Selected Publications

Azulene End-Capped 1,3,4-Thiadiazole as an n-Type Organic Semiconductor with a Herringbone–Brickwork Cooperative 2D Layered Structure
Yusuke Shibuya, Amane Matsunaga, Daisuke Kumaki, Shizuo Tokito, Hiroshi Katagiri*
Crystal Growth & Design, 2022, 22, 6554–6563. [detail]
[Selected as Supplementary Cover] [detail]

BMeS-p-A Succinimidyl Ester as a Sulfonyl Aniline Dye Labeling Reagent
Taiki Mochizuki, Nanami Hoshino, Aki Sato, Teruo Beppu, Hiroshi Katagiri*
Tetrahedron Letters, 2022, 90, 153625. [detail]

Molecular Structure-Property Relationships of the Asymmetric Thienoacenes: Naphtho[2,3-b]thieno[2,3-d]thiophene, Anthra[2,3-b]thieno[2,3-d]thiophene, and their Thienyl Derivatives
Amane Matsunaga, Yuta Ogawa, Shigeki Tamura, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Hiroshi Katagiri*
ChemistrySelect, 2021, 6, 4506–4510. [detail]
[Top Downloaded Paper 2021] [detail]

Control of Molecular Orientation in Organic Semiconductors Using Weak Iodine–Iodine Interactions 
Amane Matsunaga, Yuta Ogawa, Daisuke Kumaki, Shizuo Tokito, Hiroshi Katagiri*
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021, 12, 111–116. [detail]

Columnar Stacking of Partially Fluorinated [4] Helicenes: C–H··· F Interactions Change the Stacking Orientation
Risa Suzuki, Yuto Uziie, Wataru Fujiwara, Hiroshi Katagiri*, Takashi Murase*
Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2020, 15, 1330–1338. [detail]

Linear Biazulene Isomers: Effects of Molecular and Packing Structure on Optoelectronic and Charge-Transport Properties
Yusuke Shibuya, Kazuhiro Aonuma, Tomohiro Kimura, Takuro Kaneko, Wataru Fujiwara, Yuji Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kumaki, Shizuo Tokito, Hiroshi Katagiri*
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020, 124, 4738–4746. [detail]
[Selected as Supplementary Cover] [detail]

Tuning the Optical Properties of Sulfonylaniline Derivatives: Degeneracy Breaking of Benzene Orbitals and Linkage through Nodal Planes
Shoh Kudo, Nanami Hoshino, Teruo Beppu, Hiroshi Katagiri*
ChemPhysChem, 2019, 20, 1581–1589. [detail]
[Selected as Inside Front Cover] [detail]
[Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019] [detail]

Cyclic arylopeptoid oligomers: synthesis and conformational propensities of peptide-mimetic aromatic macrocycles
Masahide Hayakawa, Ayaka Ohsawa, Kumi Takeda, Ryo Torii, Yoshiaki Kitamura, Hiroshi Katagiri*, Masato Ikeda*
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2018, 16, 8505–8512. [detail]

アズレンを基盤とする有機半導体材料の創出
山口 裕二, 片桐 洋史*
有機合成化学協会誌, 2018, 76, 820–827. [detail]
Azulene-based Semiconductor Materials

Asymmetric Alkylthienyl Thienoacenes Derived from Anthra[2,3-b]thieno[2,3-d]thiophene for Solution-Processable Organic Semiconductors

Synthesis, crystal structure, and FET characteristics of thieno[2,3-b]thiophene-based bent-thienoacenes

Terazulene Isomers: Polarity Change of OFETs Through Molecular Orbital Distribution Contrast

Single Benzene Green Fluorophore: Solid-State Emissive, Water-Soluble, and Solvent- and pH-Independent Fluorescence with Large Stokes Shifts

Determination of the absolute configuration and identity of chiral carboxylic acids using a Cu(II) complex of pyridine–benzimidazole-based ligand

2,6-Bis(arylsulfonyl)anilines as Fluorescent Scaffolds through Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds: Solid-State Fluorescence Materials and Turn-On-Type Probes Based on Aggregation-Induced Emission

Terazulene: A High-Performance n-Type Organic Field-Effect Transistor Based on Molecular Orbital Distribution Control

Synthesis, Properties, and OFET Characteristics of 5,5′-Di(2-azulenyl)-2,2′-bithiophene (DAzBT) and 2,5-Di(2-azulenyl)-thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (DAzTT)

Synthesis and properties of naphthobisbenzo[b]thiophenes: structural curvature of higher acene frameworks for solubility enhancement and high-order orientation in crystalline states