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# 2015.5.2 (Sat)

We will held an alumni reunion of Mizuno and Ikeda laboratory on April 30, 2016 (Sat). We'll be waiting for your attendance.

# 2015.5.2 (Sat)

We held an alumni reunion of Mizuno and Ikeda laboratory on May 2, 2015 (Sat).

# 2014.4.26 (Sat)

We held an alumni reunion of Mizuno and Ikeda laboratory on April 26, 2014 (Sat).

# 2013.4.27 (Sat)

We held an alumni reunion of Mizuno and Ikeda laboratory on April 27, 2013 (Sat). For additional information, please visit here.

# 2012.9.29 (Sat)

We took the second place in the interlaboratory softball competition "Ohka-cup"!

# 2012.4.28 (Sat)

"Celebration in Honor of Prof. Kazuhiko MIZUNO's Retirement" has been held at Hotel Hankyu International. For additional information, please visit here.

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2022.3.15.

Mr. Takumi Takahashi (M2) recieved the President Award from OPU.

2022.1.10.

A collaborative paper with Prof. Onda, Dr. Miyata (Kyushu Univ.), and Prof. Naito (Osaka Pref. Univ.) has been published in J. Mater. Chem. C.
Aggregation-induced Emission Active Thermally-activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials Possessing N-Heterocycle and Sulfonyl Groups
This paper is a part of the themed collection in J. Mater. Chem. C: Materials for thermally activated delayed fluorescence and/or triplet fusion upconversion.

2021.12.2.

Mr. Takumi Takahashi (M1) won Presentation Award at the 40th Annual Meeting on Solid and Surface Photochemistry.
"Upconversion Utilizing Energy Harvesting and Intramolecular TTA in the Thin-film and Gel"
https://pcat.cat.hokudai.ac.jp/sspc/

2021.12.2.

Mr. Tomoki Nagaoka won Poster Award at the the 11th CSJ Chemistry Festa 2021.
"Development of Singlet Fission Materials Possessing High Excited Triplet Energy Level Based on Pentalenedione Derivatives"
https://www.csj.jp/festa/2021/document/award.pdf

2021.11.15.

Three students were awarded the 23rd online meeting of the research institute for molecular electronic devices at OPU ．

Presentation Award
Mr. Takumi Takahashi (M2)

Poster Award
Mr. Tomoki Nagaoka (M1)
Mr. Haruki Okamoto (M1)
http://rimed.21c.osakafu-u.ac.jp/fifth-period/

2021.9.23.

Mr. Shun Irii won Poster Award the 31st Annual Meeting of Physical Organic Chemistry.
"Remarkable Piezofluorochromism of Crystals of [2.2]Paracyclophanyl-substituted Organoboron Complexes"
http://www.chem.tsukuba.ac.jp/poc2020/award.html

2021.5.13.

Our paper has been featured as a Supplementary Cover of J. Phys. Chem. B! (J. Phys. Chem. B 2021, 125, 4831–4837.)

2021.4.7.

Seven undergraduate students and a research student have joined the Ikeda Lab.

2021.3.23.

A paper by Masaya Kanoh, Kiyomasa Honda, and Yuto Kokita (Almni) was published inJ. Phys. Chem. B!
Elongation of Triplet Lifetime Caused by Intramolecular Energy Hopping in Diphenylanthracene Dyads Oriented to Undergo Efficient Triplet–Triplet Annihilation

2021.1.13.

A collaborative paper with the group of Prof. Yagi (Osaka Pref. Univ.) was published in New J. Chem.
Synthesis of novel π-extended D–A–D-type dipyrido[3,2-a:2’,3’-c]phenazine derivatives and their photosensitized singlet oxygen generation

2020.6.6.

Prof. Ikeda won The Electrochemical Society of Japan, Organic Electron Transfer Chemistry Academic Award 2020. 'Elucidation of Mechanism for Back Electron-transfer Process in Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Reactions and Its Application to the Development of Organic Electronic Devices' https://orgelectrochem.electrochem.jp/Award.html

2020.4.7.

Five undergraduate students joined the Ikeda Lab.

2020.4.1.

Dr. Takuya Ogaki has joined to our group as a project assistant professor.

2020.3.16.

Our paper was selected as a Front Cover Picture of ChemPhotoChem. (ChemPhotoChem 2020, , 4 168–172.)

2019.12.07.

Mr. Kimiya Taniguchi (M2) won Excellent Poster Award the 46th Annual Meeting of Main Group Element Chemistry.
"Theoretical Simulation and Organic Semiconductor Characteristics of Tetrathienonaphthalene Derivatives Designed by Machine Learning"

2019.11.16.

Mr. Yudai Yokoyama (M2) won BCSJ Award for Poster Presentation on the 13th Symposium on Organic π-Electron System.
"Synthesis of Novel TADF Materials Having Arylsulfonyl Groups and Fabrication of its Inverted OLED"

2019.11.16.

Mr. Takumu Ari (M1) won Chemistry Letters Young Award on the 13th Symposium on Organic π-Electron System.
"Pressure Response of Florescence of the Organoboron Complex Having a Cyclophane"

2019.11.15.

Mr. Kiyomasa Honda (M1) won Excellent Poster Award in The 8th TKU-ECUST-OPU-KIST-UH-IHU-KMITL-UTAR-TNU Joint Symposium on Advanced Materials and Applications (JSAMA-8).
"Photon Upconversion of a Diphenylanthracene Dyad Connected by a Dimethylmethylene Linker"

2019.10.25.

Mr. Takafumi Tsuno (M1) won the Best Poster Presentation Award in the 7th HCMUT-TKU-OPU-KMITL-DLU-TNU Joint Symposium on Chemistry, Environment, Natural Sciences and Technologies (JSCENS-7).
"Induction of Helical Chirality of Foldamer Possessing Triethylene Glygol Chains"

2019.10.15.

A paper by Mr. Shimono, Mr. Takae, Mr. Sera (Almni) was published in ChemPhotoChem.
Rates of Ring Opening of Radical Cation Intermediates Govern Differences in Thermoluminescence between 1‐ and 2‐Naphthyl‐Substituted Methylenecyclopropanes

2019.9.27.

A paper by Mr. Kanoh was published in J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem.
Triplet–Triplet Annihilation-Photon Upconversion Employing an Adamantane-linked Diphenylanthracene Dyad Strategy

2018.8.30.

Takumu ARI (M1) won the Excellent Poster Award at The 22th Symposium of Society of Iodine Science, Japan.

2019.7.9.

A collaborative study on intramolecular singlet fission was published in J. Phys. Chem. C.
Exergonic Intramolecular Singlet Fission of an Adamantane-Linked Tetracene Dyad via Twin Quintet Multiexcitons

2019.5.22.

A collaborative study with Dr. Nishida on dibenzophosphole derivatives was published in Eur. J. Org. Chem. .
Synthesis and Photophysical Studies of Dibenzophosphole Oxides with D–A–D Triad Structures

2018.11.24.

Mr. Yudai Yokoyama (M1) won the Presentation Award in the 6th TKU-OPU-HCMUT-DLU-TNU Joint Symposium on Chemistry and Natural Sciences (JSCNS-6). "Novel Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Material Having Arylsulfonyl Groups: Synthesis and iOLED Fabrication"

2018.10.26.

Mr. Shuhei Kawaoka (M2) won the Best Poster Award in the 14th Korea-Japan Symposium on Frontier Photoscience. "Intramolecular Singlet Fission Behavior of Adamantane-linked Tetracene Dyad"

2018.9.19.

A collaborative paper with the group of Prof. Kobori (Kobe Univ.) is published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett..
Singlet-Fission-Born Quintet State: Sublevel Selections and Trapping by Multiexciton Thermodynamics

2018.9.12.

Our paper was selected as a Front Cover Picture of Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. (Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 2018, 17, 1157–1168.)

2018.9.5.

A collaborative paper with Group of Prof. Kobori at Kobe Univ. was published in J. Photopolym. Sci. Technol..
Time-Resolved EPR Study on Singlet-Fission Induced Quintet Generation and Subsequent Triplet Dissociation in TIPS-Phenyl-Tetracene Aggregates

2018.7.18.

A paper by Dr. Kuramoto was published inPhotochem. Photobiol. Sci..
A Leaning Amine–Ketone Dyad with a Nonconjugated Linker: Solvatofluorochromism and Dual Fluorescence Associated with Intramolecular Charge Transfer

2018.4.27.

Dr. Yasunori Matsui won the Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant Awards.

2018.4.6.

Six undergraduate students joined the Ikeda Lab.

2017.2.28.

Yudai YOKOYAMA (B4) won the Ohka Award at Presentation of Graduation Theses.
"Synthesis and Physical Properties of Thermally-activated Delayed Fluorescence Material Using Arylsulfonyl Group"

2017.2.20.

Haruka IZUMI (M2) won the Ohka Award at Presentation of Master Theses.
"The Unique Network Structures Formed by C₃-Symmetric Triaryltriazine Derivatives"

2018.1.20.

A collaborative paper with Prof. Naito by M. Shigemori (Alumni) et al. was published in Res. Chem. Int..
Spectroscopic and electrical characterization of α,γ-bisdiphenylene-β-phenylallyl radical as an organic semiconductor

2017.11.27.

Mr. Masaya Kanoh（M2） won the Poster Prize in The 19th Symposium of The Reserch Institute for Molecular Electronic Devices.

2017.10.27.

Mr. Masaya Kanoh（M2） won the Excellence Presentation Award in The 13th Korea-Japan Symposium on Frontier Photoscience.
”Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Photon Upconversion Using a Dyad of Two Diphenylanthracenes Linked by Adamantane”

2017.10.7.

A collaborative paper with Kawase and Nishida Lab. (Univ. of Hyogo) and Dr. Hirao (Osaka Univ.) was published in ChemPhotoChem
Charge-transfer and Arrangement Effects on Delayed Photoluminescence from Phthalimide Co-crystals

2017.9.22.

Soichiro Koga (1st-year master's degree) won poster award at the 66th Symposium on Macromolecules.
”Induction and Inversion of Helical Chirality of a Foldamer Composed of Dithienyl Ketone and Benzene”

2017.9.5.

Yutaro Kuramoto (3rd-year doctor's degree) won the Outstanding Presentation Award for Students (Oral) at Annual Meeting on Photochemistry 2017.
”Unique Solvatofluorochromism of an Amine–Ketone Dyad Fixed in syn-Conformation”

2017.8.10.

A collaborative paper with Yamaguchi Lab. (Nagoya Univ.) and Yoshizawa Lab. (Kyushu Univ.) was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
Photochemical Intramolecular C-H Addition of Dimesityl-(hetero)arylboranes via a [1,6]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement

2017.7.28.

A review article in Japanese by Yamamoto, Kumeda, et al. was published in J. Jpn. Soc., Col. Mater.
”Effects of the Alkyl Substituents on the Organic Thin Film Transistor Characteristics of Thiophene-fused Naphthalenes: Molecular Simulation, Synthesis, and Device Characterization”

2017.6.22.

Assistant Prof. Yasunori Matsui won the Encouragement Award on Organic Electron Transfer Chemistry 2017.
”Analysis of Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Reaction and Its Application to Material Synthesis for the Organic Electronic Devices”

2017.6.14.

Our paper was selected as a Cover Picture of Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. (Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 2017, 16, 845–853.)

2017.5.15.

Our paper was selected as a Cover Picture of ChemPhotoChem (ChemPhotoChem 2017, 1, 188–197.). A Cover Profile highlighting our study was also released. link

2017.3.30.

Dr. Mirai Tanaka (alumnus) won the CSJ Student Presentation Award at the 97th Annual Meeting of The Chemical Society of Japan (2017).
“Remarkable Solvatofluorochromism of a [2.2]Paracyclophane-Containing Organoboron Complex”

2017.4.7.

Five undergraduate students joined the Ikeda Lab.

2017.4.1.

Dr. Takuya Ogaki moved to RIKEN (Takimiya group) as a postdoctoral researcher.

2017.3.24.

Mirai TANAKA (3rd-year doctor's degree) and Shota NISHIDA (2nd-year master's degree) won the TECHNOVATION Encouragement Prize from "Aogaki Foundation" of Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University

2017.2.22.

Shota NISHIDA (M2) won the Ohka Award at Presentation of Master Theses.
"Molecular Modification and Mixed Crystal Preparation of Organoboron Complex Oriented to Highly Efficient Light Emission"

Shuichi TANI (M2) won the Ohka Award at Presentation of Master Theses.
"Synthesis and Chiral Induction of Dithienyl Ketone–Benzene Alternating Helical Foldamer"

2017.2.20.

Our paper was selected as Cover Picture of Asian J. Org. Chem.（Asian J. Org. Chem. 2017, 6, 290–296.）.

2017.2.3.

A collaborative paper with Prof. Kamata (Niigata Univ.) and Prof. Takahashi (Univ. of Toyama) is published in Asian J. Org. Chem.
Electron-Transfer Reactions Triggered by Neutral or Cationic Photosensitizer: Methodology for Generation of o-Quinodimethane and Analysis of Back Electron-Transfer Process

2017.1.20.

A paper by Dr. T. Ogaki et al. was published in Asian J. Org. Chem.
Intramolecular Triple Cyclization Strategy for Sila- and Oxa-Analogues of Truxene with Long-Lived Phosphorescence

2016.12.19.

A paper by M. Tanaka (3rd-year doctor's degree) et al. was published in ChemPhotoChem.
Remarkable Solvatofluorochromism of a [2.2]Paracyclophane-Containing Organoboron Complex: A Large Stokes Shift Promoted by Excited State Intramolecular Charge Transfer

2016.12.9.

Shuichi Tani (M2) won a Presentation Award in the 25th Meeting of The Japan Petroleum Institute in Kansai Division.
”Dithienyl Ketone-Benzene Copolymer: A Novel Foldamer Whose Chirality Is Induced by External Stimuli”

2016.12.8.

Shota Nishida (M2) won the CSJ Poster Presentation Award 2016 for Excellent Research at the 6th CSJ Chemistry Festa.
”Highly Efficient Charge-transfer Luminescence of the Mixed Crystal of Two Diaryolmthanatoboron Difluorides”

2016.11.22.

Assistant professor Yasunori Matsui won a Presentation Award on the 35th Annual Meeting of Solid and Surface Photochemistry．
”Hole Mobility of Thin Film of Tetrathienonaphthalene: Amorphous Solid Simulation and Device Performance"
http://www3.muroran-it.ac.jp/sspc35/award.htm”

2016.11.21.

Keita Takabatake (1st year master’s degree)) won The First Place Award on The 4th TKU-OPU Joint Symposium on Frontier Chemistry and Materials for the 21st Century．
”The Excited State C–C Bond Cleavage–Luminescence Phenomenon of Benzophenone-substituted Methylenecyclopropanes”

2016.11.21.

Kei Mishima (1st year master’s degree) won The First Place Award on The 4th TKU-OPU Joint Symposium on Frontier Chemistry and Materials for the 21st CenturyでThe First Place Award.
”Syntheses, Properties, and Crystal Structures of Angularly- Fused Thienobisbenzothiophene and Its π-Extended Derivatives”

2016.11.8.

Kazuki Shimono (1st year master’s degree) won a Poster Prize at the 18th Research Meeting of the Research Institute for Molecular Electronic Devices.
”Contrasting Ring-opening Reactivity Controlling Luminescence of Naphthyl-substituted Methylelecyclopropanes”

2016.10.24.

A paper by Dr. Sakai (Graduate) et al. has been published in ChemPhysChem.
“Room-Temperature Phosphorescence of Crystalline Metal-free Organoboron Complex”

2016.10.16

A collaborative paper with Ito Lab. (Hirosaki Univ.) is published in Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. and selected as the BSCJ Award Article.
“Preparation of a Cyclic Polyphenylene Array for a Chiral-Type Carbon Nanotube Segment”

2016.9.28.

Kei Mishima (1st year master’s degree) won the Poster Award at the 5th KIST-OPU-ECUST-TKU Joins Symposium on Advanced Materials and Application (JSAMA-5).
”Syntheses and Basic Properties of Angularly-Fused Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds Possessing Thieno Rings”

2016.9.19.

Shota Nishida (2nd year master’s degree) won the Poster Award at the 25th Symposium on Organic Crystal.
”Creation and Properties of the Mixed Crystals Diaroylmethanatoboron Difluoride toward Efficient Emission”

2016.9.9.

A paper by Toru Oishi (M2) et al. has been published in J. Phys. Org. Chem..
“Adiabatic process of higher electronically excited states: luminescence from an excited state biradical generated by irradiation of benzophenone-substituted cyclopropanes”

2016.8.16.

A collaborative paper with the group of Stephan Irle (Nagoya Univ.) has been published in RSC Adv..
“Ab initio and first principles theoretical investigations of triplet–triplet fluorescence in trimethylenemethane biradicals ”

2016.4.13.

Yutaro KURAMOTO (2nd-year doctor's degree) won the CSJ Student Presentation Award at 96th Annual Meeting of The Chemical Society of Japan (2016).
“Mechanism for Generation of Phenonium Ion-containing Salts in Single-electron Transfer–Oxidation Reaction of Cage Compounds”

2016.4.1.

Yutaro KURAMOTO (2nd-year doctor's degree) became a Research Fellowship for Young Scientist (DC2) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

2016.3.24.

A paper by Atsushi YAMAMOTO (3rd-year doctor's degree), Kunihiko NAGAE (1st-year master’s degree), Motoki KUMEDA (undergraduate student) et al. has been published in The Journal of Organic Chemistry.
“Amorphous Solid Simulation and Trial Fabrication of the Organic Field-effect Transistor of Tetrathienonaphthalenes Prepared by Using Microflow Photochemical Reactions: A Theoretical Calculation-inspired Investigation”

2016.3.2.

Kasumi NISHIO (undergraduate student) won the Ohka Award at Presentation of Graduation Theses 2015/16.

2016.1.28.

Atsushi SAKAI (3rd-year doctor's degree) won the TECHNOVATION Grand Prize from "Kazuma ADACHI Foundation" of Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University

2015.12.7.

Our paper (Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 18128–18137.) has been chosen for Inside Back Cover.

2015.12.5.

Shota NISHIDA (1st-year master’s degree) won the Excellent Poster Award at The 42nd Symposium on Main Group Element Chemistry.

2015.12.2.

A paper by Atsushi YAMAMOTO (3rd-year doctor's degree) et al. has been published in J. Photochem. Photobiol. A Chem.
“Formation of a Trithia[5]helicene in an Unexpected Photoreaction of a Methyl-substituted Bis(dithienylethenyl)thiophene through a Double Sequence of 6π-Electrocyclization/Aromatization (Dehydrogenation/Demethylation)”

2015.11.21.

Mirai TANAKA (2nd-year doctor’s degree) won the Poster Award at 9th Symposium on Organic π-Electron Systems.

2015.11.12.

Yutaro KURAMOTO (1st-year doctor’s degree) won the CSJ Poster Presentation Award 2015 for Excellent Research at 5th CSJ Chemistry Festa.

2015.11.9.

A paper by Atsushi SAKAI (3rd-year doctor’s degree) and Mirai TANAKA (2nd-year doctor’s degree) et al. has been published and selected as a “Hot Paper” in Chem. – Eur. J..
"New Fluorescence Domain “Excited Multimer” Formed upon Photoexcitation of Continuously Stacked Diaroylmethanatoboron Difluoride Molecules with Fused π-Orbital in Crystals"

2015.11.6.

Takuya OGAKI (3rd-year doctor’s degree, enrolled in the Autumn) won The Best Contribution Award at The 2nd FZU–OPU Joint International Symposium on Photocatalysis, Photo-functional Materials, and Nano-science & Technology.
“Syntheses and Crystallographic Analyses of an Angularly-fused Thienobis[1]benzothiophene and Its CT Cocrystal with TCNQ”

2015.11.6.

Atsushi YAMAMOTO (3rd-year doctor’s degree) won the Poster Award at The 17th Seminer, The Research Institute for Molecular Electronic Devices, Research Organization for the 21st Century, Osaka Prefecture University.

2015.9.26.

Yutaro KURAMOTO (1st-year doctor’s degree) and Shota NISHIDA (1st-year master’s degree) won the Poster Award at 26th Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry, Japan.

2015.9.16.

Atsushi SAKAI (3rd-year doctor’s degree) won the Excellent Poster Award at The 18th Symposium of Society of Iodine Science, Japan.

2015.9.10.

Mirai TANAKA (2nd-year doctor’s degree) won the Excellent Student Presentation Award (Oral) at Annual Meeting on Photochemistry 2015, Japan.
"Photophysical Properties of Difluoroboron β-Diketonate Complex Possessing the [2.2]Paracyclophane Moiety"

2015.6.27.

A paper by Hitoshi KOBAYASHI (alumnus), Atsushi SAKAI (3rd-year doctor's degree) et al. has been published in Rapid Commun. Photosci..
“Fluorescence Behavior Associated with a Possible Intercolumnar Charge-transfer Interaction in the Crystalline State of a Dyad Consisting of Mesitylene and 1,4-Dicyano-2-methylnaphthalene Subunits”

2015.6.28.

Shota NISHIDA (1st-year master’s degree) won the Best Poster Award at The 11th Korea–Japan Symposium on Frontier Photoscience (KJFP-2015).
"A Mixed Crystal of Diaroylmethanatoboron Difluoride that Exhibits Exciplex Emission"

2014.5.1.

Atsushi SAKAI (3rd-year doctor's degree) won the CSJ Student Presentation Award at 95th Annual Meeting of The Chemical Society of Japan (2015).

2015.4.1.

Yasunori MATSUI, Ph.D. was promoted to a tenure-track assistant professor.

2015.3.3.

Shota NISHIDA and Yuta YASUYOSHI (undergraduate students) won the Ohka Award at Presentation of Graduation Theses 2014/15.

2015.2.25.

Taiki KIDO (2nd-year master's degree) won the Ohka Award at Presentation of Master Theses 2014/15.

2014.12.5.

Takuma OWADA (2nd-year master's degree) won the Excellent Research Award at a united workshop of The 23rd Workshop, Kansai Branch of The Japan Petroleum Institute & The 59th Workshop, Kansai Branch of The Japan Institute of Energy.

2014.11.25.

Toru OISHI (1st-year master's degree) won the Poster Award at The 16th Seminer, The Research Institute for Molecular Electronic Devices, Research Organization for the 21st Century, Osaka Prefecture University.

2014.10.31.

Atsushi SAKAI, Atsushi YAMAMOTO (2nd-year doctor's degree), Takuya OGAKI (2nd-year doctor's degree, enrolled in the Autumn), Yutaro KURAMOTO (2nd-year master's degree), and Toru OISHI (1st-year master's degree) received the President Award from Osaka Prefecture University.

2014.9.26.

Atsushi YAMAMOTO (2nd-year doctor's degree) won the Excellent in Poster Award at 2014 2nd TKU–OPU and 4th TKU–ECUST–OPU–KIST International Symposium.

2014.9.16.

A paper by Yasunori Matsui, Ph.D., Taiki KIDO (2nd-year master's degree) et al. has been published in Chem. Commun..
“The “Excited State C–C Bond Cleavage—Luminescence” Phenomenon of a Biphenyl-substituted Methylenecyclopropane Triggered by Intermolecular Energy Transfer from Triplet Benzophenone”

2014.8.9.

Atsushi YAMAMOTO (2nd-year doctor's degree) won the Poster Award at The Summer School, The 46th Meeting of Young Researcher Association for Physical Organic Chemistry, Japan.

2014.6.27.

Yutaro KURAMOTO (2nd-year master's degree) won the Excellent Poster Award at The 38th Symposium on Electroorganic Chemistry.

2014.6.15.

Toru OISHI (1st-year master's degree) won the Excellent Poster Award at The 35th Meeting of Young Researcher Association for Photochemitsry, Japan.

2014.6.1.

A paper by Yutaro KURAMOTO (2nd-year master's degree) et al. has been published in Tetrahedron Lett..
"Unexpected Formation of a Phenonium Ion-containing Salt by Single Electron-transfer Oxidation of a Cage Compound Possessing Triphenylamine Moieties"

2014.6.1.

A paper by Takuya OGAKI (1st-year doctor's degree, enrolled in the Autumn) et al. has been published in Tetrahedron Lett..
"One-pot Photochemical Synthesis of Novel Thienobis[1]benzothiophene with an Angularly-fused Structure that Promotes Unique Intermolecular S•••S Contacts in the Crystalline State"

2014.4.1.

Mirai TANAKA (1st-year doctor's degree) became a Research Fellowship for Young Scientist (DC1) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

2014.3.19.

Mirai TANAKA (2nd-year master's degree) and Yusuke TOMIYORI (2nd-year master’s degree) received the President Award from Osaka Prefecture University.

2014.3.3.

Akari YOSHIMOTO (undergraduate student) won the Ohkakai Award at Presentation of Graduation Theses 2013/14.

2014.2.18.

Mirai TANAKA (2nd-year master's degree) won the Ohkakai Award at Presentation of Master Theses 2013/14.

2014.2.8.

A paper by Takuya OGAKI (1st-year doctor's degree, enrolled in the Autumn) and Toru AOKI (1st-year master's degree) et al. has been published in Chemistry Letters.
"Theoretical Study Demonstrating that Silylene Bridging Brings about LUMO Energy Lowering without Increasing the Reorganization Energy for Single Electron Transfer"

2014.1.21.

A paper in collaboration with Takeshi KAWASE Lab (University of Hyogo) and Dr. Hiroyuki KURATA (Osaka University) has been published in Chemistry Letters.
"Pyreno[4,5-b]furan and -[4,5-b:9,10-b']difuran Derivatives as New Blue Fluorophores: Synthesis, Structure, and Electronic Properties"

2013.12.7.

Atsushi SAKAI (1st-year doctor’s degree, JSPS research fellow) won the Excellent Poster Award at The 40th Symposium on Main Group Element Chemistry.

2013.12.6.

Yusuke TOMIYORI (2nd-year master's degree) won the Excellent Research Award at a united workshop of The 58th Workshop, Kansai Branch of The Japan Institute of Energy & The 22nd Workshop, Kansai Branch of The Japan Petroleum Institute.

2013.11.27.

Takuya OGAKI (1st-year doctor’s degree) won the Poster Award at The 9th Korea–Japan Symposium on Frontier Photoscience (KJFP-2013).
"Synthesis of a Novel Thiophene-fused Aromatic Compound via Photocyclization–Dehydrogenation Reactions"

2013.11.7.

Mirai TANAKA (2nd-year master's degree) won the Poster Award at The 14th Seminer, The Research Institute for Molecular Electronic Devices, Research Organization for the 21st Century, Osaka Prefecture University.

2013.11.1.

Yusuke KANO, Ph.D., Yasunori MATSUI, Ph.D., Atsushi SAKAI (1st-year doctor’s degree, JSPS research fellow), Atsushi YAMAMOTO (1st-year doctor’s degree), Yusuke TOMIYORI (2nd-year master’s degree), Taiki KIDO (1st-year master’s degree), and Yutaro KURAMOTO (1st-year master’s degree) received the President Award from Osaka Prefecture University.

2013.11.1.

Atsushi SAKAI (1st-year doctor’s degree, JSPS research fellow) won the Best Poster Award at The 22nd Symposium of Division of the Organic Crystals, The Chemical Society of Japan.

2013.9.12.

Taiki KIDO (1st-year master's degree) won the Poster Award at The Annual Meeting on Photochemistry 2013.

2013.9.12.

Yutaro KURAMOTO (1st-year master's degree) won the Poster Award at The Annual Meeting on Photochemistry 2013.

2013.9.7.

Taiki KIDO (1st-year master's degree) won the Poster Award at The 24th Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry.

2013.9.7.

Yutaro KURAMOTO (1st-year master's degree) won the Poster Award at The 24th Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry.

2013.6.28.

Prof. Hiroshi IKEDA was commended by Osaka Prefecture University for an excellent activity in education and research.

2013.6.7.

Atsushi SAKAI (1st-year doctor's degree, JSPS research fellow) won the Poster Award at 11th International Symposium on Functional π-Electron Systems (Fπ-11).
"White Emission from a Single Component System: Remarkable Concentration Effects on the Fluorescence of Diaroylmethanotoboron Difluoride"

2013.6.6.

A paper by Mirai TANAKA (2nd-year master's degree) et al. has been published in Tetrahedron Letters.
"Remarkable Difference in Fluorescence Lifetimes of the Crystalline States of Dibenzoylmethanatoboron Difluoride and Its Diisopropyl Derivative"

2013.5.28.

A paper in collaboration with Masahiko IYODA Lab (Tokyo Metropolitan University) has been published in Chemical Communications.
"Synthesis of Pentadecaphenylenes, Their Inclusion Properties, and Nanostructure Formation with C₆₀"

2013.5.24.

A paper by Atsushi YAMAMOTO (1st-year doctor's degree) et al. has been published in Tetrahedron Letters.
"Synthesis and Basic Properties of Tetrathieno[2,3-a:3′,2′-c:2″,3″-f:3‴,2‴-h]naphthalene: A New π-Conjugated System Obtained by Photoinduced Electrocyclization–Dehydrogenation Reactions of Tetra(3-thienyl)ethene"

2013.4.18.

Yusuke KANO, Ph.D. (3rd-year doctor's degree at the time) won the CSJ Student Presentation Award at 93th Annual Meeting of The Chemical Society of Japan (2013).

2013.4.18.

Yasunori MATSUI, Ph.D. (3rd-year doctor's degree at the time) won the CSJ Student Presentation Award at 93th Annual Meeting of The Chemical Society of Japan (2013).

2013.4.1.

Atsushi SAKAI (1st-year doctor's degree) became a Research Fellowship for Young Scientist (DC1) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

2013.4.1.

Atsushi YAMAMOTO (1st-year doctor's degree) received the Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant from The Japan Science Society.

2013.3.31.

Prof. Hiroshi IKEDA was commended by Osaka Prefecture University for a contribution to development of the university by conferral of degrees.

2013.3.25.

A paper by Yasunori MATSUI (3rd-year doctor's degree) et al. has been published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
"The Lifetime and Efficiency of Triplet–Triplet Fluorescence from the Excited State of a TMM Biradical Determined Using Transient Emission Spectroscopy on Two-color Two-laser Flash Photolysis"

2013.3.19.

Atsushi SAKAI (2nd-year master's degree) received the President Award from Osaka Prefecture University.

2013.3.1.

An expository book entitled "Emergence of Highly Elaborated π-Space and It's Function" has been published. Our research outcome is introduced in Chapter 3 "Innovative Development of New Functions of Highly Elaborated π-Space".

2013.1.24.

A paper in collaboration with Takeshi KAWASE Lab (University of Hyogo) has been highlighted in Noteworthy Chemistry.
"Solvent Polarity and Crystallization Influence Fluorescence Behavior"

2012.12.13.

A paper in collaboration with Takeshi KAWASE Lab (University of Hyogo) has been published in Chemistry—An Asian Journal.
"3,14-Bis(p-nitrophenyl)-17,17-dipentyltetrabenzo[a,c,g,i]-fluorene: A New Fluorophore Displaying Both Remarkable Solvatochromism and Crystalline-induced Emission"

2012.11.13.

Prof. Emer. Kazuhiko MIZUNO won the Award for Distinguished Achievements to the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association.

2012.11.10.

Atsushi SAKAI (2nd-year master's degree) won the Best Presentation Award at The 21th Symposium of Division of the Organic Crystals, The Chemical Society of Japan.

2012.11.10.

Yusuke TOMIYORI (1st-year master's degree) won the Best Poster Award at The 21th Symposium of Division of the Organic Crystals, The Chemical Society of Japan.

2012.11.5.

Yusuke TOMIYORI (1st-year master's degree) won the Poster Award at The 12th Seminer, The Research Institute for Molecular Electronic Devices, Research Organization for the 21st Century, Osaka Prefecture University.

2012.11.2.

Atsushi SAKAI (2nd-year master's degree), Atsushi YAMAMOTO (2nd-year master's degree), Jun KAWAKAMI (1st-year master's degree), and Yusuke TOMIYORI (1st-year master's degree) received the President Award from Osaka Prefecture University.

2012.9.13.

Yusuke TOMIYORI (1st-year master's degree) won the Poster Award at The Annual Meeting on Photochemistry 2012.

2012.6.28.

Prof. Hiroshi IKEDA was commended by Osaka Prefecture University for an excellent activity in education and research.

2012.6.24.

Jun KAWAKAMI (1st-year master's degree) won the Poster Award at The 33th Meeting of Young Researcher Association for Photochemitsry, Japan.

2012.6.21.

Atsushi YAMAMOTO (2nd-year master's degree) won the Excellent Poster Award at The 36th Symposium on Electroorganic Chemistry.

2012.5.30.

A paper by Atsushi SAKAI (2nd-year master's degree) et al. has been published in Tetrahedron Letters.
"White Light Emission from a Single Component System: Remarkable Concentration Effects on the Fluorescence of 1,3-Diaroylmethanatoboron Difluoride"

2012.5.25.

Atsushi SAKAI (2nd-year master's degree) won the ICHAC-10 Poster Award at The 10th International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry (ICHAC-10).
"White Emission from a Single Component: Remarkable Concentration Effects on the Fluorescence of 1,3-Diaroylmethanatoboron Difluoride"

2012.5.3.

A paper by Yusuke KANO (3rd-year doctor's degree) et al. has been published in Tetrahedron.
"DFT Studies of Unique Stereoelectronic Effects of Substituents on Divergent Reaction Pathways of Methylenecyclobutanone Radical Cations"

2012.5.1.

A review by Yasunori MATSUI (3rd-year doctor's degree) et al. has been published in Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan.
"Basic Properties of Organic Radicals and Their Functionalization —From Examples in the Past to Organic Radical Light-emitting Diode in the Future—"

2012.4.20.

Minoru SHIGEMORI (alumnus, 2nd-year master's degree at the time) won the Incentive Award at The 2011 Kansai-section Joint Convention Institutes of Electrical Engineering, Japan.

2012.4.1.

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2012.3.22.

Naoya ASADA (2nd-year master's degree) and Minoru SHIGEMORI (2nd-year master's degree) received the President Award from Osaka Prefecture University.

2012.3.22.

Yasunori MATSUI (2nd-year doctor's degree) won the TECHNOVATION Encouraging Prize from "Kazuma ADACHI Foundation" of Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University

2012.3.2.

Jun KAWAKAMI (undergraduate student) won the Ohkakai Award at Presentation of Graduation Theses 2011/12.

2012.2.22.

Yosuke NAKANISHI (2nd-year master's degree) won the Ohkakai Award at Presentation of Master Theses 2011/12.

2011.12.6.

Atsushi YAMAMOTO (2nd-year master's degree) won the Poster Award at The 10th Seminer, The Research Institute for Molecular Electronic Devices, Research Organization for the 21st Century, Osaka Prefecture University.

2011.12.5.

Naoya ASADA (2nd-year master's degree) won the Best Poster Award, that was the only award in organic chemistry field, at The 1st CSJ Chemistry Festival —Anniversary of International Year of Chemistry 2011—.

2011.11.4.

Yasunori MATSUI (2nd-year doctor's degree), Naoya ASADA, Minoru SHIGEMORI (2nd-year master's degree), and Atsushi SAKAI (1st-year master's degree) received the President Award from Osaka Prefecture University.

2011.10.31.

Atsushi SAKAI (1st-year master's degree) won the Best Poster Award at The 8th Korea–Japan Symposium on Frontier Photoscience (KJFP-2011).
"Fluorescence Properties and Crystal Structures of Organoboron Difluorides"

2011.10.1.

Eisuke OHTA, Ph.D. (a former researcher of RIKEN) joined our laboratory.

2011.9.23.

Minoru SHIGEMORI (2nd-year master's degree) won the Poster Award at The 22nd Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry.

2011.9.23.

Atsushi SAKAI (1st-year master's degree) won the Poster Award at The 22nd Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry.

2011.9.8.

Naoya ASADA (2nd-year master's degree) won the Best Student Presentation Award at The Annual Meeting on Photochemistry 2011.

2011.7.22.

A paper by Yusuke KANO (2nd-year doctor's degree) et al. has been published in Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry.
"Density Functional Theory Study of Silole-fused Tetramethyleneethane Biradicals with Orbital Interactions"

2011.7.13.

A paper by Mitsutaka IMOTO, Ph.D. (alumnus) and Yasunori MATSUI (2nd-year doctor's degree) et al. has been published in The Journal of Organic Chemistry.
"A Probable Hydrogen-bonded Meisenheimer Complex: An Unusually High S_NAr Reactivity of Nitroaniline Derivatives with Hydroxide Ion in Aqueous Media"

2011.7.7.

A paper by Yasunori MATSUI (2nd-year doctor's degree) et al. has been published in Tetrahedron.
"Twisted Molecular Geometry and Localized Electronic Structure of the Triplet Excited gem-Diphenyltrimethylenemethane Biradical: Substituent Effects on Thermoluminescence and Related Theoretical Calculations"

2011.6.29.

Prof. Hiroshi IKEDA was commended by Osaka Prefecture University for an excellent activity in education and research.

2011.6.24.

Naoya ASADA (2nd-year master's degree) won the Excellent Poster Award at The 35th Symposium on Electroorganic Chemistry.

2011.6.2.

Yasunori MATSUI (2nd-year doctor's degree) won the Student Travel Grant Awards at The 5th GSC (Green Sustainable Chemistry).

2011.4.1.

Prof. Hiroshi IKEDA acceded and a new laboratory got started.