Publications & Activities

1. Perfluorocubane as a σ* Orbital-Based Electron Acceptor beyond Classical Electron-Transfer Models
   Akiyama, M.*; Higashio, K.; Sotome, H.; Kato, K.; Yamakata, A.*; Yabu, S.; Sato, H.; Higashi, M.*; Komaguchi, K.; Osterloh, W. R.; Imahori, H.*
   Nat. Commun. 2026, 17, 9220.

2. Ultrafast Charge Transfer and Long-Lived Charge Separation in Covalently Linked MoS2-Pyrene-Phenothiazine Heterojunction Monolayers
   Kubota, M.; Akiyama, M.; Osterloh, W. R.; Higashi, M.; Fuki, M.; Yamakata, A.*; Kobori, Y.*; Imahori, H.*
   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2026, 148, 5744–5753.

3. Manipulating Charge-Transfer and Charge-Separated States Through Solvent Effects and Excited-State Vibrations in a Phenothiazine-Porphyrin-Naphthalenediimide Triad
   Akiyama, M.*; Tanaka, N.; Osterloh, W. R.; Higashi, M.; Sotome, H.*; Yamakata, A.; Imahori, H.*
   ChemPlusChem 2026, 91, e202500642.

4. Energy Migration, Charge Transfer, And Charge Dissociation In Self-Assembling Nonfullerene Acceptor Aggregates With Zincporphyrin-Nonfullerene Acceptor Dyads
   Tamai, Y.*; Akiyama, M.; Vallan, L.; Sasada, D.; Suzuki, K.; Kaji, H.*; Urakami, T.; Sato, H.; Higashi, M.*; Izawa, S.; Kubota, M.; Umeyama, T.; Imahori, H.*
   Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 15378–15386.

5. Incorporation of selenophene into thienoazacoronene-based non-fullerene acceptor: Impact on photophysical and photovoltaic properties
   Kubota, M.; Umeyama, T.*; Suzuki, W.; Koganezawa, T.; Akiyama, M.; Imahori, H.*
   Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2025, 98, uoae147.

6. The Tetrafluoroethylene-Mediated Ring-Closing Metathesis: Enabling Unfavored Reactions
   Akiyama, M.*; Amabe, Y.; Sugiyama, M.; Sugiyama, K.; Gatzenmeier, T.; Okazoe, T.
   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024,146, 32550–32557.

7. Exceptionally Short Tetracoordinated CarbonHalogen Bonds in Hexafluorodihalocubanes
   Sugiyama, M.;  Uetake, Y.*; Miyagi, N.; Yoshida, M.; Nozaki, K.; Okazoe, T.; Akiyama, M.*
   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 30686–30697. Highlighted in ChemistryViews

8. Highly Alternating Copolymer of [1.1.1]Propellane and Perfluoro Vinyl Ether : Forming Hydrophobic and Oleophobic Surface with < 50% Fluorine Monomer Content
   Okuda, M.; Akiyama, M.*; Funahashi, K.; Masuda, J.; Kohata, A.; Nakagawa, S.; Kashiwagi, K.; Sugiyama, N.; Okazoe, T.; Kawaguchi, D.*
   ACS Macro Lett. 2024, 13, 1383–1389. Featured as an ACS Editors’ Choice.

9. Perfluoroadamantyl Group: Bulky and Highly Electron-Withdrawing Substituent in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials
   Akiyama, M.*; Yasuda, Y.; Kisoi, D.; Kusakabe, Y.; Kaji, H.*; Imahori, H.*
   Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2024, 97, uoae025.

10. The Fluorocarbene Exploit: Enforcing Alternation in Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
    Tashiro, K.; Akiyama, M.*; Kashiwagi, K.; Okazoe, T.
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 2941–2950.

11. Electron in a cube: Synthesis and characterization of perfluorocubane as an electron acceptor
    Sugiyama, M.; Akiyama, M.*; Yonezawa, Y.; Komaguchi, K.; Higashi, M.; Nozaki, K.; Okazoe, T.
    Science 2022, 377, 756–759.
    Press release, Highligted in Synform, Synfacts, C&EN, MarketScreener, Tech+, Chem-Station

12. Synthesis of Crystalline CF3-Rich Perfluoropolyethers from Hexafluoropropylene Oxide and (Trifluoromethyl)trimethylsilane
    Koyama, M.; Akiyama, M.*; Kashiwagi, K.; Nozaki, K.; Okazoe, T.
    Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2022, 2200038.

13. Highly Active Cross Metathesis of Tetrafluoroethylene with a Seven-membered NHC-Ruthenium Catalyst
    Mori, K.; Akiyama, M.*; Inada, K.; Imamura, Y.; Ishibashi, Y.; Takahira, Y.; Nozaki, K.*; Okazoe, T.
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 20980–20987.

14. Synthesis of Fluorinated Dialkyl Carbonates from Carbon Dioxide as a Carbonyl Source
    Sugiyama, M.; Akiyama, M.; Nishiyama, K.; Okazoe, T.; Nozaki, K.*
    ChemSusChem 2020, 13, 1775–1784.

15. Phosphorescence Resulting from Interaction between Two Non-equivalent Metals on a Helical π-Conjugated Surface
    Akiyama, M.; Tsuchiya, Y.; Ishii, A.; Hasegawa, M.; Kurashige, Y.; Nozaki, K.*
    Chem. Asian. J. 2018, 13, 1902–1905.

16. Visible-Light-Activated Catalytic Enantioselective β-Alkylation of α,β-Unsaturated 2-Acyl Imidazoles Using Hantzsch Esters as Radical Reservoirs
    de Assis, F. F.; Huang, X.; Akiyama, M.; Pilli, R. A.; Meggers, E.*
    J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 10922–10932.

17. Synthesis of Optically Pure Helicene Metallocenes
    Akiyama, M.; Nozaki, K.*
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 2040–2044.

18. Synthesis and Properties of [7]Helicene-like Compounds Fused with a Fluorene Unit
    Oyama, H.; Akiyama, M.; Nakano, K.; Naito, M.; Nobusawa, K.; Nozaki, K.*
    Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 3654–3657.

19. Peptide-Catalyzed Desymmetrization of an Achiral Ferrocenyl Compound To Induce Planar Chirality
    Akagawa, K.; Akiyama, M.; Kudo, K.*
    Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 18, 3894–3898. Highlighted in Cheminform

20. Peptide-Catalyzed Kinetic Resolution of Planar-Chiral Metallocenes
    Akiyama, M.; Akagawa, K.; Seino, H.; Kudo, K.*
    Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 7893–7896.

21. Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of C–C Single Bonds Adjacent to Functional Groups by Metal-Ligand Cooperation
    Kusumoto, S.; Akiyama, M.; Nozaki, K.*
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 18726–18729.

1. From Limitation to Useful Platform: Fluoroalkenes in Ruthenium-catalyzed Olefin Metathesis
   Akiyama, M.*
   Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2026, 99, uoag116. (Award Account for The CSJ Award for Young Chemists) 

2. Porphyrinoid-Based Solar Cells
   Imahori, H.*; Akiyama, M.
   In Towards Multiple Applications of Porphyrinoids: The Colored Molecules of Life; Guilard, R.; Kadish, K., Eds.; World Scientific: Singapore, 2025, 263–296.

3. Dynamic Excitons in Organic Light-Emitting Systems
   Suzuki, K.; Sakuda, E.; Tani, Y.; Akiyama, M.; Albrecht, K.; Aizawa, N.; Izawa, S.; Kaji, H.*
   J. Chem. Phys. 2025,162, 061001.

4. Photoinduced charge separation at heterojunctions between two-dimensional layered materials and small organic molecules
   Imahori, H.*; Akiyama, M.
   Mater. Horiz. 2025, 12, 92–102.

5. Molecular donor–acceptor linked systems as models for examining their interactions in excited states
   Imahori, H.*; Akiyama, M.*
   J. Chem. Phys. 2024, 161, 080901.

6. Porphyrins as a key component for photoinduced charge separation, solar cells, and optogenetics
   Imahori, H.*; Akiyama, M.
   J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2024, 28, 319–337.

7. Higher-Order Π-Electron Systems Based on Helicene Molecules
   Akiyama, M.; Nakano, K.; Nozaki, K.
   Chemical Science of Π-Electron Systems, Akasaka, T., Osuka, A., Fukuzumi, S., Kandori, H., Aso, Y. (Eds.), Springer, 2015, 37–46.

Invited Lectures (Akiyama)

1. "Unusual Electron-Transfer Properties of a D-A Linked System Incorporating Fluorinated Cubane"
   Keima Higashio, Midori Akiyama, H. Sotome, K. Kato, A. Yamakata, S. Yabu, H. Sato, M. Higashi, K. Komaguchi, W. Ryan Osterloh, Hiroshi Imahori
   Poster presentation, Nagoya Fluorine Days 2026, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, May 17–22, 2026.

Awards (Akiyama)