"Supramolecular copolymerization of hydrophobic and hydrophilic monomers in liquid crystalline media."
Daiki Morishita, Yoshimitsu Itoh*, Ko Furukawa, Noriyoshi Arai, Xu-Jie Zhang, and Takuzo Aida* Chem. Sci.2024. 15, 4068-4074. [DOI:10.1039/d3sc06341k]
"Development of electroresponsive functional soft materials by electroresponsive dopants."
Yoshimitsu Itoh*, Daiki Morishita Polym. J.2023. 55, 1035-1048. [DOI:10.1038/s41428-023-00805-5]
*Account article for SPSJ Hitachi Chemical Award
"Pathway Complexity in Nanotubular Supramolecular Polymerization: Metal–Organic Nanotubes with a Planar-Chiral Monomer."
Yingluo Zhao, Hiroko Kawano, Hiroshi Yamagishi*, Saya Otake, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Hubiao Huang, E. W. Meijer, and Takuzo Aida* J. Am. Chem. Soc.2023. 145, 13920-13928. [DOI:10.1021/jacs.3c03385]
"Simulating Assembly Landscapes for Comprehensive Understanding of Supramolecular Polymer–Solvent Systems."
Stef A. H. Jansen, Elisabeth Weyandt, Tsubasa Aoki, Takayoshi Akiyama, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Ghislaine Vantomme, Takuzo Aida*, E. W. Meijer* J. Am. Chem. Soc.2023. 145, 4231-4237. [DOI:10.1021/jacs.2c12941]
"Blending to Make Nonhealable Polymers Healable: Nanophase Separation Observed by CP/MAS 13C NMR Analysis."
Yuta Fujisawa, Yiling Nan, Atsushi Asano, Yu Yanagisawa, Keiichi Yano, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Takuzo Aida* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2022, 62, e202214444. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202214444]
"Supramolecular Polymerization of a Photo-Fluttering Chiral Monomer: A Temporarily Suspendable Chain Growth by Light."
Tsubasa Aoki, Michihisa Ueda, Takuzo Aida,* Yoshimitsu Itoh* J. Am. Chem. Soc.2022, 144, 7080-7084. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c02176]
"Anomalous Chiral Transfer: Supramolecular Polymerization in a Chiral Medium of a Mesogenic Molecule."
Xu-Jie Zhang, Daiki Morishita, Tsubasa Aoki, Yoshimitsu Itoh,* Keiichi Yano, Fumito Araoka, Takuzo Aida* Chem. Asian J.2022, e202200223. [DOI: 10.1002/asia.202200223]
"Ultrafast Water Permeation through Nanochannels with a Densely Fluorous Interior Surface."
Yoshimitsu Itoh,* Shuo Chen,# Ryota Hirahara,# Takeshi Konda,# Tsubasa Aoki, Takumi Ueda, Ichio Shimada, James J. Cannon, Cheng Shao, Junichiro Shiomi, Kazuhito V. Tabata, Hiroyuki Noji, Kohei Sato,* Takuzo Aida*
Science2022, 376, 738–743. (#: Equal Contribution) [10.1126/science.abd0966]
"Mechanically Robust, Self-Healable Polymers Usable under High Humidity: Humidity-Tolerant Noncovalent Cross-Linking Strategy."
Yuta Fujisawa, Atsushi Asano, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Takuzo Aida* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 15279–15285. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c06494]
"An Electrochemical Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Device for Quick and Low-Voltage Color Modulation." Shoichi Tokunaga, Mengyan Zeng, Yoshimitsu Itoh,* Fumito Araoka, and Takuzo Aida* J. Vis. Exp. 2019, 144, e59244. [DOI: 10.3791/59244]
"Columnar Liquid Crystalline Assembly of a U-Shaped Molecular Scaffold Stabilized by Covalent or Noncovalent Incorporation of Aromatic Molecules." Yoshiki Shibuya, Yoshimitsu Itoh,* and Takuzo Aida* J. Polym. Sci. A, Polym. Chem. 2019, 57, 342–351. [DOI: 10.1002/pola.29186]
"Redox-Responsive Chiral Dopant for Quick Electrochemical Color Modulation of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal." Shoichi Tokunaga, Yoshimitsu Itoh,* Hiroyuki Tanaka, Fumito Araoka, and Takuzo Aida* J. Am. Chem. Soc.2018, 140, 10946–10949. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b06323]
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"Enhancement of Superconducting Transition Temperature in FeSe Electric-Double-Layer Transistor with Multivalent Ionic Liquids." Tomoki Miyakawa, Junichi Shiogai,* Sunao Shimizu, Michio Matsumoto, Yukihiro Ito, Takayuki Harada, Kohei Fujiwara, Tsutomu Nojima, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Takuzo Aida, Yoshihiro Iwasa, and Atsushi Tsukazaki Phys. Rev. Mater. 2018, 2, 031801. [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.031801]
"Exceptionally High Electric Double Layer Capacitances of Oligomeric Ionic Liquids." Michio Matsumoto, Sunao Shimizu, Rina Sotoike, Masayoshi Watanabe, Yoshihiro Iwasa,* Yoshimitsu Itoh, and Takuzo Aida* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 8784–8787. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b09156]
"Water Dynamics: Gliding and Trudging." Yoshimitsu Itoh* and Takuzo Aida* Nature Chem. 2017, 9, 934–936. [DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2870]
"Energetics of Baird Aromaticity Supported by Inversion of Photoexcited Chiral [4n]Annulene Derivatives." Michihisa Ueda, Kjell Jorner, Young Mo Sung, Tadashi Mori, Qi Xiao, Dongho Kim,* Henrik Ottosson,* Takuzo Aida,* and Yoshimitsu Itoh* Nature Commun. 2017, 8, 346. [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00382-1]
"Jumping Crystals of Pyrene Tweezers: Crystal-to-Crystal Transition Involving π/π-to-CH/π Assembly Mode Switching." Yoshiki Shibuya, Yoshimitsu Itoh,* and Takuzo Aida* Chem. Asian J. 2017, 12, 811–815. [DOI: 10.1002/asia.201700083]
"Electrophoretic Deposition for Cholesteric Liquid-Crystalline Devices with Memory and Modulation of Reflection Colors." Shoichi Tokunaga, Yoshimitsu Itoh,* Yuya Yaguchi, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Fumito Araoka, Hideo Takezoe, Takuzo Aida* Adv. Mater. 2016, 28, 4077–4083. [DOI: 10.1002/adma.201600258]
"A Rational Strategy for the Realization of Chain-Growth Supramolecular Polymerization." Jiheong Kang, Daigo Miyajima,* Tadashi Mori, Yoshihisa Inoue, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Takuzo Aida* Science 2015, 347, 646–651. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4249]
"A practical synthesis of enantiopure 4,4,4-trifluoro-allo-threonine from an easily available fluorinated building block." Joonil Cho, Siho Irie, Nobutaka Iwahashi, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Kazuhiko Saigo, Yasuhiro Ishida* Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 56, 127–131. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2014.11.041]
"C5-Symmetric Chiral Corannulenes: Desymmetrization of Bowl Inversion Equilibrium via “Intramolecular” Hydrogen-Bonding Network." Jiheong Kang, Daigo Miyajima,* Yoshimitsu Itoh, Tadashi Mori, Hiroki Tanaka, Masahito Yamauchi, Yoshihisa Inoue, Soichiro Harada, and Takuzo Aida* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 10640–10644. [DOI: 10.1021/ja505941b]
"No Catalyst, Radical Initiator, and Photochemical Irradiation Approach to Direct α-Trifluoromethylation of Lithium Enolates." Yuichi Tomita, Toshiaki Iida, Ryota Hashimoto, Yoshimitsu Itoh, and Koichi Mikami* Heterocycles 2014, 88, 961–968. [DOI: 10.3987/COM-13-S(S)95]
"Cu-Catalyzed Trifluoromethylation of Aryl Iodides with Trifluoromethylzinc Reagent Prepared in situ from Trifluoromethyl Iodide." Yuzo Nakamura, Motohiro Fujiu, Tatsuya Murase, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Hiroki Serizawa, Kohsuke Aikawa, Koichi Mikami* Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2404–2409. [DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.9.277]
"Theoretical Study on the Regioselectivity of Baeyer–Villiger Reaction of α-Me-, -F-, -CF3-Cyclohexanones." Yoshimitsu Itoh, Masahiro Yamanaka, Koichi Mikami* J.Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 146–153. [DOI: 10.1021/jo302151r]
"Columnarly Assembled Liquid Crystalline Peptidic Macrocycles Unidirectionally Orientable over a Large Area by Electric Field." K. Sato, Y. Itoh,* T. Aida* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 13767–13769. [DOI: 10.1021/ja203894r]
"Simple Formation of C60 and C60-Ferrocene Conjugated Monolayers Anchored onto Silicon Oxide with Five Carboxylic Acids and Their Transistor Applications." Yoshimitsu Itoh,* B. Kim, R. I. Gearba, N. J. Tremblay, R. Pindak, Y. Matsuo, E. Nakamura, C. Nuckolls Chem. Mater. 2011, 23, 970–975. [DOI: 10.1021/cm1025975]
"Highly enantioselective synthesis of α-(perfluoroalkyl)amines via hydrogenation of enamide precursors in the presence of chiraphos-rhodium catalyst." Koichi Mikami,* Tatsushi Murase, Lili Zhai, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Shigekazu Ito Tetrahedron Asymmetry 2010, 21, 1158–1161. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetasy.2010.05.021]
"Activation of C-F Bonds in Preference to C-I Bonds: Difluoromethylation of Lithium Enolates with Trifluoromethyl Iodide." Koichi Mikami,* Yuichi Tomita, Yoshimitsu Itoh Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 3819–3822. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201000435]
"Photovoltaic Universal Joints: Ball-and-Socket Interfaces in Molecular Photovoltaic Cells." Noah J. Tremblay, Alon A. Gorodetsky, Marshall P. Cox, Theanne Schiros, Bumjung Kim, Rachel Steiner, Zachary Bullard, Aaron Sattler, Woo-Young So, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Michael F. Toney, Hirohito Ogasawara, Arthur P. Ramirez, Ioannis Kymissis,* Michael L. Steigerwald, Colin Nuckolls* ChemPhysChem 2010, 11, 799–803. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200900941]
"Sequential Perfluoroalkylation and Asymmetric Reduction of Nitriles Triggered with Perfluoroalkyl Titanates: Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Perfluoroalkyl Amines." Koichi Mikami,* Tatsushi Murase, Lili Zhai, Susumu Kawauchi, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Shigekazu Ito Tetrahedron Lett 2010, 51, 1371–1373. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2009.12.140]
"Efficient Formation of Ring Structures Utilizing Multisite Activation by Indium Catalysis." Yoshimitsu Itoh, Hayato Tsuji, Ken-ichi Yamagata, Kohei Endo, Iku Tanaka, Masaharu Nakamura, Eiichi Nakamura* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 17161–17167. [DOI: 10.1021/ja805657h]
"Dialkylzinc-accelerated α-Trifluoromethylation of Carbonyl Compounds Catalyzed by Late-transition-metal Complexes." Yuichi Tomita, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Koichi Mikami* Chem. Lett. 2008, 37, 1080–1081. [DOI:10.1246/cl.2008.1080]
"Modular Synthesis of Benzo[b]phosphole Derivatives via BuLi-Mediated Cyclization of (o-Alkynylphenyl)phosphine." Hayato Tsuji,* Kosuke Sato, Laurean Ilies, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Yoshiharu Sato, and Eiichi Nakamura* Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 2263–2265. [DOI: 10.1021/ol800684x]
"Indium-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization of ω-Alkynyl-β-ketoesters into Six- to Fifteen-Membered Rings." Hayato Tsuji, Ken-ichi Yamagata, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Kohei Endo, Masaharu Nakamura, and Eiichi Nakamura* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 8060–8062. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.200702928]
"Tandem Reductive Perfluoroalkylation of Esters with Perfluoroalkyl Titanate-Type Reagents." Koichi Mikami,* Tatsushi Murase, Yoshimitsu Itoh J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 11686–11687. [DOI: 10.1021/ja074642z]
"Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis and Anticancer Effects of the Novel Non-Calcemic Analog of Vitamin D, 2α-Fluoro-19-nor-22-oxa-1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in Metastatic Lung Carcinoma." Kimie Nakagawa, Toshio Okano, Keiichi Ozono, Shigeaki Kato, Noboru Kubodera, Shiho Ohba, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Koichi Mikami* J. Fluorine Chem. 2007, 128, 654–667. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluchem.2007.03.002]
"Trifluoromethylation of Metal Enolates and Theoretical Guideline." Koichi Mikami,* Yoshimitsu Itoh
In Current Fluoroorganic Chemistry. New Synthetic Directions, Technologies, Materials and Biological Applications V. A. Soloshonok, K. Mikami, T. Yamazaki, J. T. Welch, J. Honec, Eds.; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2007; p 2–24.
"Radical Trifluoromethylation of Ketone Silyl Enol Ethers by Activation with Dialkylzinc." Kochi Mikami,* Yuichi Tomita, Yoshiyuki Ichikawa, Kazutoshi Amikura, Yoshimitsu Itoh Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 4671–4673. [DOI: 10.1021/ol0611301]
"Experimental and Theoretical Studies on Radical Trifluoromethylation of Titanium Ate and Lithium Enolates." Yoshimitsu Itoh, K. N. Houk, Koichi Mikami* J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 8918–8925. [DOI: 10.1021/jo0616153]
"Radical Trifluoromethylation of Ketone Li Enolates." Yoshimitsu Itoh, Koichi Mikami* Tetrahedron 2006, 62, 7199–7203. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2006.03.115]
"Nanoflow Microreactor for Dramatic Increase not only in Reactivity but also in Selectivity: Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation by Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide using Lowest Concentration of a Fluorous Lanthanide Catalyst." Koichi Mikami,* Masahiro Yamanaka, Md. Nazrul Islam, Takayuki Tonoi, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Masaki Shinoda, Kenichi Kudo J. Fluorine Chem. 2006, 127, 592–596. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluchem.2006.03.012]
"Radical Trifluoromethylation of Ti Ate Enolate: Possible Intervention of Transformation of Ti(IV) to Ti(III) for Radical Termination." Yoshimitsu Itoh, Koichi Mikami* J. Fluorine Chem. 2006, 127, 539–544. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluchem.2006.03.011]
"Metal Enolates of α-CF3 Ketones: Theoretical Guideline, Direct Generation, and Synthetic Use." Koichi Mikami,* Yoshimitsu Itoh Chem. Rec. 2006, 6, 1–11. [DOI: 10.1002/tcr.20066]
"Radical Trifluoromethylation of Titanium Ate Enolate." Yoshimitsu Itoh, Koichi Mikami* Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 649–651. [DOI: 10.1021/ol047565a]
"Fluorinated Synthon: Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions." Koichi Mikami,* Yoshimitsu Itoh, Masahiro Yamanaka In Fluorine-Containing Synthons; V. A. Soloshonok Ed.; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2005; p 356–367.
"Direct Generation of Ti-Enolate of α-CF3 Ketone: Theoretical Study and High-Yielding and Diastereoselective Aldol Reaction." Y. Itoh, M. Yamanaka, K. Mikami* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 13174–13175. [DOI: 10.1021/ja046518a]
"Hybrid Reagent of Ammonium Hydrogen Fluoride and Scandium Triflate: Highly Efficient Catalyst for Ring-Opening Fluorination of 2,3-Epoxyalcohols." Yoshimitsu Itoh, Sejin Jang, Shiho Ohba, Koichi Mikami* Chem. Lett. 2004, 33, 776–777. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.2004.776]
"Nanoflow System for Perfect Regiocontrol in the Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation by Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide using Lowest Concentration of a Fluorous Lanthanide Catalyst" Koichi Mikami,* Md. Nazrul Islam, Masahiro Yamanaka, Yoshimitsu Itoh, Masaki Shinoda, Kenichi Kudo Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 3681–3683. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2004.02.157]
"Fluorinated Carbonyl and Olefinic Compounds: Basic Character and Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions." Koichi Mikami,* Yoshimitsu Itoh, Masahiro Yamanaka Chem. Rev. 2004, 104, 1–16. [DOI: 10.1021/cr030685w]
"Dipole Interaction-Controlled Stereoselectivity in Aldol Reaction of α-CF3 Enolate with Fluoral." Yoshimitsu Itoh, Masahiro Yamanaka, Koichi Mikami* Org. Lett.2003, 5, 4807–4809. [DOI: 10.1021/ol0358307]
"Complete Reversal in Regioselectivity in the Baeyer-Villiger Reaction of an α-CF3-Ketone and Theoretical Rationale for Axial Orientation of Sterically Demanding CF3 group at the Transition State." Yoshimitsu Itoh, Masahiro Yamanaka, Koichi Mikami* Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 4803–4806. [DOI: 10.1021/ol0358298]
"Organic Fluorine Compounds with Full of Character: Their (Catalytic) Asymmetric Synthesis (2)." Koichi Mikami,* Yoshimitsu Itoh, Masahiro Yamanaka Fine Chemical 2003, 32 (2), 11–20.
"Organic Fluorine Compounds with Full of Character: Their (Catalytic) Asymmetric Synthesis (1)." Koichi. Mikami,* Yoshimitsu Itoh, Masahiro Yamanaka Fine Chemical2003, 32 (1), 35–50.
