AK ABE & ISHITANI

The Research Group of 

Professor Dr. Manabu Abe & Professor Dr. Osamu Ishitani


広島大学 反応有機化学研究室
安倍・高木 グループ・石谷・崔 グループ

PhotoIUPAC will be held in Hiroshima in 2028 

at the Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima

April 2-7, 2028

Organized by Jiro Abe (Aoyamagakuin Univ), Manabu Abe (Hiroshima Univ), and 

Ryu Abe (Kyoto Univ)

the past conference: see, PhotoIUPAC-2024 in Valencia (Spain)


News

  • Okamoto's paper was accepted for publication in J. Am. Chem. Soc., ja-2024-140954, Impact of Transition-State Aromaticity on Selective Radical-Radical Coupling of Triarylimidazolyl Radicals, Okamoto, Kazunori; Hatano, Sayaka; Abe, Manabu
  • A collaboration paper with Anna, Rainer, and Chris was accepted for publication in J. Am. Chem. Soc., ja-2024-07846r, Influence of Curvature on the Physical Properties and Reactivity of Triplet Corannulene Nitrene, McKissic, Kelley; Chakraborty, Mrinal; Govorov, Dmitrii; Majumder, Mayukh; Judkins, DeAnte; Merugu, Rajkumar; Sriyarathne, H. Dushanee; Das, Anushree; Mendis, W. Dinindu; von Glasenapp, Jan-Simon; Herges, Rainer; Hadad, Christopher; Mack, James; Abe, Manabu; Gudmundsdottir, Anna
  • Ishitani-sensei was awarded the Medal of Honor (Medal with Purple Ribbon: for inventions and discoveries in the field of scientific technology and for outstanding achievements in the fields of academics, sports, and the arts) in the autumn 2024.
  • Eslam Roshdy Abdelrazek's poster presentation was selected as an excellent poster for "HU SPRING 3QUESTIONS Three Questions for the Future". He had an additional research funding of ¥500,000. Congrats Eslam!
  • Preview in Chem was published, Chem 10 (10), 2938-2940.
  • Miss Tam got a 2024 Academic Encouragement Award for Students. Congrats!
  • Miss Tam got a Poster Prize at the 1st Joint Symposium of Hiroshima-Yonsei University. Congrats.
  • Tam's study on "Design and synthesis of a 2,5-Diarylthiophene chromophore for enhanced near-infrared two-photon uncaging efficiency of calcium ions" was published in Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences:  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43630-024-00623-5
  • Anna Tiefel and Mostafa joined our group.
  • Mr. Eslam ROSHDY got a Poster Prize at the annual meeting of Photochemistry in Fukuoka. Congrats.
  • Mr. Ku Kajikawa got a Poster Prize at the 26th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC) 2024 in Beijing. Congrats.
  • Zhang san's paper was published in Chemistry Letters in 2024.
  • Miyaji san's paper was published in ACS Catalysis.
  • A collaboration paper with Anna D. Gudmundsdottir (University of Cincinnati) has been published in The Journal of Organic Chemistry.α-Cleavage of 2,2-Diazido-2,3-dihydroinden-1-one in Solution and Cryogenic Matrices, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.4c00499.
  • A collaboration paper with Michael Lazarus and Tsuyoshi Saitoh (Tsukuba University) has been published in Nature Communications. Optochemical control of slow-wave sleep in the nucleus accumbens of male mice by a photoactivatable allosteric modulator of adenosine A2A receptors, Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 3661.
  • A collaboration paper with Fan-Ching Chien and Tzu-Chau Lin (National Central University, Taiwan) has been published in Angew. Chem. Temporal-Focusing Multiphoton Excitation Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy Using Spontaneously Blinking Fluorophores, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 10.1002/anie.202404942
  • Professor Ishitani's group join us!
  • Professor Graham Bodwell's lecture will be held on April 10 at 401N, Synthesis, Properties and Chemistry of Cyclophanes Containing Nonplanar Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons.
  • Dang's study on "Crucial Roles of Leaving Group and Open-shell Cation in Photoreaction of (Coumarin-4-yl)methyl Derivatives" was accepted for publication in Journal of the American Chemical Society, ja-2024-028802
  • Phong's study on "Development of a Two-Photon Responsive Chromophore, 2-(p-Aminophenyl)-5,6-dimethoxy-1-(hydroxyinden-3-yl)methyl Derivative, as Photoremovable Protecting Group" was accepted for publication in The Journal of Organic Chemistry, jo-2023-029433
  • A collaboration paper with Yasuda&Nishimoto' group has been published in Angew. Chem. Sequential C–F Bond Transformation of the Difluoromethylene Unit in Perfluoroalkyl Groups: A Combination of Fine‐Tuned Phenothiazine Photoredox Catalyst and Lewis Acid, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202401117
  • A collaboration paper with Ellis-Davies's group has been published in Angew. Chem. Bidirectional neuronal actuation by uncaging with violet and green light, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ange.202315726
  • Takano's paper is accepted for publication in EurJOC, a special issue of Physical Organic Chemistry. Substituent Effects on the Electronic Ground State (Singlet versus Triplet) of Indenyl Cations: DFT and CASPT2 Studies, Takano, M.; Antol, I.; Abe, M. EurJOC, in press, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202301226
  • A collaboration paper with Nokami's group has been accepted for publication in ChemElectroChem. Formation of Sterically Congested C─N by Electrochemical Reductive Coupling of Amines and α-Bromocarboxamides; celc.202300636
  • A collaboration paper with Minakata's group has been accepted for publication in Chemical Science. Photoexcitation of (Diarylmethylene)amino Benziodoxolones for Alkylamination of Styrene Derivatives with Carboxylic Acids, DOI: 10.1039/D3SC06090J
  • Onishi & Liu's study on "Energetically More Stable Singlet Cyclopentane-1,3-diyl Diradical with π-Single Bonding Character than the Corresponding σ-Single Bonded Compound" has been accepted for publication in Journal of American Chemical Society, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.3c10971
  • Itasaka, Kajikawa, Horio presented their research at SEST 2023.
  • Takano and Eslam was selected as a recipient of the 2023 Academic Award of the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University. 
  • Kajikawa's poster was won the 2nd prize Poster Award at the Solvation Chemistry and Reactive Molecules 2023. 

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Arbeitskreise ABE (AK-Abe)
The Research Group of
Professor Dr. Manabu Abe
Đại học Hiroshima · Phòng thí nghiệm Abe
广岛大学 · 安倍实验室,廣島大學 · 安倍實驗室
Universitas Hiroshima · Laboratorium Abe
مختبر جامعة هيروشيما آبي
हिरोशिमा विश्वविद्यालय अबे प्रयोगशाला
Research Group of Reaction Organic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Graduate School of Science
Hiroshima University, Japan

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

安倍 学 (C309)
Manabu Abe
E-mail: mabe at hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Tel: +81-82-424-7432
石谷 治 (B501)
Email:  iosamu at hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Tel: + 81-82-7432-7340