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| Name | Masanori Yamamoto |  |
| Assistant Professor at Tohoku University | ||
| Alma mater | Kyoto University (Ph.D., 2017) | |
| Address | Institute of Multidisciplinary Research | |
| for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University | ||
| 2‒1‒1 Katahira, Aoba, Sendai 980‒8577, Japan | ||
| masanori.yamamoto.b2[@]tohoku.ac.jp | ||
| Phone | +81‒22‒217‒5627 | |
| Field | Inorganic Catalysis, Photochemistry, and Organic Chemistry | |
| h-index | 7 [Google Scholar] [publons.com] [ORCID] | |
Professional Experience
| Apr | 2014 | ‒ | Mar | 2017 | JSPS Research Fellow for Young Scientists |
| Oct | 2014 | ‒ | Nov | 2014 | Visiting Researcher, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK |
| Nov | 2014 | ‒ | Dec | 2014 | Visiting, Department of Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE |
| Feb | 2016 | ‒ | Mar | 2016 | Visiting, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, SE |
| Apr | 2017 | ‒ | Mar | 2018 | Assistant Professor, Nagaoka University of Technology |
| Apr | 2018 | ‒ | Assistant Professor, Tohoku University |
Publications
| 1. | Highly Diastereoselective Construction of Acyclic Systems with Two Adjacent Quaternary Stereocenters by Allylation of Ketones Takeshi Takeda, Masanori Yamamoto, Satoshi Yoshida, and Akira Tsubouchi Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 7263‒7266 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201202808, [PDF] (Highlighted in Synfacts) |
| 2. | Slow Charge Recombination and Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Properties of Diazaporphyrin‒Fullerene Linked Dyad Masanori Yamamoto, Yuta Takano, Yoshihiro Matano, Kati Stranius, Nikolai V. Tkachenko, Helge Lemmetyinen, and Hiroshi Imahori J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 1808‒1820 DOI: 10.1021/jp410436f |
| 3. | Remarkable Dependence of the Final Charge Separation Efficiency on the Donor‒Acceptor Interaction in Photoinduced Electron Transfer Tomohiro Higashino, Tomoki Yamada, Masanori Yamamoto, Akihiro Furube, Nikolai V. Tkachenko, Taku Miura, Yasuhiro Kobori, Ryota Jono, Koichi Yamashita, and Hiroshi Imahori Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 629‒633 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201509067 |
| 4. | Visible Light-Driven Water Oxidation by Covalently-Linked Molecular Catalyst‒Sensitizer Dyad Assembled on TiO2 Electrode Masanori Yamamoto, Lei Wang, Fusheng Li, Takashi Fukushima, Koji Tanaka, Licheng Sun, and Hiroshi Imahori Chem. Sci. 2016, 7, 1430‒1439 DOI: 10.1039/C5SC03669K, [PDF] |
| 5. | Probing the Dipolar Coupling in a Heterospin Endohedral Fullerene‒Phthalocyanine Dyad Shen Zhou†, Masanori Yamamoto†, G. Andrew D. Briggs, Hiroshi Imahori, and Kyriakos Porfyrakis J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 1313‒1319 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b11641 |
| 6. | Artificial Molecular Photosynthetic Systems: Towards Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation Masanori Yamamoto and Koji Tanaka ChemPlusChem 2016, 81, 1028‒1044 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201600236 (Review Article) |
| 7. | Visible Light-driven Water Oxidation with Subporphyrin Sensitizer and Water Oxidation Catalyst Masanori Yamamoto, Yusuke Nishizawa, Pavel Chábera, Fusheng Li, Torbjörn Pascher, Villy Sundström, Licheng Sun, and Hiroshi Imahori Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 13702‒13705 DOI: 10.1039/c6cc07877j, [PDF] |
| 8. | A Ruthenium Complex‒Porphyrin‒Fullerene-Linked Molecular Pentad as an Integrative Photosynthetic Model Masanori Yamamoto, Jens Föhlinger, Jonas Petersson, Leif Hammarström, and Hiroshi Imahori Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 3329‒3333 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201612456, [PDF] |
| 9. | Probing the Entropic Effect in Molecular Non-covalent Interactions between Resin-bound Polybrominated Arenes and Small Substrates Masanori Yamamoto*, Miyuki Obara, Keisuke Ochi, Atsushi Yamamoto, Katsuhiko Takenaka, Tsunehiro Tanaka, and Kazunori Sato ChemPlusChem 2018, 83, 820‒824 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201800304, [PDF] (Front Cover of the issue) |
| 10. | Force-Driven Reversible Liquid‒Gas Phase Transition Mediated by Elastic Nanosponges Keita Nomura, Hirotomo Nishihara*, Masanori Yamamoto, Atsushi Gabe, Masashi Ito, Masanobu Uchimura, Yuta Nishina, Hideki Tanaka, Minoru T. Miyahara, and Takashi Kyotani Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 2559 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10511-7 (Press Release, Tohoku University) |
† equally contributed. * corresponding author(s).
Patent
| 1. | Electrochemical device for the conversion of carbon dioxide into oxygenated hydrocarbon fuels using meso-structured metal oxides Masanori Yamamoto and Kazunori Sato Patent Application, 2017‒198623 (filled in October 2017) |
| 2. | Heat pump Masashi Ito, Masanobu Uchimura, Takashi Kyotani, Hirotomo Nishihara, Keita Nomura, and Masanori Yamamoto Patent Application, 2019‒021855 (filled in February 2019) |
| 3. | Sulfur active materials, electrodes, and the batteries Youichi Yoshioka, Masashi Ito, Masahiro Morooka, Takashi Kyotani, Hirotomo Nishihara, Keita Nomura, and Masanori Yamamoto Patent Application, 2019‒031805 (filled in February 2019) |
Grant Support
| 1. | Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow "Construction of artificial photosynthetic systems using diazaporphyrins as light harvesting antenna" Principal Investigator: Masanori Yamamoto Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant Number: 14J03432 (April 2014 ‒ March 2017) |
| 2. | Grant-in-Aid (Start-up) "Construction of artificial photosynthetic systems for CO2 fixation and their kinetic analysis" Principal Investigator: Masanori Yamamoto Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant Number: 17H06702 (August 2017 ‒ March 2019) |
| 3. | Grant-in-Aid (for Young Scientists) "Development of highly elastic and flexible carbon catalysts with vertical control of electron and ions" Principal Investigator: Masanori Yamamoto Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant Number: 19K15281 (April 2019 ‒ March 2021) |
Awards
| 1. | The Frontier Award for his bachelor's thesis Title "Stereoselective Construction of Adjacent Quaternary Carbons by Allylation of Ketones" Masanori Yamamoto, March 2012 |
| 2. | JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists "Construction of artificial photosynthetic systems using diazaporphyrins as light harvesting antenna" Masanori Yamamoto Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), April 2014 ‒ March 2017 |
| 3. | The CSJ Student Presentation Award Title "Visible light-driven water oxidation by ruthenium-based molecular catalyst-porphyrin-fullerene-linked pentad" (English presentation) Masanori Yamamoto The 96th Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan, May 2016 |
| 4. | Hatano Foundation Award in Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials Title "Heat-pump using a deformation-induced gas-liquid phase transition of flexible porous carbon materials" Masanori Yamamoto IMRAM, Tohoku University, December 2018 |
| 5. | Young Researchers Award Title "Molecular engineering approach towards the understanding and the functionalization of carbon materials" Masanori Yamamoto The 5th Ensemble Workshop for Young Researchers, June 2019 |
Service Activities
| 2018 | Reviewer of Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical |
| 2019 | Reviewer of International Journal of Refrigeration |