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Vol. 80, No. 3 (March, 2007)

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Vol.80 Commemorative Accounts
  Web Release Date:  March 13, 2007
 433-440  Development of Fabrication of Giant Nanomembranes
 H. Watanabe, R. Vendamme, and T. Kunitake*
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Giant membranes that are characterized with nanometer thickness and macroscopic size are reviewed for the first time. They are fabricated from only metal oxides, from hybrids of metal oxides and cross-linked acrylate, and from totally organic thermosetting resins.

Award Accounts
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 441-448  Methods of Analysis for Imaging and Detecting Ions and Molecules
 Y. Umezawa
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We have developed methods for imaging and detecting ions and molecules. We have tried to implement “seeing what was unseen” in single live cells and interfacial molecular recognition chemistry.

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 449-455  Preparation and Characterization of Carbon Microcoils (CMCs)
 S. Motojima* and X. Chen
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Carbon microcoils (CMCs) with 3D-helical/spiral structures were obtained by the metal-activated pyrolysis of acetylene. The preparation conditions, morphologies, growth mechanism, microstructure, and some properties of the CMCs are examined, and their potential applications are discussed.

Accounts
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 456-463  High Resolution Spectroscopy and Zeeman Effect of the S1 ← S0 Transition of Benzene and Naphthalene
 H. Katô,* M. Baba, and S. Kasahara
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Coupling to a triplet state was shown not to be responsible for nonradiative relaxation. Accordingly, intersystem crossing is not the dominant nonradiative process at low-lying vibrational states, and the main nonradiative process is presumed to be internal conversion.

BCSJ Award Article
  Web Release Date:  March 13, 2007
 464-475  Guest-Induced Supramolecular Isomerism and Chirality of Brucine Inclusion Crystals with Aliphatic Alcohols: A Hierarchical Interpretation
 T. Watabe, K. Kobayashi, I. Hisaki,* N. Tohnai, and M. Miyata*
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Guest-induced supramolecular isomers of brucine inclusion crystals with aliphatic alcohols consist of the common 21 helical tape-like assemblies. Supramolecular isomerization occurred mainly depending on the size of the guest molecules.

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 476-483  π-Radical Cationic Salts of Tetrathiafulvalene Derivatives with Pyromellitate
 K. Shiono, T. Naito, and T. Inabe*
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Pyromellitate has been utilized for the construction of the π-radical cationic salts of the TTF derivatives. In most of the salt crystals pyromellitate has been found to form two-dimensional anionic networks.

Selected Paper
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 484-490  Molecular Recognition in an Organic Host–Guest Complex: CH···O and CH···π Interactions Completely Control the Crystal Packing and the Host–Guest Complexation
 K. V. Radhakrishnan,* S. Anas, E. Suresh, N. Koga, and C. H. Suresh*
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The synthesis, crystal structure analysis, and theoretical modeling of an organic host–guest complex consisting of azapolycyclic system and ethylacetate revealing rich CH···O and CH···π interactions are presented.

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 491-494  In Situ Observation of Laser-Induced Convection of Water in High Magnetic Fields Using a Photochromic Reaction
 Y. Tanimoto,* K. Sueda, and M. Irie
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In situ observation revealed that laser-induced convection of water was remarkably affected by high vertical magnetic fields.


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 495-497  Spin-Trapping Properties of 5-(Diphenylphosphinoyl)-5-methyl-4,5-dihydro-3H-pyrrole N-Oxide (DPPMDPO)
 M. Nishizawa,* K. Shioji, Y. Kurauchi, K. Okuma, and M. Kohno
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Spin-trapping properties of DPPMDPO showed that DPPMDPO was a better spin-trapping reagent than DEPMPO for superoxide detection.


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 498-502  Chemical Speciation of Arsenic Species in Human Blood Serum by Liquid Chromatography Using a Phosphatidylcholine-Coated ODS Column with Detection by ICP-MS
 T. Hasegawa, J. Ishise, Y. Fukumoto, H. Matsuura, Y. Zhu, T. Umemura, H. Haraguchi,* K. Yamamoto, and T. Naoe
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An octadecylsilyl silica (ODS) column coated with phosphatidylcholine (PC) was used for speciation analysis of inorganic and organic arsenic species in human blood serum. A citric acid buffer solution (pH 4.0) containing TMAH and SDS as the ion-pair reagent as well as CHAPS as a protein-solubilizing agent was used as the mobile phase.


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 503-506  Speciation of Human Serum Proteins Based on Trace Metal Mapping Analysis by CIM Monolithic Disk Column HPLC/ICP-MS in Complement with Off-Line MALDI-TOF-MS Analysis
 T. Hasegawa, Y. Wakita, Y. Zhu, H. Matsuura, H. Haraguchi, and T. Umemura*
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A multiply hyphenated system of HPLC/UV/ICP-MS/MALDI-TOF-MS was constructed for metallomics research, and its applicability to the identification of metalloproteins was examined through the analysis of human serum proteins.


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 507-517  Characteristics of Mononuclear Ruthenium–Oxo Complexes Adjusted by Axial Ligand for the Catalysis of Oxygen-Transfer Reactions
 T. Okumura, Y. Morishima, H. Shiozaki, T. Yagyu, Y. Funahashi, T. Ozawa, K. Jitsukawa,* and H. Masuda
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Ruthenium(II) complexes with square-planar ligand showed catalytic activity for the oxygen-transfer reactions in the presence of oxidant through high valent RuV=O or RuVI=O species. The catalytic activities were adjusted by the trans-influence of axial ligand L.


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 518-522  Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization of New Molecular Complexes of Bismuth(III) Chloride with Free Base meso-Tetraarylporphyrins
 H. Dehghani* and A. R. Ansari Sardrood
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1:1 mixing of meso-tetraarylporphyrin (H2t(X)pp) and BiCl3 leads to the formation of [(BiCl3{H2t(X)pp})2], in which two nitrogen atoms of pyrrolenine in the porphyrin act as electron donors to a bismuth atom, and there is a (μ-Cl)2 bridge between two bismuth.


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 523-529  Synthesis and Magnetic Property of Copper(II)–Lanthanide(III) Complexes [{CuIILLnIII(o-van)(CH3COO)(MeOH)}2]·2H2O (LnIII = GdIII, TbIII, and DyIII; H3L = 1-(2-Hydroxybenzamido)-2-(2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzylideneamino)ethane; o-van = 3-Methoxysalicylaldehydato)
 T. Hamamatsu, K. Yabe, M. Towatari, N. Matsumoto,* N. Re, A. Pochaba, and J. Mrozinski
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Three copper(II)–lanthanide(III) complexes with LnIII=GdIII, TbIII, and DyIII were synthesized. These compounds consist of a cyclic tetranuclear CuII2LnIII2 structure, and the magnetic interaction between CuII and each of GdIII, TbIII, and DyIII ions is ferromagnetic. The ac magnetic susceptibilities of the complexes with LnIII=TbIII and DyIII showed a frequency dependence characteristic of SMMs.


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 530-532  Structure–Activity Relationship of Insulinomimetic Activity of Zinc(II) Complexes with Pyridine-2-sulfonic Acid Derivatives
 Y. Yoshikawa, M. Morishita, M. Nishide, E. U. Yoshikawa, I. Kinoshita, K. Okada, N. M. Kajiwara, H. Sakurai, and Y. Kojima*
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Bis(3-methylpyridine-2-sulfonato)zinc(II) was the best insulinomimetic complex among the complexes with pyridine-2-sulfonic acid ligands.

  Web Release Date:  March 13, 2007
 533-535  Synthesis and Luminescence of Four-Coordinate Mononuclear Gold(I) Complex: [Au(biphep)2]PF6
 K. Saito, T. Tsukuda, K. Matsumoto, and T. Tsubomura*
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A tetrahedral four-coordinate bis-diphosphine gold(I) complex, [Au(biphep)2]PF6, was prepared, and the structure was determined by X-ray structure analysis. The complex in CH2Cl2 showed photo luminescence at room temperature.

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 536-542  Characterization of Magnesium Porphyrins and Aggregation of Porphyrins in Organic Solvent
 X. Zhang, K. Sasaki, and Y. Kuroda*
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The lipophilic Mg porphyrin MgTPPSC8 formed J-type oligomers in pure CH2Cl2 and H-aggregates in CH2Cl2–CH3OH binary solvent, which is highly sensitive to the solvent composition.

  Web Release Date:  March 13, 2007
 543-552  Chemical Conversion of Natural Polymyxin B and Colistin to Their N-Terminal Derivatives
 K. Okimura, K. Ohki, Y. Sato, K. Ohnishi, Y. Uchida, and N. Sakura*
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Tetrakis(Nγ-trifluoroacetyl)–polymyxin B (2–10) was prepared by trifluoroacetylation of natural polymyxin B, followed by treatment of aqueous methanesulfonic acid, and used as a starting material to synthesize the N-terminal derivatives of polymyxin B (2–10).


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 553-560  Ionic Liquid [bmim]PF6-Mediated Synthesis of 1,2-Orthoesters of Carbohydrates and the Glycosidation Reactions of 4-Pentenyl Orthoesters
 S. Anas, V. S. Sajisha, R. Rajan, R. T. Kumaran, and K. V. Radhakrishnan*
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A facile synthesis of 1,2-orthoesters of carbohydrates and the glycosidation reactions of 4-pentenyl orthoesters (NPOEs) with different alcohols in the ionic liquid [bmim]PF6 are described.


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 561-566  The Effect of meta-Substitution on the Photochemical Properties of Benzoxazole Derivatives
 A. Ohshima, M. Ikegami, Y. Shinohara, A. Momotake, and T. Arai*
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The excited-state properties of 4-MHBO were similar to those for the parent compound HBO, whereas different properties were observed for 3-MHBO.

  Web Release Date:  March 13, 2007
 567-577  Synthesis of Isochalcogenazole Rings by Treating β-(N,N-Dimethylcarbamoylchalcogenenyl)alkenyl Ketones with Hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic Acid
 K. Shimada,* A. Moro-oka, A. Maruyama, H. Fujisawa, T. Saito, R. Kawamura, H. Kogawa, M. Sakuraba, Y. Takata, S. Aoyagi, Y. Takikawa, and C. Kabuto
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Treatment of β-(N,N-dimethylcarbamoylchalcogenenyl)alkenyl ketones A with hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid afforded isochalcogenazole rings C via an intramolecular nucleophilic attack of in situ generated alkenechalcogenols B to the nitrogen atom of oxime sulfonates.


  Web Release Date:  March 13, 2007
 578-582  Efficient Synthesis of Propargylic Ethers under the DBU Conditions and Its Application to Natural Products Synthesis
 T. Yokoyama, N. Kutsumura, T. Ohgiya, and S. Nishiyama*
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The DBU-mediated elimination reaction of the dibromides possessing O-substituents at neighboring position successfully provided the corresponding alkynes. Application of this methodology to the synthesis of (−)-muricatacin and (R,R)-sapinofuranone B was successfully carried out.


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 583-585  Stable Diaxial Chair Cyclohexanes due to the Adjacent and Bulky trans-Siloxy Groups
 H. Yamada,* K. Okajima, H. Imagawa, T. Mukae, Y. Kawamura, and M. Nishizawa
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The rings of the (±)-trans-1,2-bis(tert-butyldiphenylsiloxy)-, (triisopropylsiloxy)-, and (tert-butyldimethylsiloxy)cyclohexanes prefer a diaxial chair conformation in the crystal state. The ring of the tert-butyldimethylsiloxy derivative switched its chair conformation between the diaxial and a diequatorial conformations in the crystal and in solution, respectively.


  Web Release Date:  March 13, 2007
 586-588  Photoisomerization and Fluorescence Properties of para-Substituted Benzyl Ether-Type Stilbene Dendrimers
 S. Watanabe, M. Ikegami, R. Nagahata, and T. Arai*
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The rate constant of trans-to-cis photoizomerization of stilbene derivatives was not affected by the introduction of bulky substituents with large molecular weight.


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 589-593  Dehydroabietic Acid Esters as Chiral Dopants for Nematic Liquid Crystals
 H. Shitara, M. Aruga, E. Odagiri, K. Taniguchi, M. Yasutake, and T. Hirose*
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Optically active dehydroabietic acid derivatives were shown to be good chiral dopants for a nematic liquid-crystal phase.


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