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SEGAWA Yasutomo

Associate Professor

TEL: 0564-59-5587
E-Mail : segawa_at_ims.ac.jp (Please replace the "_at_" with @ )
Location: Yamate, No.3 Bldg. 4F West

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Department

Life and Coordination-Complex Molecular Science, Division of Functional Coordination Chemistry

Biography

2005 B.S. The University of Tokyo
2007 M.S. The University of Tokyo
2009 Ph.D. The University of Tokyo
2009 Assistant Professor, Nagoya University
2013 Designated Associate Professor, Nagoya University (until 2020)
2013 Group Leader and Project Coordinator, JST ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Project (until 2020)
2020 Associate Professor, Institute for Molecular Science
        Associate Professor, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

Awards

2013 RSC PCCP Prize
2014 Akasaki Award
2017 Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists
2018 The Young Scientists’ Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT
2019 Nozoe Memorial Award for Young Organic Chemists
2021 The Chemist Award BCA 2021
2022 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award 2022
2022 The 62nd Academic Encouragement Award from the Ube Industries Foundation

Main research themes

Design and synthesis of three-dimensional organic structures
kewords π-conjugated molecules, molecular topology, 3D network polymer
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Selected Publications

  1. Synthesis, structure, and properties of a bay-fluorinated triphenylene
    Ryu Yoshida, Haruki Sugiyama, Yasutomo Segawa*
    Chem. Lett. 2024, 53, upae048.
  2. Synthesis of Polycyclic Arenes Composed of Four-, Five-, Six-, and Eight-Membered Rings via an Unexpected Four-Membered Ring Formation Reaction
    Soshi Hirota, Sachiko Nakano, Haruki Sugiyama, Yasutomo Segawa*
    Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 8062–8066.
  3. Synthesis of penta- and hexa(3,4-thienylene): Size-dependent structural properties of cyclic oligothiophenes
    Mai Nagase, Sachiko Nakano, Yasutomo Segawa*
    Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 11129-11132.
  4. Nonplanar Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Design and Synthesis of Highly Strained Structures
    Yasutomo Segawa*
    Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2022, 95, 1600–1610.
  5. Synthesis of a Möbius carbon nanobelt
    Yasutomo Segawa,* Tsugunori Watanabe, Kotono Yamanoue, Motonobu Kuwayama, Kosuke Watanabe, Kenichiro Itami*
    Nature Synth. 2022, 1, 535–541.
  6. Double-helix supramolecular nanofibers assembled from negatively curved nanographenes
    Kenta Kato, Kiyofumi Takaba, Saori Maki-Yonekura, Nobuhiko Mitoma, Yusuke Nakanishi, Taishi Nishihara, Taito Hatakeyama, Takuma Kawada, Yuh Hijikata, Jenny Pirillo, Lawrence T. Scott, Koji Yonekura,* Yasutomo Segawa,* Kenichiro Itami*
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 5465-5469.
  7. Synthesis of a zigzag carbon nanobelt
    Kwang Yin Cheung, Kosuke Watanabe, Yasutomo Segawa,* Kenichiro Itami*
    Nature Chem. 2021, 13, 255-259.
  8. Topological Molecular Nanocarbons: All-benzene Catenane and Trefoil Knot
    Yasutomo Segawa,* Motonobu Kuwayama, Yuh Hijikata, Masako Fushimi, Taishi Nishihara, Jenny Pirillo, Junya Shirasaki, Natsumi Kubota, Kenichiro Itami*
    Science 2019, 365, 272-276.
  9. Synthesis of a Carbon Nanobelt
    Guillaume Povie, Yasutomo Segawa,* Taishi Nishihara, Yuhei Miyauchi, Kenichiro Itami*
    Science 2017, 356, 172–175.
  10. Metal-free Hydrogenation Catalysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
    Yasutomo Segawa, Douglas W. Stephan*
    Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 11963–11965.
  11. Boryllithium: Isolation, Characterization, and Reactivity as a Boryl Anion.
    Yasutomo Segawa, Makoto Yamashita,* Kyoko Nozaki*
    Science 2006, 314, 113–115.