Koji Kubota

New Primer in Nature Reviews Methods Primers 🧪 We cover the principles + practice of flow chemistry. Great work by early-career authors Sarah, Jonathan & Prachi — with @AnnaGSlater @BaumannGroupUCD @PolyzosAP @MethodsPrimers 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4358…

Today in @ScienceMagazine, we report a method to replace the C2 of pyridines with N, affording pyridazines. The change from electronically consonant (pyridine) to dissonant (pyridazine) opens retrosyntheses not typically available to the latter. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our group reports a Ni-catalyzed desulfurative ring contraction method in @J_A_C_S. By performing double SNAr reactions and "deleting" the sulfur atom afterwards, many fun heterocycles can be synthesized in 2 steps from commercial materials. Congratulations, @chou15_johnson!

Our paper on the electrochemical single-carbon insertion has now published in @J_A_C_S ! Huge congratulations to the team — and especially to Tatsuya, the lead author, for his outstanding dedication! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

My undergraduate advisor, Fred Hawthorne, once wrote, “One cannot fail to love borane chemistry since it recaptures the early days of organic chemistry and the attendant sense of rewarding exploration." Embracing that spirit, our new study in @J_A_C_S - draws a connection…

[1,3]-Hydride Shift in α-Boryl Cations: Strategic Design of Fluorine-Triggered Cyclopropanation | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Solution is not the only solution: nanographenes by mechanochemistry - nice review, Ela sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share our new strategy to access carbenes - of all electronic types! Congrats to Khue, Xueling, Bethany, Mohamed, Jake, Young, & Ilias on their beautiful work in @ScienceMagazine! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The MBLA award ceremony was finally held. Grateful for the chance to give an invited talk at the Banyu Sapporo Symposium. Also proud that our student Sota received the Best Poster Award! Huge thanks to all my mentors, collaborators, and students who’ve supported me along the way!

Our latest paper has been published in @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… A light-off salient effect — benzodifuranone crystals that leap after UV light is switched off. This is achieved by controlling the thermal phase transition using a second stimulus in a precise manner.

Our recent publication, in collaboration with Prof. Mase of Shizuoka University, has been published open access in ACS Catalysis. doi.org/10.1021/acscat…

Introducing Steric Bulk Into Silylboranes: Enhanced Bench Stability and Novel Chemical Reactivity (Hajime Ito and co-workers) #AngewandteVIP • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Prof. Jin-Quan Yu (@YulabJin) will receive the 5th Akira Suzuki Award for his research on C–H bond activation, which makes it easier to build complex molecules. His work accelerates advances in pharmaceuticals, molecular tools and materials science. More: ow.ly/z0BL50WhOQf

I’m really happy to share that our latest paper is finally out — after nearly five years of work!!! Huge thanks to my co-authors and everyone who supported this project over the years. doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

Waste polystyrene upcycling via the Birch reduction with ball-mill grinding. Out now in Nature Communications! rdcu.be/eujAy

Congratulations to Team Carbamorphine, led by Sota, along with our collaborators from the Majumdar and McLaughlin groups on the publication of our work in PNAS! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Now online: Article by @QiqiangX, Peng Liu, @GuangbinDong & co-workers @GBD_Lab @pengliu_group Enantioconvergent carbenoid insertion into carbon–boron bonds nature.com/articles/s4416… ($)

My account article titled "Skeletal Transformation of π-Conjugated Molecules for Functional Materials" has been published in Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn.! This article represents an award account for my CSJ Award for Young Chemists. ttps://doi.org/10.1093/bulcsj/uoaf062

Stable yet Strongly Lewis-Acidic Anions Enabling Cooperative Catalysis with Cationic Transition Metal Complexes (@angew_chem): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… (@ChemBiotech_UT, @MandaiRyo53373).

Mechanochemical pathway for converting fluoropolymers to fluorochemicals nature.com/articles/s4155…