Assistant Professor, Midori Akiyama
Tel: +81-75-383-2568
Fax: +81-75-383-2571
E-mail: akiyama[at mark]moleng.kyoto-u.ac.jp
IDs:ORCID: 0000-0001-8439-1210
Education
2012.3: B.S., Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Prof. Kyoko Nozaki)
2014.3: M.S., Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Prof. Kazuaki Kudo)
2017.3: Ph.D., Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Prof. Kyoko Nozaki)
Academic Carrier
2016.4–2017.3: Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, DC2)
2017.4–2022.3: Project Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
2022.4–present: Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Awards
2016 : The 2nd BASF Rising Star Award for PhD students
2016 : Student Presentation Award, The 96th Annual Meeting in Chemical Society of Japan
2016 : Student Presentation Award, The 66th Conference of Japan Society of Coordination chemistry
2016 : Otsu Academy Fellow
2016 : Poster Award, The 6th CSJ Chemistry Festa
2017 : the L’Oréal-UNESCO for women in science Japan fellowships 2017
2021 : Presentation Award, The 44th Fluorine Conference of Japan
Publications
- 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Synthesis of Optically Pure Helicene Metallocenes
Akiyama, M.; Nozaki, K.*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 2040–2044. - 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. - 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 - Peptide-Catalyzed Kinetic Resolution of Planar-Chiral Metallocenes
Akiyama, M.; Akagawa, K.; Seino, H.; Kudo, K.*
Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 7893–7896. - 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.
