashida, A. Egi, K. Arashiba, H. Tanaka, T. Mitsumoto, S. Kuriyama, K. Yoshizawa, and Y. Nishibayashi Chem. Eur. J., 28, e202200557 (2022). [Highlighted at Cover Picture] [ChemRxiv, preprint (2021)]
Reactivity of Molybdenum–Nitride Complex Bearing Pyridine-Based PNP-Type Pincer Ligand toward Carbon-Centered Electrophiles T. Itabashi, K. Arashiba, S. Kuriyama, and Y. Nishibayashi Dalton Transactions, 51, 1946-1954 (2022).
Hydroboration and Hydrosilylation of Molybdenum–Nitride Complex Bearing PNP-type Pincer Ligand T. Itabashi, K. Arashiba, H. Tanaka, K. Yoshizawa, and Y. Nishibayashi Organometallics, 41, 366-373 (2022). [Highlighted at Cover Picture]
Enantioselectivity in Ruthenium-Catalyzed Propargylic Substitution Reactions of Propargylic Alcohols with Acetone: A DFT Study K. Sakata, Y. Goto, T. Yoshikawa, and Y. Nishibayashi Chem. Asian J., 16, 3760-3766 (2021).
Manganese-Catalyzed Ammonia Oxidation into Dinitrogen H. Toda, K. Kuroki, R. Kanega, S. Kuriyama, K. Nakajima, Y. Himeda, K. Sakata, and Y. Nishibayashi ChemPlusChem, 86, 1511-1516 (2021). [Highlighted at Cover Picture] [one of the most downloaded during its first 12 months of publication in ChemPlusChem] [ChemRxiv, preprint (2020)]
Cooperative Photoredox- and Nickel-Catalyzed Alkylative Cyclization Reactions of Alkynes with 4-Alkyl-1,4-dihydropyridines Y. Zhang, Y. Tanabe, S. Kuriyama, and Y. Nishibayashi J. Org. Chem., 86, 12577-12590 (2021). [Highlighted at Cover Picture]
Ammonia Formation Catalyzed by Dinitrogen-Bridged Dirhenium Complex Bearing PNP-Pincer Ligands under Mild Reaction Conditions F. Meng, S. Kuriyama, H. Tanaka, A. Egi, K. Yoshizawa, and Y. Nishibayashi Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 13906-13912 (2021). [ChemRxiv, preprint (2020)]
Catalytic Ammonia Formation with Electrochemically Reduced Samarium Diiodide from Samarium Triiodide and Water from Dinitrogen K. Arashiba, R. Kanega, Y. Himeda, and Y. Nishibayashi Chem. Lett., 50, 1356-1358 (2021). [Open Access]
Synthesis and Characterization of Rhodium Complex Bearing Anionic CNC-Type Pincer Ligand with Pyrrolide and Imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine-3-ylidene Moieties S. Kuriyama, W. Zhao, and Y. Nishibayashi Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. (invitation for special issue), 647, 1408-1414 (2021).
Ruthenium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Propargylic Phosphinylation of Propargylic Alcohols with Phosphine Oxides S. Liu, Y. Tanabe, S. Kuriyama, K. Sakata, and Y. Nishibayashi Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 11231-11236 (2021).
Comprehensive Insights into Synthetic Nitrogen Fixation Assisted by Molecular Catalysts under Ambient or Mild Conditions Y. Tanabe and Y. Nishibayashi Chem. Soc. Rev., 50, 5201-5242 (2021).
Development of Catalytic Nitrogen Fixation Using Transition Metal Complexes Not Relevant to Nitrogenase S. Kuriyama and Y. Nishibayashi Tetrahedron (Tetrahedron Report), 83, 131986 (2021).