2024

      1. Naoka Amamizu*, Mitsuhiro Nishida, Keisuke Sasaki, Ryohei Kishi, Yasutaka Kitagawa*
        Theoretical study on the open-shell electronic structure and electron conductivity of [18]annulene as a molecular parallel circuit model
        Nanomaterials., 2024, 14(1), 98 (14 pages), DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14010098

      2. Katsumasa Sakoda, Sho Yamaguchi, Kazuki Honjo, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Takato Mitsudome, Tomoo Mizugaki*
        Reductive amination of carboxylic acids under H2 using a heterogeneous Pt–Mo catalyst
        Green Chem.2024, 26, 2571-2576, DOI::https://doi.org/10.1039/D3GC02155F
        プレスリリース(2024.1.5)
        『天然に多く存在するカルボン酸から 有用なアルキルアミンを合成する新触媒環境にやさしく、より安全で省エネルギーな触媒プロセスの開発に期待』
        ResOU:https://resou.osaka-u.ac.jp/ja/research/2024/20240105_3


      3. Wataru Yoshida*, Yasuteru Shigeta, Hiroshi Matsui, Hajime Miyamoto, Ryohei Kishi*, Yasutaka Kitagawa
        Theoretical Study on Molecular Charge Populations of One-Dimensional π-Stacked Multimers in Neutral and Electron Oxidation States
        Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 2024, 97, uoae009, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bulcsj/uoae009

      4. Kaisheng Wang, Satoru Ito, Shuang Ren, Daiki Shimizu, Norihito Fukui, Ryohei Kishi, Qiang Liu, Atsuhiro Osuka, Jianxin Song, Hiroshi Shinokubo
        A Triply Linked Porphyrin−Norcorrole Hybrid with Singlet Diradical Character
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202401233, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202401233

      5. Wataru Yoshida*, Hajime Miyamoto, Jinki Shoda, Hiroshi Matsui, Ryota Sugimori, Ryohei Kishi*, Yasutaka Kitagawa
        Theoretical Study on Open-Shell Electronic Structures of Through-Bond/Through-Space Hybrid Conjugated Ladder Graphs
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 2024, 842, 141196

      6. Shigenori Iwai*, Yuta Hayashi, Tomohiro Baba, Yasutaka Kitagawa
        Acceleration of hydrolytic ring opening of N7-alkylguanine by the terminal carbamoyl group of glycidamide
        Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 5014-5017, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CC04997C

2023

      1. Tomohiko Nishiuchi*, Yuta Makihara, Ryohei Kishi, Hiroyasu Sato, Takashi Kubo*
        Stacked antiaromaticity in the π-congested space between the aromatic rings in the anthracene dimer
        J. Phys. Org. Chem., 2023, 36, e4451. https://doi.org/10.1002/poc.4451

      2. Takayoshi Tonami, Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Yasutaka Kitagawa
        Effects of introducing nitrogen atoms into oligoacene skeleton on vibronic coupling and singlet fission dynamics
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 2023, 813, 140311.
        DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2023.140311


      3. Takayoshi Tonami, Hajime Miyamoto, Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Yasutaka Kitagawa
        Theoretical Study on Thermal Structural Fluctuation Effects of Intermolecular Configurations on Singlet Fission in Pentacene Crystal Models
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 2023, 127, 1883–18931, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.2c08864

      4. Bo-Hao Chen, Jun-Jia Xu, Wei-Ren Lai, Chung-Kai Chang, Jeng-Lung Chen, Jyh-Fu Lee, Jin-Ming Chen, Hwo-Shuenn Sheu, Jey-Jau Lee, Yoshiki Kubota, Ming-Hsi Chiang, Yasutaka Kitagawa*, Yu-Chun Chuang*, I-Jui Hsu*
        Structure determination and magnetic studies of triazole chelated Co(II) coordination polymers
        J. Chin. Chem. Soc., 2023, 70, 1187-1199, https://doi.org/10.1002/jccs.202300061

      5. Yuki Miyazawa, Zhe Wang, Sayaka Hatano, Ryukichi Takagi, Hideto Matsuoka, Naoka Amamizu, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Eiichi Kayahara, Shigeru Yamago, Manabu Abe
        Generation and Characterization of a Tetraradical Embedded in a Curved Cyclic Paraphenylene Unit
        Chem. Eur. J., 2023, 29, e20231009, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202301009

      6. Rina Takano, Koki Masuda, Keigo CHO, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Takayuki Ishida
        Bilayered lanthanide squarate hydrates (Ln = Eu to Lu) and magnetization reversal barriers 21 K for Ln = Tm and 57 K for Yb
        Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 8873-8882, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1039/D2DT03878A


      7. Takuya Kodama, Kenta Uchida, Chihiro Nakasuji, Ryohei Kishi, Yasutaka Kitagawa, and Mamoru Tobisu
        Open-Shell Germylene Stabilized by a Phenalenyl-Based Ligand
        Inorg. Chem., 2023, 62, 7861-7867, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00583

      8. Dominika Pomikło, Anna Pietrzak, Ryohei Kishi, and Piotr Kaszyński
        Bi-Blatter diradicals: Convenient access to regioisomers with tunable electronic and magnetic properties
        Mater. Chem. Front. 2023, 7, 4928-4943, https://doi.org/10.1039/d3qm00666b

      9. Yusuke Mizuno, Akira Nogata, Mitsuharu Suzuki, Ken-ichi Nakayama, Ichiro Hisaki, Ryohei Kishi, Akihito Konishi, and Makoto Yasuda
        Synthesis and Characterization of Dibenzothieno[a,f]pentalenes Enabling Large Antiaromaticity and Moderate Open-Shell Character through a Small Energy Barrier for Bond-Shift Valence Tautomerization
        J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 20595-20609,  DOI:https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.3c07356

      10. Wataru Kosaka, Yoshie Hiwatashi, Naoka Amamizu, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Jun Zhang, Hitoshi Miyasaka
        Densely Packed CO2 Aids Charge, Spin, and Lattice Ordering Partially Fluctuated in a Porous Metal–Organic Framework Magnet
        Angew.Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202312205, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202312205

      11. Kohei Tada, Yasutaka Kitagawa
        Issues on DFT+U calculations of organic diradicals
        Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2023, 25, 32110-32122, DOI :https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP04187E

      12. Jun Zhang, Wataru Kosaka, Qingxin Liu, Naoka Amamizu, Yasutaka Kitagawa, and Hitoshi Miyasaka*
        CO2-Sensitive Porous Magnet: Antiferromagnet Creation from a Paramagnetic Charge-Transfer Layered Metal–Organic Framework
        J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 26179-26189, DOI :https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c08583
        プレスリリース(2023.12.5)
        『二酸化炭素の吸着で非磁石を磁石に変えることに成功 ガス吸着による磁気スイッチ開発に進展』
        ResOU  :https://resou.osaka-u.ac.jp/ja/research/2023/20231205_1
        日経新聞:https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZRSP665385_V01C23A2000000/

2022

      1. K. Nakao, Y. Kamakura, M. Fujiwara, T. Shimizu, Y. Yoshida, H. Kitagawa, H. Yoshikawa, Y. Kitagawa, D. Tanaka
        Synthesis of Hexaazatriphenylene Charge-Transfer Complexes and Their Application in Cathode Active Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries
        Cryst. Growth Des., 2022, 22, 26-31, DOI :https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.1c00793

      2. Hirokazu Miyoshi, Ryosuke Sugiura, Ryohei Kishi, Sarah N. Spisak, Zheng Wei, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Nagao Kobayashi, Shreyam Chatterjee, Yutaka Ie, Ichiro Hisaki, Marina A. Petrukhina, Tohru Nishinaga, Masayoshi Nakano, Yoshito Tobe
        Dianion and Dication of Tetracyclopentatetraphenylene as Decoupled Annulene-within-an-Annulene Models
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202115316, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202115316

      3. Koki Horii, Ryohei Kishi*, Masayoshi Nakano, Daisuke Shiomi, Kazunobu Sato, Takeji Takui, Akihito Konishi*, and Makoto Yasuda*
        Bis-periazulene (Cyclohepta[def]fluorene) as a Nonalternant Isomer of Pyrene: Synthesis and Characterization of Its Triaryl Derivatives
        J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 3370-3375, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c00476

      4. Jun Zhang, Wataru Kosaka, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Hitoshi Miyasaka
        A Host-Guest Electron Transfer Mechanism for Magnetic and Electronic Modifications in a Redox-Active Metal−Organic Framework
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e20211576, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202115976
        プレスリリース:https://resou.osaka-u.ac.jp/ja/research/2022/20220315_1
        日経電子版:https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZRSP628412_V10C22A3000000/

      5. E. Watanabe, Y. Kasamatsu, T. Yokokita, S. Hayami, K. Tonai, H. Ninomiya, N. Kondo, Y. Shigekawa, H. Haba, Y. Kitagawa, M. Nakano, A. Shinohara
        Anion-exchange Experiment of Zr, Hf, and Th in HNO3 and Quantum Chemical Study on the Nitrate Complexes toward Chemical Research on Element 104, Rf
        Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange, 2022, 40 ,590-605, https://doi.org/10.1080/07366299.2021.2020956


      6. K. Tada, H. Ozaki, K. Fujimaru, Y. Kitagawa, T. Kawakami, M. Okumura
        Diradical Characters of s-Indaceno[1,2,3-cd;5,6,7-c’d’]Diphenalene with and without Interaction with MgO(001)
        e-J. Surf. Sci. Nanotechnol., 2022, 20, 59-67, https://doi.org/10.1380/ejssnt.2022-011

      7. Akira Hinokimoto, Toshinori Ono, Makoto Fujiwara, Hiroki Mori, Ryohei Akiyoshi, Shinya Nakamura, Osamu Tsutsumi, Akinori Saeki, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Satoshi Horike, Daisuke Tanaka
        Synthesis and Strong π–π Interaction of Hexaazatriphenylene Derivatives with Alternating Electron-Withdrawing and -Donating Groups
        Chem. Asia J., 2022, 17, e202200225 https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.202200225

      8. Megumi Mukoyoshi, Mitsuhiko Maesato, Shogo Kawaguchi, Yoshiki Kubota, Keigo Cho, Yasutaka Kitagawa and Hiroshi Kitagawa
        Systematic Tuning of the Magnetic Properties in Mixed-Metal MOF-74
        Inorg. Chem., 2022, 61, 19, 7226–7230, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00646

      9. Masahiro Kato, Hayato Yoshizawa, Masato Nakaya, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Koichi Okamoto, Tomoaki Yamada, Masahito Yoshino, Kentaro Tanaka, Jun Onoe
        Unraveling the reasons behind lead phthalocyanine acting as a good absorber for near-infrared sensitive devices
        Sci. Rep., 2022, 12, 8810 (12pages).https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12990-z

      10. Sakura Mori, Sergio Moles Quintero, Naoki Tabaka, Ryohei Kishi, Raúl González Núñez, Alexandra Harbuzaru, Rocío Ponce Ortiz, Jose Marín-Beloqui, Shuichi Suzuki, Chitoshi Kitamura, Carlos J. Gómez-García, Yasi Dai, Fabrizia Negri, Masayoshi Nakano, Shin-ichiro Kato, Juan Casado
        Medium Diradical Character, Small Hole and Electron Reorganization Energies and Ambipolar Transistors in Difluorenoheteroles
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, 33, e202206680.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202206680

      11. Tomohiro Sugahara, Daisuke Hashizume, Norihiro Tokitoh, Hiroshi Matsui, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano and Takahiro Sasamori
        Characterization of Resonance Structures in Aromatic Rings of Benzene and Its Heavier-Element Analogues
        Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2022, 24, 22557-22561.  https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CP03068C

      12. Shingo Hashimoto, Ryohei Kishi, Kazukuni Tahara*
        Theoretical study on the structures, electronic properties, and aromaticity of thia[4]circulenes
        New J. Chem., 2022, 46, 22703-22714. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NJ04359A


      13. Hironobu Nakazawa, Akinobu Ohya, Yuto Morimoto, Yuta Uetake, Naohiko Ikuma, Kenji Okada, Masayoshi Nakano, Yumi Yakiyama, Hidehiro Sakurai*
        Synthesis of Sumanene-fused Acenes
        Asian J. Org. Chem., 2022, 11, e202200471. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajoc.202200471

2021

      1. M. Nakaya, Y. Kitagawa*, S. Watanabe, R. Teramoto, I. Era, M. Nakano, and J. Onoe*
        Immobilization of CO2 at room temperature using the specific sub-nm space of one-dimensional uneven-structured C60 polymer film
        Adv. Sustain. Syst., 2021, 5(1), 2000156https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202000156
        プレスリリース:https://resou.osaka-u.ac.jp/ja/research/2020/20201027_1

      2. M. Mitsumi, Y. Komatsu, M. Hashimoto, K. Toriumi, Y. Kitagawa, Y. Miyazaki, H. Akutsu, H. Akashi
        Large-Amplitude Thermal Vibration‐Coupled Valence Tautomeric Transition Observed in a Conductive One‐Dimensional Rhodium–Dioxolene Complex
        Chem. Eur. J., 2021, 27(9), 3074-3084, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202004217

      3. Jun Zhang, Wataru Kosaka, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Hitoshi Miyasaka
        A metal-organic framework that exhibits CO2-induced transitions between paramagnetism and ferrimagnetism
        Nature Chemistry, 2021, 13, 191-199, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-00577-y
        (プレスリリースhttps://resou.osaka-u.ac.jp/ja/research/2020/20201201_1


      4. Kohei Tada, Shusuke Yamanaka, Takashi Kawakami, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Mitsutaka Okumura, Kizashi Yamaguchi, Shingo Tanaka
        Estimation of spin contamination errors in DFT/plane-wave calculations of solid materials using approximate spin projection scheme
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 2021, 765, 138291, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2020.138291


      5. Wataru Yoshida, Hiroshi Matsui, Hajime Miyamoto, Takayoshi Tonami, Ryota Sugimori, Kyohei Yoneda, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Theoretical Study on Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties for One-Hole-Doped Diradicaloids
        ACS Omega, 2021, 6, 3046–3059, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c05424

      6. Takanori Nagami, Hajime Miyamoto, Ryota Sakai, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Stabilization of Charge-Transfer States in Pentacene Crystals and Its Role in Singlet Fission
        J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 4, 2264–2275, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c10029

      7. Tomoaki Tanase*, Kanako Nakamae, Suzui Hayashi, Ayumi Okue, Risa Otaki, Tomoko Nishida, Yasuyuki Ura, Yasutaka Kitagawa, and Takayuki Nakajima
        Chiral Octapalladium Chains Supported by Enantiopure P-Stereogenic Linear Tetraphosphines, (R,R)- and (S,S)-Ph2PCH2P(Ph)CH2P(Ph)CH2PPh2
        Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 5, 3259-3273, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03684

      8. Kohei Tada, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Takashi Kawakami, Mitsutaka Okumura, and Shingo Tanaka
        Electron Density-based Estimation of Diradical Character: An Easy Scheme for DFT/Plane-wave Calculations
        Chem. Lett., 2021, 50, 392-396.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.200741

      9. Ryohei Akiyoshi, Yuki Komatsumaru, Masaki Donoshita, Shun Dekura, Yukihiro Yoshida, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Leonard F. Lindoy, and Shinya Hayami*
        Ferroelectric and Spin Crossover Behavior in a Cobalt(II) Compound Induced by Polar Ligand Substituent Motion
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 12717-12722, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202015322

      10. Yoshihiro Shimoyama,   Yasutaka Kitagawa,   Yuji Ohgomori,   Yoshihiro Kon,  Dachao Hong*
        Formate-driven catalysis and mechanism of an iridium-copper complex for selective aerobic oxidation of aromatic olefins in water
        Chemical Science, 2021, 12, 5796-5803, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC06634F

      11. Satoshi Okumoto* and Yasutaka Kitagawa*
        A Computational Study on Reduction Mechanism of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis
        Chem. Lett., 2021, 50, 672–675, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.200869

      12. Takanori Nagami, Ryota Sugimori, Ryota Sakai, Kenji Okada, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Theoretical Study on Singlet Fission in Aromatic Diaza s-Indacene Dimers
        The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021, 125, 3257-3267,  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c11598

      13. Akihito Konishi*, Koki Horii, Haruna Iwasa, Yui Okada, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano*, and Makoto Yasuda*
        Characterization of Benzo[a]naphtho[2,3-f]pentalene: Interrelation between Open-shell and Antiaromatic Characters Governed by Mode of the Quinoidal Subunit and Molecular Symmetry
        Chemistry -An Asian Journal, 2021, 16, 1553-1561, https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.202100398

      14. Takayoshi Tonami, Ryota Sugimori, Ryota Sakai, Kazuaki Tokuyama, Hajime Miyamoto, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Theoretical Study on the Effect of Applying an External Static Electric Field on the Singlet Fission Dynamics of Pentacene Dimer Models
        Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 11624–11634, https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP00880C
        Back Cover; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 12015-12016,  https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/cp/d1cp90112e

      15. Hajime Miyamoto, Kenji Okada, Kazuaki Tokuyama, Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical Study on Singlet Fission Dynamics in Slip-Stack-Like Pentacene Ring-Shaped Aggregate Models
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 2021, 125, 5585−5600, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.1c03934

      16. Tomoaki Tanase, Kanako Nakamae, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Takayuki Nakajima
        Octapalladium Strings Trap C60 and C70 Fullerenes Affording Metal-Chain-Wired Bucky Balls
        Chem. Euro. J., 2021, 27, 12953-12958, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202102020

      17. Ryota Matsuoka, Tatsuhiro Yoshimoto, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Tetsuro Kusamoto
        Structural and Magnetic Studies on Nickel(II) and Cobalt(II) Complexes with Polychlorinated Diphenyl(4-pyridyl)methyl Radical Ligands
        Molecules, 2021, 26, 5596, DOI : https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26185596

      18. Iori Era, Yasutaka Kitagawa*, Natsumi Yasuda, Taigo Kamimura, Naoka Amamizu, Hiromasa Sato, Keigo Cho, Mitsutaka Okumura, Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical Study on Redox Potential Control of Iron-Sulfur Cluster by Hydrogen Bonds: A Possibility of Redox Potential Programming
        Molecules 2021, 26, 6129.DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26206129

      19. Takashi Kubo, Yuki Suga, Daisuke Hashizume, Hiroki Suzuki, Tatsuya Miyamoto, Hiroshi Okamoto, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano
        Long Carbon–Carbon Bonding beyond 2 Å in Tris(9-fluorenylidene)methane
        J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 14360-14366.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c07431

      20. Joshua E. Barker, Tavis W. Price, Lucas J. Karas, Ryohei Kishi, Samantha N. MacMillan, Lev N. Zakharov, Carlos J. Gómez-García, Judy I. Wu, Masayoshi Nakano, Michael M. Haley
        A Tale of Two Isomers: Enhanced Antiaromaticity/Diradical Character versus Deleterious Ring‐Opening of Benzofuran‐fused s‐Indacenes and Dicyclopenta[b,g]naphthalenes
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 22385-22392.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202107855

      21. K. Tada, H. Ozaki, K. Fujimaru, Y. Kitagawa, T. Kawakami, M. Okumura
        Can we enhance diradical character using interaction with stoichiometric surfaces of ionic oxides? A theoretical investigation using chemical indices
        Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 25024-25028 (Communication). DOI: 10.1039/D1CP03439A

2020

      1. Kensuke Nakashima, Takeshi Shimizu, Yoshinobu Kamakura, Akira Hinokimoto, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Hirofumi Yoshikawa*, Daisuke Tanaka*
        A new design strategy for redox-active molecular assemblies with crystalline porous structures for lithium-ion batteries
        Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 37-43, DOI: 10.1039/c9sc04175c

      2. Kanako Nakamae, Takayuki Nakajima, Yasuyuki Ura, Yasutaka Kitagawa, and Tomoaki Tanase*
        Facially Dispersed Polyhydride Cu9 and Cu16 Clusters Comprising Apex-Truncated Supertetrahedral and Square-Face-Capped Cuboctahedral Copper Frameworks
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 132, 2262-2267, DOI: 10.1002/ange.201913533

      3. Joshua E. Barker, Justin J. Dressler, Abel Cárdenas Valdivia, Ryohei Kishi, Eric T. Strand, Lev N. Zakharov, Samantha N. MacMillan, Carlos J. Gómez-García, Masayoshi Nakano,* Juan Casado,* Michael M. Haley*
        Molecule Isomerism Modulates the Diradical Properties of Stable Singlet Diradicaloids
        J. Am.Chem. Soc., 2020, 142,1548-1555https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b11898

      4. Kohei Tada, Takashi Kawakami, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Mitsutaka Okumura, Kizashi Yamaguchi, Shingo Tanaka
        Comparison of Effective Exchange Integrals of H-H and H-He-H Chains vs. Single Molecules: a Theoretical Study
        Chem. Lett., 2020, 49, 137-140, https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.190806

      5. T. Fujii , Y. Kitagawa, K. Ikenaga, H. Tada, I. Era, M. Nakano,
        Theoretical Study on Magnetic Interaction in Pyrazole-Bridged Dinuclear Metal Complex: Possibility of Intramolecular Ferromagnetic Interaction by Orbital Counter-Complementarity
        Magnetochemistry, 2020, 6, 10(1-9), DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry6010010

      6. Justin J. Dressler,Abel Cárdenas Valdivia,Ryohei Kishi,Gabriel E. Rudebusch,Austin M. Ventura,Brian E. Chastain,Carlos J. Gómez-García,Lev N. Zakharov,Masayoshi Nakano*,Juan Casado*,Michael M. Haley*
        Diindenoanthracene Diradicaloids Enable Rational, Incremental Tuning of Their Singlet-Triplet Energy Gaps
        Chem, 2020, 6, 1353-1368, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2020.02.010

      7. T. Nagami, K. Okada, H. Miyamoto, W. Yoshida, T. Tonami, M. Nakano*
        Molecular Design Principle for Efficient Singlet Fission Based on Diradical Characters and Exchange Integrals:Multiple Heteroatom Substitution Effect on Anthracenes
        The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020, 124, 11800-11809, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c02369

      8. C. Yan, M. Takeshita, J.-y. Nakatsuji, A. Kurosaki, K. Sato, R. Shang, M. Nakamoto, Y. Yamamoto, Y. Adachi, K. Furukawa, R. Kishi, M. Nakano
        Synthesis and properties of hypervalent electronrich pentacoordinate nitrogen compounds
        Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 5082-5088, DOI: 10.1039/d0sc00002g
         
      9. W. Yoshida, K. Okada, H. Miyamoto, T. Tonami, T. Nagami, M. Nakano*
        Theoretical Study of Non-Markov Effects on Singlet Fission Dynamics of Model Pentacene Dimers Using the Second-Order Time-Convolutionless Quantum Master Equation Method
        The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020, 124, 12220-12229,  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c01892

      10. Yoji Horii, Marko Damjanović, M.R. Ajayakumar, Keiichi Katoh, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Liviu Chibotaru, Liviu Ungur, Marta Mas-Torrent, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Brian K. Breedlove, Markus Enders, Jaume Veciana, Masahiro Yamashita
        Highly oxidized states of phthalocyaninato terbium(III) multiple‐decker complexes showing structural deformations, biradical properties and decreases in magnetic anisotropy
        Chem. Eur. J., 2020, 26, 8621-8630, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202001365

      11. J. Kim, R. Kishi, E. Kayahara, W. Kim, S. Yamago, M. Nakano, D. Kim
        Ultrafast Exciton Self-trapping and Delocalization in Cycloparaphenylenes: The Role of Excited-state Symmetry in Electron-vibrational Coupling
        Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 16989-16996,  https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202006066

      12. R. Kishi, M. Yamane, R. Sugiura, W. Yoshida, Y. Shimizu, M. Nakano*
        Theoretical study on aromatic and open-shell characters of carbon nanobelts composed of indeno[1,2-b]fluorene units: Dependence on the number of units and charge states
        RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 25736-25745, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA04787B


      13. Justin J. Dressler, Joshua E. Barker, Lucas J. Karas, Hannah E. Hashimoto, Ryohei Kishi, Lev N. Zakharov, Samantha N. MacMillan, Carlos J. Gomez-Garcia, Masayoshi Nakano, Judy I. Wu and Michael M. Haley*
        Late-stage Modification of Electronic Properties of Antiaromatic and Diradicaloid Indeno[1,2-b]fluorene Analogues via Sulfur Oxidation
        J. Org. Chem., 2020, 85, 10846-10857, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.0c01387

      14. T. Nagami, H. Miyamoto, W. Yoshida, K. Okada, T. Tonami, M. Nakano*
        Theoretical Molecular Design of Phenanthrenes for Singlet Fission by Diazadibora-Substitution
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 2020, 124, 6778-6789, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c05359

      15. T. Tonami, T. Nagami, K. Okada, W. Yoshida, H. Miyamoto, M. Nakano*
        Quantum Design for Singlet-Fission-Induced Nonlinear Optical Systems: Effects of π-Conjugation Length and Molecular Packing of Butterfly-Shaped Acenes
        J. Chem. Phys., 2020, 153, 084304 (17 pages), Invited (Special Topic on 65 Years of Electron Transfer), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0013985

      16. K. Okada, M. Nakano,* H. Miyamoto, H. Nakazawa, Y. Uetake, H. Sakurai
        Theoretical Study on Singlet Fission Dynamics in Sumanene-Fused Acene Dimers
        J. Phys. Chem. C  2020, 124, 19499-19507, https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c06215

      17. T. Nagami, T. Tonami, K. Okada, W. Yoshida, H. Miyamoto, M. Nakano*
        Vibronic coupling density analysis and quantum dynamics simulation for singlet fission in pentacene and its halogenated derivatives
        J. Chem. Phys., 2020, 153, 134302, Invited paper in Special topics on “Up- and Down-Conversion in Molecules and Materials”, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0024746
         
      18. Y. Shimoyama, S. Tamura, Y. Kitagawa, D. Hong, and Y. Kon
        A cobalt-substituted Keggin-type polyoxometalate for catalysis of oxidative aromatic cracking reactions in water
        Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020,  10, 8042-8048, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CY01758B
         
      19. Hajime Miyamoto, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Theoretical Study on Singlet Fission Dynamics in Pentacene Ring-Shaped Aggregate Models with Different Configurations
        ChemPhotoChem, 2020, 4, 5249-5263.  Invited paper in Special Topic on “Singlet Fission”
        https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202000089

         
      20. Hideki Hayashi, Joshua E. Barker, Abel Cárdenas Valdivia, Ryohei Kishi, Samantha N. MacMillan, Carlos J. Gómez-García, Hidenori Miyauchi, Yosuke Nakamura, Masayoshi Nakano*, Shin-ichiro Kato*, Michael M. Haley*, and Juan Casado*
        Monoradicals and Diradicals of Dibenzofluoreno[3,2-b]fluorene Isomers: Mechanisms of Electronic Delocalization
        J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 20444-20455.  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.0c09588

         

2019

      1. M. Nakano,* T. Nagami, T. Tonami, K. Okada, S. Ito, R. Kishi, Y. Kitagawa, T. Kubo
        Quantum Master Equation Approach to Singlet Fission Dynamics in Pentacene Linear Aggregate Models: Size Dependences of Excitonic Coupling Effects

        J. Comput. Chem., 2019, 40, 89-104, DOI:10.1002/jcc.25539

      2. Akihito Konishi*, Yui Okada, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano* and Makoto Yasuda*
        Enhancement of Antiaromatic Character via Additional Benzoannulation into Dibenzo[a,f]pentalene: Syntheses and Properties of Benzo[a]naphtho[2,1-f]pentalene and Dinaphtho[2,1-a,f]pentalene
        J. Am. Chem.Soc., 2019, 141, 560-571, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b11530
         
      3. Masayoshi Nakano*, Kenji Okada, Takanori Nagami, Takayoshi Tonami, Ryohei Kishi, Yasutaka Kitagawa
        Monte Carlo Wavefunction Approach to Singlet Fission Dynamics of Molecular Aggregates.
        Molecules, 2019, 24, 541. doi:10.3390/molecules24030541
        Abstract: http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/24/3/541
        PDF Version: http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/24/3/541/pdf

      4. Dennis Rottschäfer, Beate Neumann, Hans-Georg Stammler, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano, Rajendra S. Ghadwal*
        A Phosphorus Analogue of p-Quinodimethane with a Planar P4 Ring: A Metal-Free Diphosphorus Source. 
        Chem. Eur. J., 2019, 25, 3244-3247, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201805932
        https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201805932

      5. T. Iwamoto*, T. Abe, K. Sugimoto, D. Hashizume, H. Matsui, R. Kishi, M. Nakano, S. Ishida,
        A Tetrasilicon Analogue of Bicyclo[1.1.0]but-1(3)-ene Containing a Si=Si Double Bond with an Inverted Geometry
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 4371-4375, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201900824

      6. S. Takamuku, M. Nakano*
        Theoretical Study on Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Intramolecular Pancake-Bonded Diradicaloids with Helical Scaffolds
        ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 2741–2749, DOI:10.1021/acsomega.8b03619, 
        https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsomega.8b03619


      7. Akira Tanushi, Shun Kimura, Tetsuro Kusamoto,* Moe Tominaga, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Masayoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Nishihara*
        NIR Emission and Acid-Induced Intramolecular Electron Transfer Derived from a SOMO–HOMO Converted Non-Aufbau Electronic Structure. 
        J. Phys. Chem. C, 2019, 123, 4417-4423, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b08574
        https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b08574

      8. S. Kawano, S. Kawada, Y. Kitagawa, R. Teramoto, M. Nakano, K. Tanaka*
        Near-infrared absorption by intramolecular charge-transfer transition in 5,10,15,20-tetra- (N-carbazolyl)porphyrin through protonation
        Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 2992-2995, DOI: 10.1039/c8cc09667h
         
      9. J. Zhang, W. Kosaka, Y. Kitagawa, H. Miyasaka
        Host–Guest Hydrogen Bonding Varies the Charge-State Behavior of Magnetic Sponges
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58(22), 7351-7356, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201902301
         
      10. Kaede Kobayashi, Yukina Harada, Kazuki Ikenaga, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Masayoshi Nakano, Takashi Kajiwara
        Correlation between Slow Magnetic Relaxations and Molecular Structures of Dy(III) Complexes with N5O4 Nona-Coordination
        Magnetochemistry, 2019, 5, 27-1-14.https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry5020027

      11. Yasutaka Kitagawa, Hayato Tada, Iori Era, Takuya Fujii, Kazuki Ikenaga and Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical Study on the Difference in Electron Conductivity of a One-Dimensional Penta-Nickel(II) Complex between Anti-Ferromagnetic and Ferromagnetic States—Possibility of Molecular Switch with Open-Shell Molecules
        Molecules, 2019, 24, 1956-1-11, https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24101956

      12. Kenji Okada, Takayoshi Tonami, Takanori Nagami, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Breakdown of the Perturbative Approach to Molecular Packing Dependence of Singlet Fission Rates in Pentacene Dimer Models: A Systematic Comparison with the Quantum Master Equation Approach
        J. Phys. Chem. C, 2019, 123, 15403-15411, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b01713

      13. M. Nakano*
        Quantum master equation approach to singlet fission dynamics in pentacene ring-shaped aggregate models.
        J. Chem. Phys., 2019, 150, 234305-1-18, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5100116

      14. Yasuhiro Shiraishi, Takahiro Takii, Takumi Hagi, Shinnosuke Mori, Yusuke Kofuji, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Shunsuke Tanaka, Satochi Ichikawa, and Takayuki Hirai
        Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Resins as Metal-Free Semiconductor Photocatalysts for Solar-to-Hydrogen Peroxide Energy Conversion
        Nature Materials(2019), 2019, 18, 985-993, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0398-0

      15. Takayoshi Tonami, Takanori Nagami, Kenji Okada, Wataru Yoshida,Masayoshi Nakano*
        Singlet-Fission-Induced Enhancement of Third-Order Nonlinear
        Optical Properties of Pentacene Dimers
        ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 14, 16181-16190,  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.9b02378

      16. Kohei Tada, Yasutaka Kitagawa
        DFT Study of the Interaction Between Double-Decker Bis(phthalocyaninato) Yttrium(III) Complex and An (111) Surface
        AMTC letters, 2019, 6, 216-217.
         
      17. Kohei Tada, Shingo Tanaka, Takashi Kawakami, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Mitsutaka Okumura, Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Spin contamination errors on spin-polarized density functional theory/plane-wave calculations for crystals of one-dimensional materials
        App. Phys. Exp., 2019, 12, 11, (Spotlights)  
        DOI : https://doi.org/10.7567/1882-0786/ab4a37

      18. 江良伊織, 北河康隆, 多田隼人, 藤井琢也, 池永和輝, 中野雅由
        [2Fe-2S]フェレドキシン活性中心周囲の環境がイオン化ポテンシャルに与える影響に関する理論研究
        Journal of Computer Chemistry, Japan, 2019, 18(5), 239-240, 
        DOI : https://doi.org/10.2477/jccj.2019-0044P-

      19. P-J. Huang, Y. Natori, Y. Kitagawa, Y. Sekine, W. Kosaka, H. Miyasaka*
        Strong electronic influence of equatorial ligands on frontier orbitals in paddlewheel dichromium(II,II) complexes
        Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 908-914, 
        DOI : https://doi.org/10.1039/C8DT04347G




 

2018

      1. Y. Minamida, R. Kishi, K. Fukuda, H. Matsui, S. Takamuku, M. Yamane, T. Tonami, M. Nakano*
        Tunability of Open-Shell Character, Charge Asymmetricity and Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Covalently-Linked (Hetero)Phenalenyl Dimers
        Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 24, 1913-1921, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704679
        http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201704679/abstract

      2. H. Zhanga, R. Nakanishi, K. Katoh, B.K. Breedlove, Y. Kitagawa and M. Yamashita
        Low coordinated mononuclear erbium(III) single-molecule magnets with C3v symmetry: a method for altering single-molecule magnet properties by incorporating hard and soft donors
        Dalton Trans.(Communication), 2018, 47, 302-305, DOI: 10.1039/C7DT04053A
         
      3. N. Akasaka, K. Fujieda, E. Garoni, K. Kamada, H. Matsui, M. Nakano, T. Iwamoto*
        Synthesis and Functionalization of a 1,4-Bis(trimethylsilyl)tetrasila-1,3-diene through the Selective Cleavage of Si(sp2)–Si(sp3) Bonds under Mild Reaction Conditions
        Organometalics, 2018, 37, 172-175, DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00864
        http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00864

      4. H. Matsui, M. Yamane, T. Tonami, M. Nakano*, M. de Wergifosse, T. Seidler, B. Champagne
        Theoretical study on third-order nonlinear optical property of one-dimensional cyclic thiazyl radical aggregates: intermolecular distance, open-shell nature, and spin state dependences
        J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018, 122, 6779-6785, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b11319
        http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b11319

      5. Takuya Yoshida, Kohtaro Takahashi, Yuki Ide, Ryohei Kishi, Jun-ya Fujiyoshi, Sangsu Lee, Yuya Hiraoka, Dongho Kim, Masayoshi Nakano*, Takahisa Ikeue, Hiroko Yamada, Hiroshi Shinokubo*
        Benzonorcorrole Ni(II) Complexes: Enhancement of Paratropic Ring Current and Singlet Diradical Character by Benzo-Fusion
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 2209-2213, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201712961
        http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201712961/abstract

      6. S. Ito, T. Nagami, M. Nakano*
        Molecular design for efficient singlet fission
        J. Photochem. Photobiol. C: Photochem. Rev., 2018, 34, 85-120, 
        DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2018.01.002
        https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2018.01.002

      7. Hiroshi Matsui, Masaki Yamane, Takayoshi Tonami, Takanori Nagami, Kenichiro Watanabe, Ryohei Kishi, Yasutaka Kitagawa, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Theoretical study on gigantic effect of external static electric field application on nonlinear optical properties of 1,2,3,5-dithiadiazolyl π-radical dimer
        Mater. Chem. Front., 2018, 2, 785-790, DOI: 10.1039/C7QM00549K
        http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/qm/c7qm00549k#!divAbstract

      8. T. Morita, M. Damjanović, K. Katoh, Y. Kitagawa, N. Yasuda, Y. Lan, W. Wernsdorfer, B.K. Breedlove, M. Enders, M. Yamashita
        Comparison of the magnetic anisotropy and spin relaxation phenomenon of dinuclear terbium(III) phthalocyaninato single-molecule magnets using the geometric spin arrangement
        J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 2995-3007, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b12667
        https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.7b12667

      9. Yoshiki Natori, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Shogo Aoki, Rena Teramoto, Hayato Tada, Iori Era, Masayoshi Nakano
        Quantum Chemical Design Guidelines for Absorption and Emission Color Tuning of fac-Ir(ppy)3 Complexes
        Molecules, 2018, 23, 577-1-10, doi:10.3390/molecules23030577
        http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/3/577

      10. H. Matsui, S. Ito, M. Nakano*
        Open-Shell Character Dependences of Second Hyperpolarizability in Two-Dimensional Tetraradicaloids
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 122, 3680-3687, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b12456
        https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.7b12456

      11. Shota Takamuku, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Diradical Character and Second Hyperpolarizability of Alkali Earth Metal Inverse Sandwich Complexes Involving Cyclopentadienyl and Cyclooctatetraene Ligands
        Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2018, 2018, 2894-2899, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201800267

      12. Keiichi Katoh, Satoshi Yamashita, Nobuhiro Yasuda, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Brian K Breedlove, Yasuhiro Nakazawa, Masahiro Yamashita
        Control of the Spin Dynamics of Single-Molecule Magnets using a Quasi One-Dimensional Arrangement
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 9262-9267, DOI :https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201803161

      13. Shabbir Muhammad,* Masayoshi Nakano,* Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi, Ahmad Irfan,  Aijaz Rasool Chaudhry, Takayoshi Tonami, Soichi Ito, Ryohei Kishi and  Yasutaka Kitagawa
        Exploring the Novel Donor-Nanotube Archetype as Efficient Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Material: Asymmetric Open-Shell Carbon Nanotubes
        Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 16499-16507, DOI: 10.1039/C8NR03009J
        http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2018/NR/C8NR03009J#!divAbstract

      14. Akira Hinokimoto, Mizuki Tashiro, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Daisuke Tanaka*
        Regioselective Functionalization of 2,3,6,7,10,11-Hexacyano-1,4,5,8,9,12-hexaazatriphenylene with Primary Amines
        Chem. Lett., 2018, 47, 1006-1009, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.180360

      15. T. Nagami, J. Fujiyoshi, T. Tonami, K. Watanabe, K. Okada, R. Kishi, M. Nakano*, B. Champagne*, V. Liégeois*
        Evaluation of Aromaticity for Open-Shell Singlet Dicyclopenta-Fused Acenes and Polyacenes Based on Magnetically Induced Current
        Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 24, 13457-13466
        https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201802696
        https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/chem.201802696

      16. J-y. Fujiyoshi  T. Tonami  M. Yamane  K. Okada  R. Kishi  S. Muhammad A. G. Al-Sehemi  R. Nozawa  H. Shinokubo  M. Nakano*
        Theoretical Study on Open‐Shell Singlet Character and Second Hyperpolarizabilities in Cofacial π‐Stacked Dimers Composed of Weak Open‐Shell Antiaromatic Porphyrins
        ChemPhysChem, 2018, 19, 2863-2871,  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cphc.201800745

      17. M. Yamane, R. Kishi, T. Tonami, K. Okada, T. Nagami, Y. Kitagawa, M. Nakano*
        Open-Shell Characters, Aromaticities and Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Carbon Nanobelts Composed of Five- and Six-Membered Rings
        Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018, 7, 2320-2329,  https://doi.org/10.1002/ajoc.201800390

      18. Justin J. Dressler, Mitsuru Teraoka, Guzmán L. Espejo, Ryohei Kishi, Shota Takamuku, Carlos J. Gómez-García, Lev N. Zakharov, Masayoshi Nakano*, Juan Casado* and Michael M. Haley*
        Thiophene and its sulfur inhibit indenoindenodibenzothiophene diradicals from low-energy lying thermal triplets
        Nature Chemistry, 2018, 10, 1134-1140 
         https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-018-0133-5

      19. *K. Katoh, T. Morita, N. Yasuda, W. Wernsdorfer, Y. Kitagawa, B.K. Breedlove, *M. Yamashita
        Tetranuclear Dysprosium(III) Quintuple‐Decker Single‐Molecule Magnet Prepared Using a π-Extended Phthalocyaninato Ligand with Two Coordination Sites
        Chem. Euro. J., 2018, 24, 15522-15528, (Hot paper)DOI : https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201804100
         
      20. Nozomi Mihara, Yasuyuki Yamada, Hikaru Takaya, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Kazunobu Igawa, Katsuhiko Tomooka, Hiroshi Fujii, Kentaro Tanaka
        Site-Selective Supramolecular Complexation Activates Catalytic Ethane-Oxidation of mu-Nitrido-Bridged Iron Porphyrinoid Dimer
        Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 25, 3369-3375, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201805580

      21. D. Rottschäfer, J. Busch, B. Neumann, H. Georg Stammler, M. van Gastel, R. Kishi, M. Nakano, R. S. Ghadwal
        Diradical Character Enhancement by Spacing: N-Heterocyclic Carbene Analogues of Müller's Hydrocarbon
        Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 24, 16537-16542, DOI:10.1002/chem.201804524. 
        https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201804524

      22. P-J. Huang, Y. Natori, Y. Kitagawa, Y. Sekine, W. Kosaka, H. Miyasaka*
        One-dimensional chains of paddlewheel-type dichromium(II,II) tetraacetate complexes: Study of electronic structure influenced by σ- and π-donation of axial linkers
        Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 5371–5379, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00352




2017

      1. Masayoshi Nakano
        Open-Shell-Character-Based Molecular Design Principles: Applications to Nonlinear Optics and Singlet Fission
        The Chemical Record17, 27-62 (2017), DOI: 10.1002/tcr.201600094
         
      2. Kotaro Fukuda, Yuta Suzuki, Hiroshi Matsui, Takanori Nagami, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Benoît Champagne, Kenji Kamada, Yohsuke Yamamoto, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Tuning Nonlinear Optical Properties by Altering the Diradical and Charge-Transfer Characteristics of Chichibabin’s Hydrocarbon Derivatives
        Chem Phys Chem, 18, 142-148(2017), DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201601226
         
      3. Zi‐Shuo Yao, Shu‐Qi Wu, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Sheng‐Qun Su, You‐Gui Huang, Guo‐Ling Li, Zhong‐Hai Ni, Hiroyuki Nojiri, Yoshihito Shiota, Kazunari Yoshizawa, Soonchul Kang, Shinji Kanegawa, Osamu Sato
        Anisotropic Change in the Magnetic Susceptibility of a Dynamic Single Crystal of a Cobalt (II) Complex
        Angew. Chem.Int. Ed.56, 717-721(2017), DOI: 10.1002/anie.201606165

      4. S. Ito, T. Nagami, M. Nakano*
        Singlet Fission in Pancake-Bonded Systems
        Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 5737-5745, DOI: 10.1039/C6CP07641F
         
      5. M. Nakano*, K. Fukuda, S. Ito, H. Matsui, T. Nagami, S. Takamuku, Y. Kitagawa, B. Champagne
        Diradical and Ionic Characters of Open-Shell Singlet Molecular Systems
        J. Phys. Chem. A 2017, 121, 861-873, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b11647.
         
      6. H. Miyoshi, M. Miki, S. Hirano, A. Shimizu, R. Kishi, K. Fukuda, D. Shiomi, K. Sato, T. Takui, I. Hisaki, M. Nakano*, Y. Tobe*
        Fluoreno[2,3-b]fluorene vs. Indeno[2,1-b]fluorene: Unusual Relationship between the Number of π Electrons and Excitation Energy in meta-Quinodimethane Type Singlet Diradicaloids 
        J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 1380-1388, DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b02500
         
      7. T. Tsukamoto, R. Aoki, R. Sakamoto, R. Toyoda, M. Shimada, Y. Hattori, M. Asaoka, Y. Kitagawa, E. Nishibori, M. Nakano, H. Nishihara
        A simple zinc(II) complex that features multi-functional luminochromism induced by reversible ligand dissociation
        Chem.Commun. 2017, 53, 3657-3660, DOI: 10.1039/C6CC10190A
         
      8. Mizuki Asaoka, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Rena Teramoto, Koji Miyagi, Yoshiki Natori, Masayoshi Nakano
        Origin of solvent-independent optical property of unsubstituted BODIPY revisited
        Chem. Lett., 46, 536-538 (2017), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1246/cl.170024

      9. Mizuki Asaoka, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Rena Teramoto, Koji Miyagi, Yoshiki Natori, Ryota Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nishihara, Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical study on S1 and T1 states of homoleptic bis(dipyrrinato)zinc(II) model complex
        Polyhedron, 134, 113-116(2017), DOI :http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2017.01.058

      10. Yasutaka Kitagawa, Mizuki Asaoka, Yoshiki Natori, Koji Miyagi, Rena Teramoto, Toru Matsui, Yasuteru Shigeta, Mitsutaka Okumura, Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical study on relationship between spin structure and electron conductivity of one-dimensional tri-nickel(II) complex
        Polyhedron, 136, 125-131(2017), DOI :http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2017.02.020
         
      11. K. Fukuda, N. Matsushita, Y. Minamida, H. Matsui, T. Nagami, S. Takamuku, Y. Kitagawa, M. Nakano*
        Impact of diradical/ionic character on third-order nonlinear optical property in asymmetric phenalenyl dimers
        ChemistrySelect, 2017, 2, 2084 – 2087. DOI: 10.1002/slct.201700092
         
      12. Nozomi Mihara, Yasuyuki Yamada, Hikaru Takaya, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Shin Aoyama, Kazunobu Igawa, Katsuhiko Tomooka, Kentaro Tanaka
        Oxygen Reduction to Water by Cofacial Dimer of Fe(III)porphyrin and Fe(III)phthalocyanine Linked via Highly Flexible Four-fold Rotaxane
        Chem. Euro. J., 2017, 23, 7508–7514, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201700082
         
      13. K. Fukuda, J. Fujiyoshi, H. Matsui, T. Nagami, S. Takamuku, Y. Kitagawa, B. Champagne, M. Nakano*
        Theoretical Study on Quasi-One-Dimensional Open-Shell Singlet Ladder Oligomers: Multi-Radical Nature, Aromaticity and Second Hyperpolarizability
        Org. Chem. Front., 2017, 4, 779-789, DOI: 10.1039/C7QO00108H
        http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/qo/c7qo00108h#!divAbstract

      14. T. Saito, Y. Kitagawa, T. Kawakami, S. Yamanaka, M. Okumura, Y. Takano
        Assessment of Semi-empirical Molecular Orbital Calculations for Describing Magnetic Interactions
        Polyhedron, 136, 52-57(2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2017.02.029

      15. K. Miyagi, Y. Kitagawa, M. Asaoka, R. Teramoto, Y. Natori, T. Saito, M. Nakano
        Theoretical study of magnetic interaction in pyrazole-bridged dinuclear Cu(II) complex
        Polyhedron, 136, 132-135(2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2017.03.017

      16. Y. Tobe*, K. Tahara, H. Kozuma, V. Venkatesh, E. Ryomura, M. Nakano, R. Kishi, K. Nakamachi, H. Takahashi, H. Miyoshi
        Generation of Aromatic (Dehydro)benzoannulene Dications Stabilized by Platinum Catecholate Complexes
        ChemPlusChem, 2017, 82, 1052-1056, DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201700018
        http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cplu.201700018/full
         
      17. S. Takamuku, M. Nakano, M. Kertesz*
        Intramolecular Pancake-bonding in Helical Structures
        Chem.-Eur. J., 2017, 23, 7474-7482, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201700999
        http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201700999/abstract
         
      18. M. Nakano*
        Electronic Structure of Open-Shell Singlet Molecules: Diradical Character Viewpoint
        Top. Curr. Chem. (Z) (2017) 375, 47.doi:10.1007/s41061-017-0134-7 (Invited paper)   https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41061-017-0134-7


      19. Amalia Rapakousiou, Ryo Shiotsuki, Ryota Sakamoto, Ryota Matsuoka, Ukyo Nakajima, Tigmansu Pal, Rintaro Shimada, Md. Amran Hossain, Hiroyasu Masunaga, Satoshi Horike, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Sono Sasaki, Kenichi Kato, Takeaki Ozawa, Didier Astruc, Hiroshi Nishihara
        Liquid/liquid Interfacial Synthesis of 'Click' Nanosheet
        Chem. Euro J., 2017, 23, 8443-8449,
        http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201700201

      20. Y. Minamida, H. Matsui, K. Fukuda, T. Nagami, J.-y. Fujiyoshi, K. Yoneda, S. Takamuku, R. Kishi, Y. Kitagawa, M. Nakano*
        Theoretical Study on the Open-Shell Singlet Nature and the Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Corannulene Derivatives with Two Phenoxyl Radicals
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 2017, 121, 4171-4179, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b03014
        http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpca.7b03014

      21. R. Kishi*, T. Katsurayama, S. Ochi, A. Makino, N. Matsushita, M. Saito, T. Nagami, J.-y. Fujiyoshi, M. Nakano*
        Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of One-Dimensional Quinoidal Oligothiophene Derivatives Involving Phenoxyl Groups
        ChemistryOpen, 2017, 6, 506-513, DOI: 10.1002/open.201700083
        http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/open.201700083/full

      22. T. Mitsudome, K. Miyagawa, Z. Maeno, T. Mizugaki, K. Jitsukawa, J. Yamasaki, Y. Kitagawa, K. Kaneda
        Mild Hydrogenation of Amides to Amines over Platinum-Vanadium Bimetallic Catalyst
        Angew. Chem. Int. J., 2017, 56, 9381-9385, DOI: 10.1002/ange.201704199
         
      23. S. Ito, T. Nagami, M. Nakano*
        Rational design of doubly-bridged chromophores for singlet fission and triplet–triplet annihilation
        RSC Advances, 2017, 7, 34830–34845, DOI:10.1039/c7ra06032g
        http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/ra/c7ra06032g#!divAbstract

      24. T. Tsukamoto, R. Aoki, R. Sakamoto, R. Toyoda, M. Shimada, Y. Hattori, Y. Kitagawa, E. Nishibori, M. Nakano, H. Nishihara
        Mechano‐, thermo‐, solvato‐, and vapochromism in bis(acetato‐κ1O)[4'‐(4‐(diphenylamino)phenyl)‐](2,2':6',2''‐terpyridine‐ κ3N,N',N'')zinc(II) and its polymer
        Chem. Commun., 53, 9805-9808(2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7CC05022D
        http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2017/CC/C7CC05022D

      25. Takanori Nagami, Soichi Ito, Takashi Kubo, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Intermolecular Packing Effects on Singlet Fission in Oligorylene Dimers
        ACS Omega2017, 2, 5095–5103, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.7b00655
        http://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.7b00655

      26. Shogo Morisako, Rong Shang, Yohsuke Yamamoto*, Hiroshi Matsui, Masayoshi Nakano
        Triaminotriborane(3): A Homocatenated Boron Chain Connected by B-B Multiple Bonds
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 15234-15240, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201708215
        http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201708215/full 
        (Selected as a Frontispiece) DOI: 10.1002/anie.201784861

      27. Justin Dressler, Zheng Zhou, Jonathan Marshall, Ryohei Kishi, Shota Takamuku, Zheng Wei, Sarah Spisak, Masayoshi Nakano*, Marina Petrukhina*, Michael Mark Haley*
        Synthesis of 7,12-Dimesitylindeno[1,2-a]fluorene, the Sole Unknown Indenofluorene Regioisomer, and Crystallographic Characterization via Its Dianion
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 15363-15367, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201709282
        http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201709282/full

      28. R. Aoki, R. Toyoda, J.F. Kögel, R. Sakamoto, J. Kumar, Y. Kitagawa, K. Harano, T. Kawai, H. Nishihara
        Bis (dipyrrinato) zinc (II) Complex Chiroptical Wires: Exfoliation into Single Strands and Intensification of Circularly Polarized Luminescence
        J. Am. Chem. Soc. (Communication), 2017, 139, 16024-16027
        DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b07077 
         


         

2016

      1. Marc de Wergifosse, Benoit Champagne, Soichi Ito, Kotaro Fukuda, Masayoshi Nakano
        Challenging Compounds for Calculating Molecular Second Hyperpolarizabilities: the Triplet State of the Trimethylenemethane Diradical and Two Derivatives
        Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 6420-6429, 25 Nov 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5CP06547J. [Link to RSC HP]
         
      2. Ryohei Kishi, Shoki Ochi, Shioh Izumi, Akihiro Makino, Takanori Nagami, Jun-ya Fujiyoshi, Naoyuki Matsushita, Michika Saito, Masayoshi Nakano
        Diradical Character Tuning for the Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Quinoidal Oligothiophenes by Introducing Thiophene-S,S-dioxide Rings
        Chem. Euro. J.22, 1493-1500 (2016), 2015, December 16, 2015, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503705 [Link to Wiley HP]

      3. Julius F Kögel, Shinpei Kusaka, Ryota Sakamoto, Toshiki Iwashima, Mizuho Tsuchiya, Ryojun Toyoda, Ryota Matsuoka, Takamasa Tsukamoto, Junpei Yuasa, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Tsuyoshi Kawai, Hiroshi Nishihara
        Heteroleptic [Bis (oxazoline)](dipyrrinato) zinc (II) Complexes: Bright and Circularly Polarized Luminescence from an Originally Achiral Dipyrrinato Ligand
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.55, 1377-1381 (2016), 2015, December 10, 2015, DOI:10.1002/anie.201509411 [Link to Wiley HP]

      4. Masayoshi Nakano*, Kotaro Fukuda, and Benoît Champagne
        Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Asymmetric Non-Alternant Open-Shell Condensed-Ring Hydrocarbons: Effects of Diradical Character, Asymmetricity, and Exchange Interaction
        J. Phys. Chem. C.120, 1193-1207 (2016), Publication Date (Web): December 14, 2015. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b10503 [Link to Wiley HP]
         
      5. Yasuyuki Imada, Hideyuki Nakano, Ko Furukawa, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano, Hitoshi Maruyama, Masaaki Nakamoto, Akira Sekiguchi, Masahiro Ogawa, Toshiaki Ohta, and Yohsuke Yamamoto
        Isolation of hypervalent group-16 radicals and their application in organic-radical batteries
        J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 479-482 (2016), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b10774.
         
      6. Jianhuai Ye, Sayaka Hatano, Manabu Abe,* Ryohei Kishi,* Yusuke Murata, Masayoshi Nakano,* Waldemar Adam,
        A puckered singlet cyclopentane-1,3-diyl:Detection of the third isomer in homolysis, 
        Chem.-Eur. J., (Highlight), 22, 2186 (2016).  DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503975  Jan 11, 2016 .[Link to Wiley site
         
      7. Hiroshi Matsui, Kotaro Fukuda, Soichi Ito, Takanori Nagami, and Masayoshi Nakano*,
        Open-Shell Singlet Nature and σ-/π-Conjugation Effects on the Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Si Chains: Polysilane and Poly(disilene-1,2-diyl)J. Phys. Chem. A, 120, 948-955 (2016), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b11895 [Link to ACS site
         
      8. Masayoshi Nakano* and Benoît Champagne,
        Nonlinear optical properties in open-shell molecular systems,
        WIREs Comput Mol Sci 6, 198–210 (2016). (Overview/Front Cover),
         [Link to Wiley site]
         
      9. Ryota Sakamoto, Toshiki Iwashima, Julius F. Kögel, Shinpei Kusaka, Mizuho Tsuchiya, Yasutaka Kitagawa, and Hiroshi Nishihara
        Dissymmetric Bis(dipyrrinato)zinc(II) Complexes: Rich Variety and Bright Red to Near-Infrared Luminescence with a Large Pseudo Stokes Shift
        J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 5666-5677, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b02128 (Web): April 4, 2016 (Selected as JACS Spotlights) [Link to ACS site]
         
      10. Gabriel E. Rudebusch, José L. Zafra, Kjell Jorner, Kotaro Fukuda, Jonathan L. Marshall, Iratxe Arrechea-Marcos, Guzmán L. Espejo, Rocío Ponce Ortiz, Carlos J. Gómez-García, Lev N. Zakharov, Masayoshi Nakano*, Henrik Ottosson*, Juan Casado* and Michael M. Haley*
        Diindeno-fusion of an anthracene as a design strategy for stable organic biradicals
        Nat. Chem., 8, 753–759 (2016). DOI:10.1038/nchem.2518, May 23 published online. [Link to Nat. Chem. site]

      11. Kotaro Fukuda, Jun-ya Fujiyoshi, Yuka Minamida, Takanori Nagami, Hiroshi Matsui, Soichi Ito, Ryohei Kishi, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Masayoshi Nakano*, Benoît Champagne,
        Theoretical Investigation of Curved π-Conjugated Fullerene Flakes: Open-Shell Character, Aromaticity, and Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Property
        J. Phys. Org. Chem., 30, e3581, DOI: 10.1002/poc.3581,  [Link to Wiley site]
         
      12. Soichi Ito, Takanori Nagami, Masayoshi Nakano*,
        Design Principles of Electronic Couplings for Intramolecular Singlet Fission in Covalently-linked Systems
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 120, 6236-6241, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b07153.
         
      13. Shota Takamuku, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Takanori Nagami, Jun-ya Fujiyoshi, Benoît Champagne, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Origin of the Enhancement of the Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Metal–Carbon Bonds
        J.Phys.Chem.A, 120, 6838-6845 (2016), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b05711
         
      14. Gabriel E. Rudebusch, Guzmán L. Espejo, Jose L. Zafra, Miriam Peña-Alvarez, Sarah N. Spisak, Kotaro Fukuda, Zheng Wei, Masayoshi Nakano*, Marina A. Petrukhina*, Juan Casado*, and Michael M. Haley*
        A Biradical Balancing Act: Redox Amphoterism in a Diindenoanthracene Derivative Results from Quinoidal Acceptor and Aromatic Donor Motifs
        J.Am.Chem.Soc., 138, 12648-12654 (2016), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b07882(Selected as JACS Spotlights)
         
      15. Shabbir Muhammad*, Masayoshi Nakano*, Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Ahmad Irfan, Aijaz R Chaudhry, Ryohei Kishi,   Soichi Ito, Kyohei Yoneda and Kotaro Fukuda  
        The Role of Singlet Diradical Character in Carbon Nanomaterials: a Novel Hot Spot for Efficient Nonlinear Optical Materials
        Nanoscale, 8, 17998-18020 (2016), DOI: 10.1039/C6NR06097H(Inside Back Cover)
         
      16. Soichi Ito, Takanori Nagami, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Diradical Character-Based Design for Singlet Fission of Bisanthene Derivatives: Aromatic-Ring Attachment and π-Plane Twisting
        J.Phys.Chem.Lett., 7, 3925–3930 (2016)  DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01885
         
      17. Masayoshi Nakano*, Soichi Ito, Takanori Nagami, Yasutaka Kitagawa, and Takashi Kubo
        Quantum Master Equation Approach to Singlet Fission Dynamics of Realistic/Artificial Pentacene Dimer Models:Relative Relaxation Factor Analysis
        J.Phys.Chem.C, 120, 22803-22815 (2016), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06402
         
      18. Toru Saito, Yasutaka Kitagawa, and Yu Takano
        A Reparameterization of PM6 Applied to Organic Diradical Molecules
        J.Phys.Chem.A, 120, 8750-8760(2016), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b08530
         
      19. H. Matsui, M. Nakano*, B. Champagne
        Theoretical Study on the Spin State and Open-Shell Character Dependences of the Second Hyperpolarizability in Hydrogen Chain Models
        Phys.Rev.A, 2016, 94, 042515-1-7.  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.94.042515
         
      20. H. Matsui, T. Nagami, S. Takamuku, S. Ito, Y. Kitagawa, M. Nakano*
        Theoretical Study on the Second Hyperpolarizailities of One-Dimensional Systems Composed of Carbon and Silicon π-Structures
        Molecules, 2016, 21, 1540-1-8. doi:10.3390/molecules21111540
         
         

2015

      1. Hiroshi Matsui, Kotaro Fukuda, Shota Takamuku, Akira Sekiguchi, Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical Study on the Relationship between Diradical Character and Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Four-Membered-Ring Diradicals Involving Heavy Main-Group Elements
        Chem. Eur. J., 21, 2157–2164 (2015).  Jan. 2015.  DOI: 10.1002/chem.201404592.  [LINK to Wiley HP]

      2. Soichi Ito, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Theoretical Molecular Design of Heteroacenes for Singlet Fission: Tuning the Diradical Character by Modifying π-Conjugation Length and Aromaticity
        J. Phys. Chem. C, 119, 148–157 (2015) Jan. 2015.  DOI: 10.1021/jp5103737.  [LINK to ACS HP]

      3. Kotaro Fukuda, Takeshi Nozawa, Hiroko Yotsuyanagi, Masaaki Ichinohe, Akira Sekiguchi Masayoshi Nakano*
        Theoretical Study on the Enhancement of the Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Si-, Ge-Disubstituted Quinodimethanes: Synergy Effects of Open-Shell Nature and Intramolecular Charge Transfer

        J. Phys. Chem. C119, 1188–1193 (2015).  Jan. 2015.  DOI: 10.1021/jp511521m.  [LINK to ACS HP]

      4. Takeshi Baba,* Mauro Boero, Katsumasa Kamiya, Hiroyuki Ando, Seiji Negoro, Masayoshi Nakano, Yasuteru Shigeta*
        Unraveling the degradation of artificial amide bonds in nylon oligomer hydrolase: from induced-fit to acylation processes
        Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 4492-4504 (2015).  Jan. 2015. DOI: 10.1039/C4CP04419C.  [LINK to RSC HP]

      5. Toru Matsui, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Mitsutaka Okumura, Yasuteru Shigeta
        Accurate Standard Hydrogen Electrode Potential and Applications to the Redox Potentials of Vitamin C and NAD/NADH
        J. Phys. Chem. A 119, 369-376 (2015).  Jan. 2015.  DOI: 10.1021/jp508308y.  [LINK to ACS HP]

      6. Kanako Nakamae, Yukie Takemura, Bunsho Kure, Takayuki Nakajima, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Tomoaki Tanase
        Self-Alignment of Low-Valent Octanuclear Palladium Atoms
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 1016-1021 (2015).  Jan. 2015.  DOI: 10.1002/anie.201409511.  [LINK to Wiley HP]

      7. Shunpei Nobusue, Hirokazu Miyoshi, Akihiro Shimizu, Ichiro Hisaki, Kotaro Fukuda, Masayoshi Nakano, Yoshito Tobe
        Tetracyclopenta[def,jkl,pqr,vwx]tetraphenylene: A Potential Tetraradicaloid Hydrocarbon
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 2090–2094 (2015).  Feb. 2015. (Very Important Paper, Inside Cover Article) DOI: 10.1002/anie.201410791 [LINK to Wiley HP]

      8. Muhammad SHABBIR, Soichi Ito, Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Kyohei Yoneda, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Mohid Shkir, Ahmad Irfan, Aijaz R Chaudhry, Salem AlFaify, Abul Kalam, Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi
        Diradical Character and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Buckyferrocenes: Focusing the Use of Suitably Modified Fullerene Fragments
        Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.17, 5805-5816 (2015).  Jan. 2015.  DOI: 10.1039/C4CP05175K. [LINK to RSC HP]

      9. Masayoshi Nakano*, Takuya Minami, Hitoshi Fukui, Kyohei Yoneda, Yasuteru Shigeta, Ryohei Kishi, Benoit Champagne, and Edith Botek
        Approximate Spin Projected Spin-Unrestricted Density Functional Theory Method: Application to Diradical Character Dependences of Second Hyperpolarizabilities
        ICCMSE2010, AIP conference proceedings, 1642, 30-34 (2015).  Jan. 2015.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4906627

      10. Hitoshi Fukui*, Edith Botek, Benoit Champagne, Yasuteru Shigeta, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Relationship between Second Hyperpolarizability and Diradical Character in Open-Shell Singlet Metal−Metal Multiply Bonded Systems
        ICCMSE2010, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1642, 245-248 (2015).  Jan. 2015.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4906663

      11. Takuya Minami*, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Theoretical Study on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Molecular Aggregate Models Using Quantum Liouville Equation Method
        ICCMSE2010, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1642, 473-476 (2015).  Jan. 2015.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4906723

      12. Masayoshi Nakano*, Takuya Minami, Hitoshi Fukui, Kyohei Yoneda, Yasuteru Shigeta, Benoit Champagne, Edith Botek, Koji Ohta, Kenji Kamada, and Takashi Kubo
        Static Electric Field Effect on Third-Order Nonlinear Optical (NLO) Properties of Singlet Diradical Molecules: Toward the Realization of an Electric Field Induced Open-Shell NLO Switch
        ICCMSE2010, AIP conference proceedings, 1642, 477-480 (2015).  Jan. 2015.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4906724

      13. Ryohei Kishi, Hitoshi Fujii, Takuya Minami, Yasuteru Shigeta, and Masayoshi Nakano
        Ab Initio Molecular Orbital-Configuration Interaction Based Quantum Master Equation (MOQME) Approach to the Dynamic First Hyperpolarizabilities of Asymmetric π-Conjugated Systems
        ICCMSE2010, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1642, 530-534 (2015).  Jan. 2015.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4906735

      14. Katsuki Okuno, Yasuteru Shigeta, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Theoretical design of solvatochromism switching by photochromic reactions using donor–acceptor disubstituted diarylethene derivatives with oxidized thiophene rings
        Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.17, 6484-6494 (2015).  Feb. 2015.  DOI: 10.1039/C4CP05946H.  [LINK to RSC HP]

      15. Masayoshi Nakano*, Benoît Champagne
        Diradical character dependence of third-harmonic generation spectra in open-shell singlet systems
        Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 134, 23-1-9 (2015). Feb. 2015. DOI 10.1007/s00214-015-1618-6.  [LINK to Springer HP] 

      16. Ryota Sakamoto, Ken Hoshiko, Qian Liu, Toshiki Yagi, Tatsuhiro Nagayama, Shinpei Kusaka, Mizuho Tsuchiya, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Wai-Yeung Wong, Hiroshi Nishihara
        A photofunctional bottom-up bis(dipyrrinato)zinc(II) complex nanosheet
        Nature Communications, 6, Article number: 6713 (2015).  April 2015. DOI:10.1038/ncomms7713.  [LINK to Nature HP]

      17. Minoru Mitsumi,* Kazunari Ezaki, Yuuki Komatsu, Koshiro Toriumi, Tatsuya Miyatou, Motohiro Mizuno,* Nobuaki Azuma, Yuji Miyazaki,* Motohiro Nakano, Yasutaka Kitagawa,* Takayasu Hanashima, Ryoji Kiyanagi, Takashi Ohhara,* and Kazuhiro Nakasuji
        Proton Order–Disorder Phenomena in a Hydrogen-Bonded Rhodium–η5-Semiquinone Complex: A Possible Dielectric Response Mechanism
        Chem. Eur. J., 21, 9682-9696 (2015).  June 2015.  DOI: 10.1002/chem.201500796.  [LINK to Wiley HP]

      18. Zebing Zeng, Sangsu Lee, Minjung Son, Kotaro Fukuda, Paula Mayorga Burrezo, Xiaojian Zhu, Qingbiao Qi, Run-Wei Li, Juan T. López Navarrete, Jun Ding,* Juan Casado,* Masayoshi Nakano,* Dongho Kim,* and Jishan Wu*
        Push-Pull Type Oligo(N-annulated Perylene)quinodimethanes: Chain Length and Solvent Dependent Ground States and Physical Properties
        J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 8572-8583, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b04156.  [LINK to ACS HP]


      19. Yasutaka Kitagawa,  Mizuki Asaoka,  Koji Miyagi,  Toru Matsui,  Masayuki Nihei,  Hiroshi Oshio,  Mitsutaka Okumura and  Masayoshi Nakano
        DFT and TD-DFT studies of electronic structures and one-electron excitation states of a cyanide-bridged molecular square complex
        Inorg. Chem. Front., 2, 771-779 (2015).  July 2015. DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00091B. [LINK to RSC HP]

      20. Masayoshi Nakano, Benoit Champagne
        Theoretical Design of Open-Shell Singlet Molecular Systems for Nonlinear Optics
        J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (Perspective Review, Cover Article), 6, 3236-3256 (2015).  August 2015.  DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00956.  [LINK to ACS HP]

      21. Kotaro Fukuda, Takanori Nagami, Jun-ya Fujiyoshi, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Interplay between Open-Shell Character, Aromaticity, and Second Hyperpolarizabilities in Indenofluorenes
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 119, 10620–10627 (2015). October 6, 2015. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b08520. [LINK to ACS HP] 

      22. Shota Takamuku, Yasutaka, Kitagawa, Takanori Nagami, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Theoretical study on the second hyperpolarizabilities of one-dimensional heteronuclear transition-metal–metal bondedsystems: Metal alignment effects
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 640, pp 165–171 (2015), October 21, 2015, DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2015.10.011. [Link to ScienceDirect HP]

      23. Soichi Ito, Takanori Nagami, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Density Analysis of Intra- and Intermolecular Vibronic Couplings toward Bath Engineering for Singlet Fission
        J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 6, 4972–4977 (2015), December 1, 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02249 [Link to ACS HP]

2014

      1. Xabier Lopez, Mario Piris, Masayoshi Nakano, Benoit Champagne
        Natural Orbital Functional Calculations of Molecular Polarizabilities and Second Hyperpolarizabilities. The Hydrogen Molecule as a Test Case
        J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 47, 015101-1-6 (2014). Jan, 2014. DOI:10.1088/0953-4075/47/1/015101  [LINK to IOPscience HP]

      2. Kyohei Yoneda, Hiroshi Matsui, Kotaro Fukuda, Shota Takamuku, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano
        Open-shell characters and second hyperpolarizabilities for hexagonal graphene nanoflakes including boron nitride domains
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 595-596, 220-225 (2014).   DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2014.02.010  [LINK to ScienceDirect HP]

      3. Takeshi Baba, Toru Matsui, Katsumasa Kamiya, Masayoshi Nakano and Yasuteru Shigeta*
        A density functional study on pKa of small polyprotic molecules
        Int. J. Quantum. Chem., 114, 1128-1134 (2014). Feb. 2014. DOI: 10.1002/qua.24631 [Link to Wiley HP]

      4. Akihito Konishi, Yasukazu Hirao, Hiroyuki Kurata, Takashi Kubo, Masayoshi Nakano, Kenji Kamada
        Anthenes: model systems for understanding the edge state of graphene nanoribbons
        Pure and Applied Chemistry, 86, 497-505 (2014). March 2014. DOI: 10.1515/pac-2013-0811.  [LINK to DE GRUYTER HP]

      5. Takeshi Baba*, Ryuhei Harada, Masayoshi Nakano and Yasuteru Shigeta*
        On the induced-fit mechanism of substrate-enzyme binding structures of nylon-oligomer hydrolase
        J. Comput. Chem., 16, 1240-1247 (2014).  July 2014. DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23614.  [LINK to Wiley HP]

      6. Kotaro Fukuda and Masayoshi Nakano
        Intramolecular Charge Transfer Effects on the Diradical Character and Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Open-Shell Singlet Donor–π–Donor Systems
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 118, 3463-3471 (2014).  April 2014. DOI: 10.1021/jp412634q  [LINK to ACS HP]

      7. Taishi Yamada, Shota Takamuku, Hiroshi Matsui, Benoit Champagne, Masayoshi Nakano
        Axial ligand effects on the diradical characters and second hyperpolarizabilities of open-shell singlet transition-metal dinuclear complexes
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 608, 68-73 (2014). July 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2014.05.064 [LINK to Sciencedirect HP] (Editor's Choice)

      8. Kyohei Yoneda, Masayoshi Nakano, Kotaro Fukuda, Hiroshi Matsui, Shota Takamuku, Yuta Hirosaki, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Benoît Champagne
        Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of One-Dimensional Open-Shell Molecular Aggregates Composed of Phenalenyl Radicals
        Chem.-Eur. J., 35, 11129-11136 (2014).  August 2014. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201402197. [LINK to Wiley HP]

      9. Hitoshi Fukui, Shota Takamuku, Taishi Yamada, Kotaro Fukuda, Taku Takebayashi, Yasuteru Shigeta, Ryohei Kishi, Benoît Champagne, Masayoshi Nakano
        Open-Shell Character and Second Hyperpolarizabilities of One-Dimensional Chromium(II) Chains: Size Dependence and Bond-Length Alternation Effect
        Inorg. Chem., 53, 8700-8707 (2014).  July 2014. DOI: 10.1021/ic501334p. [LINK to ACS HP]

      10. Ryota Nakamura, Yasuteru Shigeta*, Katsuki Okuno, Miki Hasegawa, Mayuko Fukushima, Shuichi Suzuki, Masatoshi Kozaki, Keiji Okada, Masayoshi Nakano
        Substitution effects on optical properties of iminonitroxide- substituted iminonitroxide diradical
        Mol. Phys., 113, 267-273 (2014).  Aug. 2014. DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2014.937777 [LINK to Taylor & Francis Online page]

      11. Hiroyuki Ando, Yasuteru Shigeta*, Takeshi Baba, Chiduru Watanabe, Yoshio Okiyama, Yuji Mochizuki, Masayoshi Nakano
        Hydration effects on enzyme–substrate complex of nylon oligomer hydrolase: inter-fragment interaction energy study by the fragment molecular orbital method
        Mol. Phys., 113, 319-326 (2014).  Aug. 2014. DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2014.941311 [LINK to Taylor & Francis Online page]

      12. Ryohei Kishi, Yusuke Murata, Michika Saito, Keisuke Morita, Manabu Abe, Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical Study on Diradical Characters and Nonlinear Optical Properties of 1,3-Diradical Compounds
        J. Phys. Chem. A118, 10837-10848 (2014).  Oct. 2014.  DOI: 10.1021/jp508657s.  [LINK to ACS HP]


2013

      1. Takuya Minami, Soichi Ito, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Functional dependence of excitation energy for pentacene/C60 model complex in the nonempirically tuned long-range corrected density functional theory
        Int. J. Quantum Chem., 113, 252-256 (2013).  Jan, 2013.  DOI: 10.1002/qua.24023.  [LINK to Wiley HP]

      2. Yasuteru Shigeta*, Tomoya Inui, Takeshi Baba, Katsuki Okuno, Hiroyuki Kuwabara, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano
        Qantal cumulant mechanics and dynamics for multidimensional quantum many-body clusters
        Int. J. Quantum Chem., 113, 348-355 (2013). Jan, 2013.  DOI: 10.1002/qua.24052.  [LINK to Wiley HP]

      3. Shabbir Muhammad, Takuya Minami, Hitoshi Fukui, Kyohei Yoneda, Shu Minamide, Ryohei Kishi, Yasuteru Shigeta, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Comparative study of diradical characters and third-order nonlinear optical properties of linear/cyclic acenes versus phenylenes
        Int. J. Quantum Chem.113, 592-598 (2013). Jan, 2013. DOI: 10.1002/qua.24032.  [LINK to Wiley HP]

      4. Masayoshi Nakano*, Ryohei Kishi, Hitoshi Fukui, Takuya Minami, Kyohei Yoneda, Shu Minamide, Yudai Inoue, Taishi Yamada, Soichi Ito, Shabbir Muhammad, Yasuteru Shigeta, Takashi Kubo, Benoît Champagne
        Diradicalology in third-order nonlinear optical systems: Second hyperpolarizabilities of acetylene-linked phenalenyl-based superpolyenes
        Int. J. Quantum Chem.113, 585-591 (2013). Jan, 2013.  DOI: 10.1002/qua.24035.  [LINK to Wiley HP]

      5. Kyohei Yoneda, Shu Minamide, Taishi Yamada, Soichi Ito, Takuya Minami, Ryohei Kishi, Yasuteru Shigeta, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Antidot effects on the open-shell characters and second hyperpolarizabilities of rectangular graphene nanoflakes
        Int. J. Quantum Chem.113, 605-611 (2013). Jan, 2013.  DOI: 10.1002/qua.24089.  [LINK to Wiley HP]

      6. Kenji Kamada*, Shin-ichi Fuku-en, Shu Minamide, Koji Ohta, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano, Hiroyuki Matsuzaki, Hiroshi Okamoto, Hiroyuki Higashikawa, Katsuya Inoue, Satoshi Kojima, and Yohsuke Yamamoto*
        Impact of Diradical Character on Two-Photon Absorption: Bis(acridine) Dimers Synthesized from an Allenic Precursor
        J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 232-241 (2013). Jan, 2013.  DOI: 10.1021/ja308396a [LINK to ACS HP]

      7. Shabbir Muhammad*, Kotaro Fukuda, Takuya Minami, Ryohei Kishi, Yasuteru Shigeta,  Masayoshi Nakano
        Interplay between the Diradical Character and Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties in Fullerene Systems
        Chem. Eur. J.19, 1677–1685 (2013). Jan, 2013.  DOI: 10.1002/chem.201203463 [LINK to Wiley HP]

      8. Akihito Konishi, Yasukazu Hirao, Kouzou Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Kurata, Ryohei Kishi, Yasuteru Shigeta, Masayoshi Nakano, Kazuya Tokunaga, Kenji Kamada, and Takashi Kubo*
        Synthesis and Characterization of Quarteranthene: Elucidating the Characteristics of the Edge State of Graphene Nanoribbons at the Molecular Level
        J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 1430-1437 (2013). Jan, 2013.  DOI: 10.1021/ja309599m [LINK to ACS HP]

      9. Takuya Minami, Masayoshi Nakano
        Quantum Master Equation Study of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Dipole-Coupled Dimer Models
        Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, pp 109-120, Chapter 5, in Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 26, K. Nishikawa, J. Maruani, E. J. Brändas, G. Delgado-Barrio, P. Piecuch, (Eds.), Springer (2013).  Jan, 2013.  [LINK to Springer HP]

      10. Takuya Minami*, Soichi Ito, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Signature of Singlet Open-Shell Character on the Optically Allowed Singlet Excitation Energy and Singlet–Triplet Energy Gap
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 117, 2000-2006 (2013).  Mar, 2013.  DOI: 10.1021/jp311965k [LINK to ACS HP]

      11. Akihiro Shimizu, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano, Daisuke Shiomi, Kazunobu Sato, Takeji Takui, Ichiro Hisaki, Mikiji Miyata, Yoshito Tobe
        Indeno[2,1-b]fluorene: A 20-π-Electron Hydrocarbon with Very Low-Energy Light Absorption
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52, 6076-6079 (2013). May, 2013. (back cover article) DOI: 10.1002/anie.201302091 [LINK to Wily HP]

      12. Yudai Inoue, Taishi Yamada, Benoît Champagne, Masayoshi Nakano
        Equatorial ligand effects on the diradical character dependence of the second hyperpolarizabilities of open-shell singlet transition-metal dinuclear complexes
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 570, 75-79 (2013). May 2013.  DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2013.03.030. [LINK to Science direct HP]

      13. Marc de Wergifosse, Frédéric Wautelet, Benoît Champagne, Ryohei Kishi, Kotaro Fukuda, Hiroshi Matsui, Masayoshi Nakano
        Challenging Compounds for Calculating Hyperpolarizabilities: p-Quinodimethane Derivatives
        J. Phys. Chem. A., 117, 4709-4715 (2013). May 2013. DOI: 10.1021/jp403163z. [LINK to ACS HP]

      14. Takuya Minami, Soichi Ito, Masayoshi Nakano
        Fundamental of Diradical-Character-Based Molecular Design for Singlet Fission
        J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 4, 2133-2137 (2013). June 2013. DOI: 10.1021/jz400931b [LINK to ACS HP]

      15. Taishi Yamada, Yudai Inoue, Benoît Champagne, Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical study on the diradical characters and third-order nonlinear optical properties of transition-metal heterodinuclear systems
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 579, 73-77 (2013). July 2013. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2013.05.072.  [LINK to Sciencedirect HP]

      16. Masayoshi Nakano, and Benoît Champagne
        Diradical character dependences of the first and second hyperpolarizabilities of asymmetric open-shell singlet systems
        J. Chem. Phys., 138, 244306-1-13 (2013). June 2013. DOI: 10.1063/1.4810860   [LINK to AIP HP]

      17. Katsuki Okuno, Yasuteru Shigeta, Ryohei Kishi, and Masayoshi Nakano
        Photochromic Switching of Diradical Character: Design of Efficient Nonlinear Optical Switches
        J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 4, 2418–2422 (2013). July 2013. DOI: 10.1021/jz401228c.  [LINK to ACS HP]

      18. Muhammad Shabbir, Hongliang Xu, Zhong-Min Su, Kotaro Fukuda, Ryohei Kishi, Yasuteru Shigeta and Masayoshi Nakano
        New Type of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid NLO-Phores with Large Off-Diagonal First Hyperpolarizability Tensors: A Two-Dimensional Approach
        Dalton Trans., 42, 15053-15062 (2013).  Aug. 2013. DOI: 10.1039/C3DT51331A. [LINK to RSC HP]

      19. Tomoya Inui, Yasuteru Shigeta, Katsuki Okuno,Takeshi Baba, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano
        Finite-field method with unbiased polarizable continuum model for evaluation of the second hyperpolarizability of an open-shell singlet molecule in solvents
        J. Comput. Chem., 34, 2345–2352 (2013). Aug. 2013. DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23395 [LINK to Wily HP]

      20. Hiroshi Matsui, Kotaro Fukuda, Yuta Hirosaki, Shota Takamuku, Benoît Champagne, Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical study on the diradical characters and third-order nonlinear optical properties of cyclic thiazyl diradical compounds
        Chem. Phys. Lett.585, 112–116 (2013). Oct. 2013. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2013.08.087 [LINK to Sciencedirect HP]

      21. Katsuki Okuno, Yasuteru Shigeta, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano
        Non-empirical tuning of CAM-B3LYP functional in time-dependent density functional theory for excitation energies of diarylethene derivatives
        Chem. Phys. Lett.585, 201–206 (2013). Oct. 2013. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2013.09.013 [LINK to Sciencedirect HP]

      22. Ryohei Kishi, Misha Dennis, Kotaro Fukuda, Yusuke Murata, Keisuke Morita, Hideki Uenaka, and Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical Study on the Electronic Structure and Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Open-Shell Quinoidal Oligothiophenes
        J. Phys. Chem. C, 117, 21498-21508 (2013).  DOI: 10.1021/jp407482h [LINK to ACS HP]




2012

      1. Masayoshi Nakano, Takuya Minami, Hitoshi Fukui, Ryohei Kishi, Yasuteru Shigeta, and Benoît Champagne
        Full configuration interaction calculations of the second hyperpolarizabilities of the H4 model compound: Summation- over-states analysis and interplay with diradical characters
        J. Chem. Phys. 136, 024315-1-7 (2012). Jan, 2012. DOI: 10.1063/1.3675684 [LINK to AIP HP]

      2. Hitoshi Fukui, Yudai Inoue, Ryohei Kishi, Yasuteru Shigeta, Benoît Champagne, Masayoshi Nakano
        Tuned long-range corrected density functional theory method for evaluating the second hyperpolarizabilities of open-shell singlet metal-metal bonded systems
        Chem. Phys. Lett. 523, 60-64 (2012). Jan, 2012. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2011.12.033 [LINK to Sciencedirect HP]

      3. Takuya Minami* and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Diradical Character View of Singlet Fission
        J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3, 145-150 (2012). Jan, 2012. DOI: 10.1021/jz2015346 [LINK to ACS HP]  [LINK to Slideshare HP]

      4. Hitoshi Fukui, Masayoshi Nakano, Benoît Champagne
        Enhancement of the second hyperpolarizability by dσ electrons in one-dimensional tetrametallic transition-metal systems
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 527, 11-15 (2012).  Feb, 2012. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2012.01.020 [LINK to Sciencedirect HP]

      5. Shabbir Muhammad, Takuya Minami, Hitoshi Fukui, Kyohei Yoneda, Ryohei Kishi, Yasuteru Shigeta, Masayoshi Nakano
        Halide Ion Complexes of Decaborane (B10H14) and their Derivatives: Non-Covalent Charge Transfer Effect on Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 116, 1417-1424 (2012).  Jan, 2012.  DOI: 10.1021/jp209385b [LINK to ACS HP]

      6. Ryohei Kishi*, Hiroaki Fujii, Shingo Kishimoto, Yusuke Murata, Soichi Ito, Katsuki Okuno, Yasuteru Shigeta, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Development of Calculation and Analysis Methods for the Dynamic First Hyperpolarizability Based on the Ab Initio Molecular Orbital – Quantum Master Equation Method
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 116, 4371-4380 (2012).  Apr, 2012. DOI: 10.1021/jp301213z [LINK to ACS HP]

      7. Katsuki Okuno, Yasuteru Shigeta, Ryohei Kishi, Hiroshi Miyasaka, Masayoshi Nakano
        Tuned CAM-B3LYP functional in the time-dependent density functional theory scheme for excitation energies and properties of diarylethene derivatives
        Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 235, 29-34 (2012).  May, 2012.  DOI: j.jphotochem.2012.03.003 [LINK to Sciencedirect HP]

      8. Hitoshi Fukui*, Yudai Inoue, Taishi Yamada, Soichi Ito, Yasuteru Shigeta, Ryohei Kishi, Benoît Champagne, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Enhancement of the Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties in Open-Shell Singlet Transition-Metal Dinuclear Systems: Effects of the Group, of the Period, and of the Charge of the Metal Atom
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 116, 5501-5509 (2012).  May, 2012.  DOI: 10.1021/jp303618y [LINK to ACS HP]

      9. Kyohei Yoneda, Masayoshi Nakano*, Yudai Inoue, Tomoya Inui, Kotaro Fukuda, and Yasuteru Shigeta, Takashi Kubo, Benoît Champagne
        Impact of Antidot Structure on the Multiradical Characters, Aromaticities, and Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Hexagonal Graphene Nanoflakes
        J. Phys. Chem. C, 116, 17787-17795 (2012).  Aug, 2012.  DOI: 10.1021/jp305171k [LINK to ACS HP]

      10. Soichi Ito, Takuya Minami, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Diradical Character Based Design for Singlet Fission of Condensed-Ring Systems with 4nπ Electrons
        J. Phys. Chem. C, 116, 19729-19736 (2012).  Aug, 2012.  DOI: 10.1021/jp3072684 [LINK to ACS HP]

      11. Takuya Minami*, Soichi Ito, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Theoretical Study of Singlet Fission in Oligorylenes
        J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 3, 2719-2723 (2012).  Sep, 2012.  DOI: 10.1021/jz3011749
        [LINK to ACS HP] [Link to ACS LiveSlides]

      12. Kyohei Yoneda, Masayoshi Nakano*, Kotaro Fukuda, and Benoît Champagne
        The Odd Electron Density Is the Guide toward Achieving Organic Molecules with Gigantic Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Responses
        J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 3, 3338-3342 (2012).   Nov, 2012.  DOI: 10.1021/jz301573j [LINK to ACS HP]

      13. Masayoshi Nakano*, Kyohei Yoneda, Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, and Edith Botek
        One- and Two-Photon Absorptions in Open-Shell Singlet Systems
        AIP Conf. Proc., 1504, 136-142 (2012). Dec, 2012. DOI: 10.1063/1.4771708 [LINK to AIP HP]

      14. Masayoshi Nakano*, Kyohei Yoneda, Hiroshi Nagai, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, and Edith Botek
        Spin Polarization and Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Open-Shell Singlet Graphene Nanoflakes
        AIP Conf. Proc., 1504, 392-398 (2012).  Dec, 2012.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4771732 [LINK to AIP HP]

      15. Akihiro Shimizu, Yasukazu Hirao, Takashi Kubo,*, Masayoshi Nakano, Edith Botek, Benoît Champagne
        Theoretical Consideration of Singlet Open-Shell Character of Polyperiacenes Using Clar’s Aromatic Sextet Valence Bond Model and Quantum Chemical Calculations
        AIP Conf. Proc., 1504, 399-405 (2012).  Dec, 2012.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4771733 [LINK to AIP HP]

      16. Ryohei Kishi*, Sean Bonness, Kyohei Yoneda, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Takao Tsuneda and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Long-Range-Corrected UDFT Study on Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Open-Shell Singlet Systems
        AIP Conf. Proc., 1504, 651-654 (2012). Dec, 2012.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4771779 [LINK to AIP HP]

      17. Takuya Minami, Kyohei Yoneda, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Oscillatory and Rotatory Exciton Recurrence Motions in Double-Ring Molecular Aggregates Controlled by Two- Mode Circular-Polarized Laser Field
        AIP Conf. Proc., 1504, 691-694 (2012). Dec, 2012.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4771789 [LINK to AIP HP]

      18. Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Akihiro Shimizu, Takashi Kubo*, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta*, Ryohei Kishi, Hitoshi Fukui, Hideaki Takahashi, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Theoretical Aspects on the Evaluation and Interpretation of the Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Diradical Compounds
        AIP Conf. Proc., 1504, 844-847 (2012). Dec, 2012.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4771826 [LINK to AIP HP]

      19. Hitoshi Fukui, Kyohei Yoneda, Edith Botek, Benoît Champagne, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Singlet Diradical Compounds and their Radical Ions
        AIP Conf. Proc., 1504, 852-855 (2012). Dec, 2012.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4771828 [LINK to AIP HP]

      20. Ryohei Kishi,* Takuya Minami, Kyohei Yoneda, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Broken-Symmetry MO-CI Quantum Master Equation Approach to Exciton Dynamics in Open-Shell Singlet Systems
        AIP Conf. Proc., 1504, 875-878 (2012). Dec, 2012.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4771834 [LINK to AIP HP]

      21. Takashi Kubo*, Mitsuya Aoba, Akihiro Shimizu, Yasukazu Hirao, Kozo Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Kurata, Masayoshi Nakano
        Singlet Open-Shell Character of Conjugated Kekulé Molecules
        AIP Conf. Proc., 1504, 883-886 (2012). Dec, 2012.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4771836 [LINK to AIP HP]

      22. Hideaki Takahashi*, Kazuki Kubota, Hitoshi Fukui, Sean Bonness, Kyohei Yoneda, Ryohei Kishi, Takashi Kubo*, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, and Masayoshi Nakano*
        Electron Donor Solvent Effects on the (Hyper) Polarizabilities of a Solute Presenting Singlet Diradical Character
        AIP Conf. Proc., 1504, 899-902 (2012). Dec, 2012.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4771840 [LINK to AIP HP]


2011

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      1. H. Fukui, Y. Shigeta, M. Nakano, T. Kubo, K. Kamada, K. Ohta, B. Champagne, E. Botek
        Enhancement of Second Hyperpolarizabilities in Open-Shell Singlet Slipped-Stack Dimers Composed of Square Planar Nickel Complexes Involving o-Semiquinonato Type Ligands
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 115, 1117–1124 (2011) Feb

      2. H. Takahashi, Y. Iwata, R. Kishi, M. Nakano
        The QM/MM-ER Studies for the Origin of the Antioxidative Properties of MCI-186 in Aqueous Solutions
        Int. J. Quant. Chem., 111, 1748–1762 (2011). Mar. 2011

      3. Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano
        Quantum Master Equation Method Based on the Broken-Symmetry Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory: Application to Dynamic Polarizability of Open-Shell Molecular Systems
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 115, 3565–3575 (2011) Apr. 18

      4. K. Yoneda, M. Nakano,* H. Fukui, T. Minami, Y. Shigeta, T. Kubo, E. Botek, B. Champagne
        Open-Shell Characters and Second Hyperpolarizabilities of One-Dimensional Graphene Nanoflakes Composed of Trigonal Graphene Units
        ChemPhysChem, 12, 1697–1707 (2011) June

      5. H. Takahashi, K. Maruyama, Y. Karino, A. Morita, M. Nakano, P. Jungwirth, N. Matubayasi
        Energetic Origin of Proton Affinity to the Air/Water Interface
        J. Phys. Chem. B, 115, 4745–4751 (2011).  April 26


      6. Akihiro Shimizu, Masayoshi Nakano, Yasukazu Hirao, and Takashi Kubo
        Experimental consideration on covalent bonding interactions in stacks of singlet biradicals having Kekulé structures
        J. Phys. Org. Chem., 24, 876–882 (2010).


      7. M. Nakano*, T. Minami, K. Yoneda, S. Muhammad, R. Kishi, Y. Shigeta, T. Kubo, L. Rougier, B. Champagne, K. Kamada, and K. Ohta
        Giant Enhancement of the Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Open-Shell Singlet Polyaromatic Diphenalenyl Diradicaloids by an External Electric Field and Donor-Acceptor Substitution
        J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2, 1094-1098 (2011). April 20

      8. Shuto Motomura, Masayoshi Nakano,* Hitoshi Fukui, Kyohei Yoneda, Takashi Kubo, Raphaël Carion, and Benoît Champagne*
        Size dependences of the diradical character and the second hyperpolarizabilities in dicyclopenta-fused acenes: relationships with their aromaticity/antiaromaticity
        Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 13, 20575 – 20583 (2011).  Nov.

      9. Takuya Minami, Masayoshi Nakano, Frédéric Castet
        Nonempirically Tuned Long Range Corrected Density Functional Theory Study on Local and Charge-Transfer Excitation Energies in Pentacene/C60 Model Complex
        J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2, 1725–1730 (2011).Sep

      10. M. Nakano, R. Kishi, K. Yoneda, Y. Inoue, T. Inui, Y. Shigeta, T. Kubo, B. Champagne
        Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Open-Shell Supermolecular Systems Composed of Acetylene Linked Phenalenyl Radicals
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 115, 8767–8777 (2011) Aug.

      11. Hitoshi Fukui, Masayoshi Nakano, Yasuteru Shigeta, Benoît Champagne
        Origin of the Enhancement of the Second Hyperpolarizabilities in Open-Shell Singlet Transition Metal Systems with Metal−Metal Multiple Bonds
        J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2, 2063-2066 (2011). Sep.

      12. Masayoshi Nakano, Hitoshi Fukui, Takuya Minami, Kyohei Yoneda, Yasuteru Shigeta, Ryohei Kishi, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Takashi Kubo, Koji Ohta, Kenji Kamada
        (Hyper)polarizability density analysis for open-shell molecular systems based on natural orbitals and occupation numbers
        Theoret. Chem. Acc., 130, 711–724 (2011).

2010

      1. Ryohei Kishi, Sean Bonness, Kyohei Yoneda, Hideaki Takahashi, Masayoshi Nakano, Edith Botek, Benoit Champagne, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, and Takao Tsuneda
        Long-range corrected density functional theory study on static second hyperpolarizabilities of singlet diradical systems
        J. Chem. Phys., 132, 094107-1-11 (2010).

      2. Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Akihiro Shimizu, Takashi Kubo, Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi, Edith Botek, Benoit Champagne, Masayoshi Nakano
        Singlet Diradical Character from Experiment
        J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 1, 937-940 (2010).

      3. Takuya Minami, Kyohei Yoneda, Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi and Masayoshi Nakano
        Exciton Recurrence Motion in Double-Ring Molecular Aggregates Induced by Two-Mode Circular-Polarized Laser Field
        J. Phys. Chem. C, 114, 6067–6076 (2010).

      4. Hiroshi Nagai, Masayoshi Nakano, Kyohei Yoneda, Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi, Akihiro Shimizu, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Edith Botek, Benoit Champagne
        Signature of multiradical character in second hyperpolarizabilities of rectangular graphene nanoflakes
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 489, 212–218 (2010).

      5. Hideaki Takahashi, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano
        The Exchange-Energy Density Functional Based on the Modified Becke-Roussel Model
        J. Chem. Theory Comput., 6, 647–661 (2010).

      6. Sean Bonness, Hitoshi Fukui, Kyohei Yoneda, Ryohei Kishi, Benoit Champagne, Edith Botek, Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical investigation on the second hyperpolarizabilities of open-shell singlet systems by spin-unrestricted density functional theory with long-range correction: Range separating parameter dependence
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 493, 195–199 (2010).

      7. Akihito Konishi, Yasukazu Hirao, Masayoshi Nakano, Akihiro Shimizu, Edith Botek, Benoît Champagne, Daisuke Shiomi, Kazunobu Sato, Takeji Takui, Kouzou Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Kurata, and Takashi Kubo
        Synthesis and Characterization of Teranthene: A Singlet Biradical Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Having Kekulé Structures
        J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 11021-11023 (2010).

      8. Masayoshi Nakano, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Koji Ohta, Kenji Kamada, and Takashi Kubo
        Giant electric field effect on the second hyperpolarizability of symmetric singlet diradical molecules
        J. Chem. Phys., 133, 154302-1-15 (2010) Oct.

      9. Akihiro Shimizu, Takashi Kubo, Mikio Uruichi, Kyuya Yakushi, Masayoshi Nakano, Daisuke Shiomi, Kazunobu Sato, Takeji Takui, Yasukazu Hirao, Kouzou Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Kurata, Yasushi Morita, Kazuhiro Nakasuji
        Alternating Covalent Bonding Interactions in One-Dimensional Chain of Phenalenyl-Based Singlet Biradical Molecule Having Kekule Structures
        J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 14421–14428 (2010).

      10. Masayoshi Nakano, Takuya Minami, Hitoshi Fukui, Kyohei Yoneda, Yasuteru Shigeta, Ryohei Kishi, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek
        Approximate spin-projected spin-unrestricted density functional theory method: application to the diradical character dependences of the (hyper)polarizabilities in p-quinodimethane models
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 501, 140-145 (2010).

      11. M. Muraguchi, T. Endo, Y. Takada, Y. Sakurai, S. Nomura, K. Shiraishi, M. Ikeda, K. Makihara, S. Miyazaki, Y. Shigeta
        Importance of electronic state of two-dimensional electron gas for electron injection process in nano-electronic devices
        Physica E, 42, 2602-2605 (2010).

      12. Y. Nakanishi, T. Matsui, Y. Shigeta, Y. Kitagawa, T. Saito, Y. Kataoka, T. Kawakami, M. Okumura, K. Yamaguchi
        Sequence-Dependent Proton-Transfer Reaction in Stacked GC Pair III: The Influence of Proton Transfer to Conductivity
        Int. J. Quantum Chem., 110, 2221-2230 (2010).

2009

      1. Takuya Minami, Hitoshi Fukui, Hiroshi Nagai, Kyohei Yoneda, Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi, and Masayoshi Nakano
        Quantum Master Equation Approach to Exciton Recurrence Motion in Ring-Shaped Aggregate Complexes Induced by Linear- and Circular-Polarized Laser Fields
        J. Phys. Chem. C, 113, 3332-3338 (2009).

      2. Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano, Takuya Minami, Hitoshi Fukui, Hiroshi Nagai, Kyohei Yoneda, Hideaki Takahashi
        Theoretical Study on Exciton Recurrence Motion in Anthracene Dimer Using the Ab Initio MO – CI Based Quantum Master Equation Approach
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 113, 5455–5462 (2009)

      3. Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Hitoshi Fukui, Takuya Minami, Hiroshi Nagai, Kyohei Yoneda, Sean Bonness, and Hideaki Takahashi
        Theoretical study on open-chell nonlinear opitcal molecular systems and a devlopment of a novel computational scheme of exciton dynamics
        Int. J. Nanoscience, 8, Nos. 1&2 123–129 (2009)

      4. Kazuki Kubota, Hideaki Takahashi*, Hitoshi Fukui, Sean Bonness, Kyohei Yoneda, Ryohei Kishi, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Electron donor solvent effects on the (hyper)polarizabilities of a singlet diradical molecule involving a boron atom
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 477, 309-314 (2009) July; erratum 479 171 (2009)

      5. Hiroshi Nagai, Masayoshi Nakano, Kyohei Yoneda, Hitoshi Fukui, Takuya Minami, Sean Bonness, Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoit Champagne, Edith Botek
        Theoretical study on third-order nonlinear optical properties in hexagonal graphene nanoflakes: edge shape effect
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 477, 355-359 (2009)

      6. Hideaki Takahashi, Fumihiro Miki, Hajime Ohno, Ryohei Kishi, Suguru Ohta, Shin-ichi Furukawa, Masayoshi Nakano
        Hydration effects on the reaction with an open-shell transition state: QM/MM-ER study for the dehydration reaction of alcohol in hot water
        J Math Chem, 46, 781–794. (2009)

      7. Masayoshi Nakano*, Hitoshi Fukui, Hiroshi Nagai, Takuya Minami, Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi
        Third-order nonlinear optical properties of open-shell singlet molecular aggregates composed of diphenalenyl diradicals
        Synthetic Metals, 159, 2413-2415 (2009)

      8. Hitoshi Fukui*, Hiroshi Nagai, Ryohei Kishi, Takuya Minami, Hideaki Takahashi, Takashi Kubo, Masayoshi Nakano*
        Control of third-order nonlinear optical properties of singlet diradical square planar metal complexes involving o-semiquinonato type ligands
        Synthetic Metals, 159, 2416-2418 (2009)

      9. Masayoshi Nakano*, Kyohei Yoneda, Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Edith Botek, Benoît Champange
        Remarkable two-photon absorption in open-shell singlet systems
        J. Chem. Phys., 131, 114316-1-7 (2009)

      10. Kyohei Yoneda, Masayoshi Nakano,* Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi, Akihiro Shimizu, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek
        Third-order nonlinear optical properties of trigonal, rhombic and bow-tie graphene nanoflakes with strong structural dependence of diradical character
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 480, 278–283, (2009)

      11. Masayoshi Nakano*, Ryohei Kishi, Takuya Minami and Kyohei Yoneda
        Theoretical Study on Exciton Dynamics in Dendritic Systems: Exciton Recurrence and Migration
        Molecules, 14(9), 3700-3718 (2009)

      12. Ryohei Kishi*, Masayoshi Nakano*, Takuya Minami, Hitoshi Fukui, Hiroshi Nagai, Kyohei Yoneda, Hideaki Takahashi
        Ab initio MO-CI based quantum master equation approach: exciton dynamics of weakly and strongly coupled J-type aggregates
        Synthetic Metals, 159, 2194-2197 (2009).



2008

      1. Masayoshi Nakano, Akihito Takebe, Ryohei Kishi, Masahito Nate, Hideaki Takahashi, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek
        Theoretical study on the second hyperpolarizability of open-shell singlet one-dimensional systems with a charged defect
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 451, 111-115 (2008).

      2. Ryohei Kishi, Shin-ya Umezaki, Hitoshi Fukui, Takuya Minami, Kazuki Kubota, Hideaki Takahashi
        Cooperative effects in static polarizabilities and second hyperpolarizabilities of hydrogen-bonded 4-pyridones
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 454, 91-96 (2008).

      3. Masayoshi Nakano, Akihito Takebe, Ryohei Kishi, Hitoshi Fukui, Takuya Minami, Kazuki Kubota, Hideaki Takahashi, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek
        Intermolecular interaction effects on the second hyperpolarizability of open-shell singlet diphenalenyl radical dimer
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 454, 97-104 (2008).

      4. Hideaki Takahashi, Hajime Ohno, Toshihiko Yamauchi, Ryohei Kishi, Shin-ichi Furukawa, Masayoshi Nakano, and Nobuyuki Matubayasi
        Investigation of the dominant hydration structures among the ionic species in aqueous solution: Novel quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics simulations combined with the theory of energy representation
        J. Chem. Phys., 128, 064507-1-12 (2008).

      5. Hideaki Takahashi, Hajime Ohno, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano and Nobuyuki Matubayasi
        Computation of the reduction free energy of coenzyme in aqueous solution by the QM/MM-ER method
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 456, 176-180 (2008).

      6. Ryohei Kishi, Takuya Minami, Hitoshi Fukui, Hideaki Takahashi, Masayoshi Nakano
        Core molecule dependence of energy migration in phenylacetylene nanostar dendrimers: Ab initio molecular orbital-configuration interaction based quantum master equation study
        J. Chem. Phys., 128, 244306-1-8 (2008).

      7. Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Takuya Minami, Hitoshi Fukui, Hiroshi Nagai, Kyohei Yoneda, Hideaki Takahashi
        A novel dynamic exciton expression based on the ab initio MO CI based quantum master equation approach
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 460, 370-374 (2008).

      8. Hitoshi Fukui, Ryohei Kishi, Takuya Minami, Hiroshi Nagai, Hideaki Takahashi, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical Study on Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Singlet Diradical Square Planar Nickel Complexes Involving o-Semiquinonato Type Ligands
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 112, 8423-8429 (2008).

      9. Takuya Minami, Masayoshi Nakano, Hitoshi Fukui, Hiroshi Nagai, Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi
        Exciton dynamics of molecular aggregate systems composed of triangular lattice units: structural dependence of exciton migration and recurrence
        J. Phys. Chem. C, 112, 16675-16681 (2008).

      10. Hideaki Takahashi, Hajime Ohno, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano, and Nobuyuki Matubayasi
        Computation of the free energy change associated with one-electron reduction of coenzyme immersed in water: A novel approach within the framework of the quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical method combined with the theory of energy representation
        J. Chem. Phys., 129, 205103-1-14 (2008).

      11. Hideaki Takahahi
        A Quantum Chemical Approach to Biological Reaction with a Theory of Solutions
        Frontiers in Bioscience, 14, 1745-1760 (2008).

      12. Masayoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Nagai, Hitoshi Fukui, Kyohei Yoneda, Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi, Akihiro Shimizu, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek
        Theoretical study of third-order nonlinear optical properties in square nanographenes with open-shell singlet ground states
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 467, 120-125 (2008).

2007

      1. K. Kamada, K. Ohta, T. Kubo, A. Shimizu, Y. Morita, K. Nakasuji, R. Kishi, S. Ohta, S.-i. Furukawa, H. Takahashi, and M. Nakano
        Strong two-photon absorption of singlet diradical hydrocarbons
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 19, 3544-3546 (2007).

      2. Takumi Hori, Hideaki Takahashi, Shin-ichi Furukawa, Masayoshi Nakano, and Weitao Yang
        Computational Study on the Relative Acidity of Acetic Acid by the QM/MM Method Combined with the Theory of Energy Representation
        J. Phys. Chem. B, 111, 581-588 (2007).

      3. Hideaki Takahashi, Kohsuke Tanabe, Masataka Aketa, Ryohei Kishi, Shin-ichi Furukawa, and Masayoshi Nakano
        Novel quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical method combined with the theory of energy representation: Free energy calculation for the Beckmann rearrangement promoted by proton transfers in the supercritical water
        J. Chem. Phys., 126, 084508-1-10 (2007).

      4. S. Ohta, M. Nakano, T. Kubo, K. Kamada, K. Ohta, R. Kishi, N. Nakagawa, B. Champagne, E. Botek, A. Takebe, S. Umezaki, M. Nate, H. Takahashi, S. Furukawa, Y. Morita, K. Nakasuji, K. Yamaguchi
        Theoretical study on the second hyperpolarizabilities of phenalenyl radical systems involving acetylene and vinylene linkers: diradical character and spin multiplicity dependences
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 111, 3633-3641 (2007).

      5. M. Nakano, S. Ohta, K. Tokushima, R. Kishi, T. Kubo, K. Kamada, K. Ohta, B. Champagne, E. Botek, H. Takahashi
        First and second hyperpolarizabilities of donor-acceptor disubstituted diphenalenyl radical systems
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 443, 95-101 (2007).

      6. Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Suguru Ohta, Hideaki Takahashi, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Edith Botek, and Benoît Champagne
        Relationship between Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties and Magnetic Interactions in Open-Shell Systems: A New Paradigm for Nonlinear Optics
        Phys. Rev. Lett., 99, 033001 (2007).

      7. Masayoshi Nakano, Nozomi Nakagawa, Ryohei Kishi, Suguru Ohta, Masahito Nate, Hideaki Takahashi, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Yasushi Morita, Kazuhiro Nakasuji, Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Singlet Polycyclic Diphenalenyl Radicals: Effects of the Nature of the Central Heterocyclic Ring and Substitution to Diphenalenyl Rings
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 111, 9102-9110 (2007).

      8. R. Kishi, M. Nakano, S. Ohta, A. Takebe, M. Nate, H. Takahashi, T. Kubo, K. Kamada, K. Ohta, E. Botek, B. Champagne
        Finite-field spin-flip configuration interaction calculation of the second hyperpolarizabilities of singlet diradical systems
        J. Chem. Theory Comput., 3, 1699-1707 (2007).

      9. Suguru Ohta, Masayoshi Nakano, Masahito Nate, Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi
        Molecular orientation effects on two-photon absorption spectra of dimer systems
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 448, issues 1-3, 99-105 (2007).

      10. Naoki Aoyoma, Tsukasa Yoshihara, Shin-ichi Furukawa, Tomoshige Nitta, Hideaki Takahashi, Masayoshi Nakano
        Molecular simulation study on adsorption of methanol/water mixtures in mesoporous silicas modified pore surface silylation
        Fluid Phase Equilibria, 257, 212 (2007).

      11. Ken-ichiro Yonemori, Atsushi Takitani, Shin-ichi Furukawa, Tomoshige Nitta, Hideaki Takahashi, Masayoshi Nakano
        Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation study on permeation phenomena of LJ particles in slit-shaped membranes with periodic belt-like heterogeneous surfaces
        Fluid Phase Equilibria, 257, 190 (2007).

      12. T. Kubo, A. Shimizu, M. Uruichi, K. Yakushi, M. Nakano, D. Shiomi, K. Sato, T. Takui, Y. Morita, K. Nakasuji
        Singlet Biradical Character of Phenalenyl-based Kekulé Hydrocarbon with Naphthoquinoid Structure
        Org. Lett., 9, 81-84 (2007).

      13. Ryohei Kishi, Shin-ya Umezaki, Akihito Takebe, Masahito Nate, Hideaki Takahashi and Masayoshi Nakano
        Static polarizabilities (α) and second hyperpolarizabilities (γ) of one-dimensional hydrogen-bonded formamides
        Computing Letters, 3, 251-256, (2007).

      14. Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Akihito Takebe, Masahito Nate, Hideaki Takahashi, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, and Edith Botek
        Second hyperpolarizability of zethrenes
        Computing Letters, 3, 333-338 (2007).

      15. Hideaki Takahashi, Masahiro Kitaura, Ryohei Kishi, Suguru Ohta, Rika Okaji, Shin-ichi Furukawa and Masayoshi Nakano
        Theoretical Study on the Polarizabilities of Molecules in Solution by the Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Approach: Comparison with the Polarizable Continuum Model
        Computing Letters, 3, 441-448 (2007).

2006

      1. Masayoshi Nakano, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Ryohei Kishi, Suguru Ohta, Nozomi Nakagawa, Hideaki Takahashi, Shin-ichi Furukawa, Yasushi Morita, Kazuhiro Nakasuji
        Second hyperpolarizabilities of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons involving phenalenyl radical units
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 418, 142-147 (2006).

      2. K. Yamaguchi, M. Nakano, H. Nagao, M. Okumura, S. Yamanaka, T. Kawakami, S. Yamada, D. Yamaki, Y. Kitagawa, R. Takeda, H. Nitta
        N-band Hubbard models. III. Boson-fermion and interaction-boson models for high-Tc superconductivity
        Int. J. Quant. Chem., 106, 1052-1075 (2006).

      3. Suguru Ohta, Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Hideaki Takahashi, Shin-ichi Furukawa
        Monte Carlo wavefunction approach to the exciton dynamics of molecular aggregates with exciton-phonon coupling
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 419, 70-74 (2006).

      4. Takumi Hori, Hideaki Takahashi, Masayoshi Nakano, Tomoshige Nitta and Weitao Yang
        A QM/MM study combined with the theory of energy representation: Solvation free energies for anti/syn acetic acids in aqueous solution
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 419, 240-244 (2006).

      5. Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Nozomi Nakagawa, Suguru Ohta, Hideaki Takahashi and Shin-ichi Furukawa
        Intermolecular interaction effects on second hyperpolarizabilities of clusters including charged species
        Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE), 6, 211-222 (2006).

      6. 古川信一††・青山 直樹・西海 俊弘・新田 友茂・ 高橋 英明・中野雅由
        分子シミュレーションを用いた表面修飾メソポーラスシリカに対するメタノール/水混合ガスの吸着特性の研究
        化学工学論文集, 32(1), 18-24 (2006).

      7. Hiroya Nitta, Mitsuo Shoji, Masahiro Takahata, Masayoshi Nakano, Daisuke Yamaki, Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Quantum Dynamics of Exciton Recurrence Motion in Dendritic Molecular Aggregates
        Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 178, Issues 2-3, 264-270 (2006).

      8. Suguru Ohta, Masayoshi Nakano, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Ryohei Kishi, Nozomi Nakagawa, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Shin-ya Umezaki, Akihito Takebe, Hideaki Takahashi, Shin-ichi Furukawa, Yasushi Morita, Kazuhiro Nakasuji, Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Second hyperpolarizability of phenalenyl radical system involving acetylene π-conjugated bridge
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 420, 432-437 (2006)

      9. Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Nozomi Nakagawa, Suguru Ohta, Hideaki Takahashi and Shin-ichi Furukawa, Kenji Kamada and Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Satoru Yamada and Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Second Hyperpolarizabilities (γ) of Bisimidazole and Bistriazole Benzenes: Diradical Character, Charged State and Spin State Dependences
        J. Phys. Chem. A, 110, 4238-4243 (2006).

      10. M. Nakano, S. Ohta, R. Kishi, H. Takahashi, and S. Furukawa
        Monte Carlo wavefunction approach to the dissipative quantum-phase dynamics of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
        Eur. Phys. J. D, 38, 523-532 (2006).

      11. Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Suguru Ohta, Akihito Takebe, Hideaki Takahashi, Shin-ichi Furukawa, Takashi Kubo, Yasushi Morita, Kazuhiro Nakasuji, and Kizashi Yamaguchi, Kenji Kamada, and Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, and Edith Botek
        Origin of the enhancement of the second hyperpolarizability of singlet diradical systems with intermediate diradical character
        J. Chem. Phys., 125, 074113-1-9 (2006).

      12. Masayoshi Nakano, Nozomi Nakagawa, Suguru Ohta, Ryohei Kishi, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Hideaki Takahashi, Shin-ichi Furukawa, Yasushi Morita, Kazuhiro Nakasuji, Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Second hyperpolarizabilities of polycyclic diphenalenyl radicals: effects of para/ortho-quinoid structures and central ring modification
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 429, 174-179 (2006).

      13. M. Nakano, A. Takebe, R. Kishi, S. Ohta, M. Nate, T. Kubo, K. Kamada, K. Ohta, B. Champagne, E. Botek, H. Takahashi, S. Furukawa, Y. Morita and K. Nakasuji
        Second hyperpolarizabilities (γ) of open-shell singlet one-dimensional systems: Intersite interaction effects on the average diradical character and size dependences of γ
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 432, 473-479 (2006).

      14. Masayoshi Nakano, Suguru Ohta, Ryohei Kishi, Masahito Nate, Hideaki Takahashi, Shin-Ichi Furukawa, Hiroya Nitta and Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Exciton recurrence motion in aggregate systems in the presence of quantized optical fields
        J. Chem. Phys., 125, 234707-1-14 (2006).

      15. S. Yamada, M. Nakano, R. Kishi, T. Nitta and K. Yamaguchi
        Theoretical study on the second hyperpolarizabilities of tetrathiofulvalene (TTF) and tetrathiapentalene (TTP) using highly correlated ab initio and the density functional theory methods
        Synthetic Metals, 156, 375-378 (2006).

2005

      1. Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Masahiro Takahata, Tomoshige Nitta, Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Exciton dynamics in nanostar dendritic systems using a quantum master equation approach: core monomer effects and possibility of energy transport control
        J. Luminescence, 111, 359-366 (2005).

      2. Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Tomoshige Nitta, Takashi Kubo, Kazuhiro Nakasuji, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, and Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Second Hyperpolarizability (γ) of Singlet Diradical System: Dependence of γ on the Diradical Character
        J.Phys. Chem. A, 109, 885 - 891 (2005).

      3. M. Nakano, R. Kishi, T. Nitta, B. Champagne, E. Botek and K, Yamaguchi
        Hyperpolarizability Density Analysis of the Enhancement of Second Hyperpolarizability of π-Conjugated Oligomers by Intermolecular Interaction
        Int. J. Quantum Chem., 102, 702-710 (2005).

      4. Masayoshi Nakano, Nozomi Nakagawa, Ryohei Kishi, Tomoshige Nitta, Takashi Kubo, Kazuhiro Nakasuji, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Satoru Yamada and Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Theoretical study on open-shell nonlinear optical systems
        Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 846, DD1.4.13- 24 (2005).

      5. Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Masayoshi Nakano, Tomoshige Nitta, and Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Basis set and electron correlation effects on the polarizability and second hyperpolarizability of model open-shell π-conjugated systems
        J. Chem. Phys., 122, 114315-1-12 (2005).

      6. Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Nozomi Nakagawa, Tomoshige Nitta and Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Quantum Master Equation Approach to the Second Hyperpolarizability of Nanostar Dendritic Systems
        J. Phys. Chem. B, 109, 7631-7636 (2005).

      7. Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Olivier Quinet, Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Tomoshige Nitta, Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Polarizability and Second Hyperpolarizability of Open-Shell p-conjugated Compounds from Spin Projection Method Calculations
        Chem. Phys. Lett., 407, 372-378 (2005).

      8. M. Takahata, M. Shoji, H. Nitta, R. Takeda, S. Yamanaka, M. Okumura, M. Nakano, K. Yamaguchi
        Quantum Dynamics in High-Spin Molecules, Spin Dendrimers, and Spin Lattices
        Int. J. Quant. Chem., 105, 615-627 (2005).

      9. Takashi Kubo, Akihiro Shimizu, Maki Sakamoto, Mikio Uruichi, Kyuya Yakushi, Masayoshi Nakano, Daisuke Shiomi, Kazunobu Sato, Takeji Takui, Yasushi Morita, and Kazuhiro Nakasuji
        Synthesis, Intermolecular Interaction, and Semiconductive Behavior of a Delocalized Singlet Biradical Hydrocarbon
        Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 44, 6564-6568 (2005).

      10. Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano, Satoru Yamada, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Tomoshige Nitta, and Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Theoretical study on two-photon absorption for symmetric molecular systems composed of charged groups linked with π-conjugated bridges
        Synthetic Metals, 154, 181-184 (2005).

      11. M. Nakano, B. Champagne, E. Botek, R. Kishi, T. Nitta, K. Yamaguchi
        A proposal of spin- and charge-modulated open-shell nonlinear optical systems
        Synthetic Metals, 154, 309-312 (2005).

      12. Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Suguru Ohta, Hideaki Takahashi, Shin-ichi Furukawa, Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Quantum-phase dynamics of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates: collapse-revival of macroscopic superposition states
        Physica B, 370, 110-120 (2005).

      13. Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Nozomi Nakagawa, Tomoshige Nitta, Takashi Kubo, Kazuhiro Nakasuji, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Theoretical Study on Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Diradical Systems
        Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics, 34, 29-32 (2005) Dec .

      14. Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano, Nozomi Nakagawa, Tomoshige Nitta, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek, and Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Spin State Dependence of Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Diradical Molecules
        Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics, 34, 33-36 (2005) Dec .

      15. Nozomi Nakagawa, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano, Tomoshige Nitta, Takashi Kubo, Kazuhiro Nakasuji, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Kizashi Yamaguchi
        A Novel Control Scheme of Second Hyperpolarizabilities for Azulene Derivatives
        Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics, 34, 37-40 (2005).

      16. Satoru Yamada, Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Tomoshige Nitta, Kizashi Yamaguchi
        Theoretical study on nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of modified DNA Bases
        Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics, 34, 115-119 (2005).

      17. M. Takahata, M. Shoji, S. Yamanaka, N. Nakano, K. Yamaguchi
        Formulation of master equation approach involving spin-phonon coupling: Toward an understanding of spin dynamics in magnetic dendrimers
        Polyhedron, 24, 2653-2657 (2005).

      18. Shin-ichi FURUKAWA, Toshihiro NISHIUMI, Naoki AOYAMA, Tomoshige NITTA and Masayoshi NAKANO
        A Molecular Simulation Study on Adsorption of Acetone/Water in Mesoporous Silicas Modified by Pore Surface Silylation
        J. Chem. Eng. Japan, 38(12), 999-1007 (2005).