Dr. Midori Akiyama, List of Publications

Original Articles

1. Incorporation of selenophene into thienoazacoronene-based non-fullerene acceptor: Impact on photophysical and photovoltaic properties
   Kubota, M.; Umeyama, T.*; Suzuki, W.; Koganezawa, T.; Akiyama, M.; Imahori, H.*
   Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2025, uoae147.
2. The Tetrafluoroethylene-Mediated Ring-Closing Metathesis: Enabling Unfavored Reactions
   Akiyama, M.*; Amabe, Y.; Sugiyama, M.; Sugiyama, K.; Gatzenmeier, T.; Okazoe, T.
   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024,146, 32550–32557.
3. Exceptionally Short Tetracoordinated CarbonHalogen Bonds in Hexafluorodihalocubanes
   Sugiyama, M.;  Uetake, Y.*; Miyagi, N.; Yoshida, M.; Nozaki, K.; Okazoe, T.; Akiyama, M.*
   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 30686–30697. Highlighted in ChemistryViews
4. Highly Alternating Copolymer of [1.1.1]Propellane and Perfluoro Vinyl Ether : Forming Hydrophobic and Oleophobic Surface with < 50% Fluorine Monomer Content
   Okuda, M.; Akiyama, M.*; Funahashi, K.; Masuda, J.; Kohata, A.; Nakagawa, S.; Kashiwagi, K.; Sugiyama, N.; Okazoe, T.; Kawaguchi, D.*
   ACS Macro Lett. 2024, 13, 1383–1389. Featured as an ACS Editors’ Choice.
5. Perfluoroadamantyl Group: Bulky and Highly Electron-Withdrawing Substituent in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials
   Akiyama, M.*; Yasuda, Y.; Kisoi, D.; Kusakabe, Y.; Kaji, H.*; Imahori, H.*
   Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2024, 97, uoae025.
6. The Fluorocarbene Exploit: Enforcing Alternation in Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
   Tashiro, K.; Akiyama, M.*; Kashiwagi, K.; Okazoe, T.
   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 2941–2950.
7. Electron in a cube: Synthesis and characterization of perfluorocubane as an electron acceptor
   Sugiyama, M.; Akiyama, M.*; Yonezawa, Y.; Komaguchi, K.; Higashi, M.; Nozaki, K.; Okazoe, T.
   Science 2022, 377, 756–759.
   Press release, Highligted in Synform, Synfacts, C&EN, MarketScreener, Tech+, Chem-Station
8. Synthesis of Crystalline CF3-Rich Perfluoropolyethers from Hexafluoropropylene Oxide and (Trifluoromethyl)trimethylsilane
   Koyama, M.; Akiyama, M.*; Kashiwagi, K.; Nozaki, K.; Okazoe, T.
   Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2022, 2200038.
9. Highly Active Cross Metathesis of Tetrafluoroethylene with a Seven-membered NHC-Ruthenium Catalyst
   Mori, K.; Akiyama, M.*; Inada, K.; Imamura, Y.; Ishibashi, Y.; Takahira, Y.; Nozaki, K.*; Okazoe, T.
   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 20980–20987.
10. Synthesis of Fluorinated Dialkyl Carbonates from Carbon Dioxide as a Carbonyl Source
    Sugiyama, M.; Akiyama, M.; Nishiyama, K.; Okazoe, T.; Nozaki, K.*
    ChemSusChem 2020, 13, 1775–1784.
11. Phosphorescence Resulting from Interaction between Two Non-equivalent Metals on a Helical π-Conjugated Surface
    Akiyama, M.; Tsuchiya, Y.; Ishii, A.; Hasegawa, M.; Kurashige, Y.; Nozaki, K.*
    Chem. Asian. J. 2018, 13, 1902–1905.
12. Visible-Light-Activated Catalytic Enantioselective β-Alkylation of α,β-Unsaturated 2-Acyl Imidazoles Using Hantzsch Esters as Radical Reservoirs
    de Assis, F. F.; Huang, X.; Akiyama, M.; Pilli, R. A.; Meggers, E.*
    J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 10922–10932.
13. Synthesis of Optically Pure Helicene Metallocenes
    Akiyama, M.; Nozaki, K.*
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 2040–2044.
14. Synthesis and Properties of [7]Helicene-like Compounds Fused with a Fluorene Unit
    Oyama, H.; Akiyama, M.; Nakano, K.; Naito, M.; Nobusawa, K.; Nozaki, K.*
    Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 3654–3657.
15. Peptide-Catalyzed Desymmetrization of an Achiral Ferrocenyl Compound To Induce Planar Chirality
    Akagawa, K.; Akiyama, M.; Kudo, K.*
    Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 18, 3894–3898. Highlighted in Cheminform
16. Peptide-Catalyzed Kinetic Resolution of Planar-Chiral Metallocenes
    Akiyama, M.; Akagawa, K.; Seino, H.; Kudo, K.*
    Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 7893–7896.
17. Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of C–C Single Bonds Adjacent to Functional Groups by Metal-Ligand Cooperation
    Kusumoto, S.; Akiyama, M.; Nozaki, K.*
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 18726–18729.

Reviews

1. Photoinduced charge separation at heterojunctions between two-dimensional layered materials and small organic molecules
   Imahori, H.*; Akiyama, M.
   Mater. Horiz. 2025, 12, 92–102.
2. Molecular donor–acceptor linked systems as models for examining their interactions in excited states
   Imahori, H.*; Akiyama, M.*
   J. Chem. Phys. 2024, 161, 080901.
3. Porphyrins as a key component for photoinduced charge separation, solar cells, and optogenetics
   Imahori, H.*; Akiyama, M.
   J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2024, 28, 319–337.
4. Higher-Order Π-Electron Systems Based on Helicene Molecules
   Akiyama, M.; Nakano, K.; Nozaki, K.
   Chemical Science of Π-Electron Systems, Akasaka, T., Osuka, A., Fukuzumi, S., Kandori, H., Aso, Y. (Eds.), Springer, 2015, 37–46.

Awards

January 2016 : The 2nd BASF Rising Star Award for PhD students
March 2016 : Student Presentation Award, The 96th CSJ Annual meeting
September 2016 : Student Presentation Award, The 66th Conference of Japan Society of Coordination chemistry
October 2016 : Otsu Academy Fellow
November 2016 : Poster Award, The 6th CSJ Chemistry Festa
September 2017 : the L’Oréal-UNESCO for women in science Japan fellowships 2017
November 2021 : Presentation Award, The 44th Fluorine Conference of Japan
January 2023：Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
March 2023 : The17th PCCP Prize 
March 2024：Young Scholar Lecture, The 104th CSJ Annual Meeting

Officers

Organic Chemistry Frontiers, Early Career Advisory Board, 2024~
Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, Early Career Advisory Board, 2024~