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2025

  1. NEW! Yohei Hattori,* Ryota Matsuoka,* Atsumi Baba, Shun Yoshida, Mihoko Yamada, Ryo Fujita, Daiya Suzuki, Yoshitane Imai, Kingo Uchida, Tetsuro Kusamoto, Gwénaël Rapenne, Tsuyoshi Kawai*
    "A Luminescent Stable Triarylmethyl Diradical with an Axially Chiral Spacer"
    Chem. Eur. J. in press. DOI:10.1002/chem.202500284 → link
  2. 2024

    1. Takuto Mibu,* Ryota Matsuoka, Masanari Nagasaka, and Tetsuro Kusamoto*
      "Emission enhancement in a luminescent polychlorinated diphenylpyridylmethyl radical through coordination to silver(I)"
      Dalton. Trans. 2024, 54, 2265-2270. → link
    2. Takuya Akiyama, Tetsuro Kusamoto, Kazushi Mashima, and Hayato Tsurugi*
      "Synthesis of Multisubstituted Cyclopentadiene Derivatives from 3,3-Disubstituted Cyclopropenes and Internal Alkynes Catalyzed by Low-Valent Niobium Complexes"
      J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 33338-33348. → link
    3. Sota Tamaki, Tetsuro Kusamoto, and Hayato Tsurugi*
      "Decarboxylative Alkylation of Carboxylic Acids with Easily Oxidizable Functional Groups Catalyzed by an Imidazole-Coordinated Fe3 Cluster under Visible Light Irradiation"
      Chem. Eur. J. 2024, 30, e202402705. → link
    4. Asato Mizuno,* Ryota Matsuoka, Shojiro Kimura, Keisuke Ochiai, and Tetsuro Kusamoto*
      "Spin-Correlated Luminescence of a Carbazole-Containing Diradical Emitter: Single-Molecule Magnetoluminescence and Thermally Activated Emission"
      J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 18470-18483. → link
    5. Asato Mizuno, Ryota Matsuoka, Takuto Mibu, and Tetsuro Kusamoto*
      "Luminescent Radicals"
      Chem. Rev. 2024, 124, 1034-1121. → link
    6. 2023

      1. Ryota Matsuoka,* Shojiro Kimura, Tomoaki Miura, Tadaaki Ikoma, and Tetsuro Kusamoto*
        "Single-molecule Magnetoluminescence from a Spatially Confined Persistent Diradical Emitter"
        J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 13615-13622. → link
      2. Yugo Oshima,* Taishi Takenobu, Jiang Pu, Keisuke Ishiguro, Reizo Kato, Hiroshi M. Yamamoto, and Tetsuro Kusamoto
        "A Memristive Oscillator"
        Adv. Physics Res. 2023, 2300117. → link
      3. Yohei Hattori,* Ryota Kitajima, Atsumi Baba, Kohei Yamamoto, Ryota Matsuoka, Tetsuro Kusamoto, and Kingo Uchida
        "Effects of hydrocarbon substituents on highly fluorescent bis(4-phenylphenyl)pyridylmethyl radical derivatives"
        Mater. Adv. 2023, 4, 5149-5159. → link
      4. 2022

        1. Hwan-Hee Cho, Shun Kimura, Neil C. Greenham, Yuki Tani, Ryota Matsuoka, Hiroshi Nishihara, Richard H. Friend,* Tetsuro Kusamoto,* and Emrys W. Evans*
          "Near-Infrared Light-Emitting Diodes from Organic Radicals with Charge Control"
          Adv. Opt. Mater. 2022, 10, 2200628. → link
        2. Ryota Matsuoka, Asato Mizuno, Takuto Mibu, and Tetsuro Kusamoto*
          "Luminescence of doublet molecular systems"
          Coord. Chem. Rev. 2022, 467, 214616. → link
        3. Tetsuro Kusamoto,* Chie Ohde, Shiori Sugiura, Satoshi Yamashita,* Ryota Matsuoka, Taichi Terashima, Yasuhiro Nakazawa, Hiroshi Nishihara,* and Shinya Uji*
          "An Organic Quantum Spin Liquid with Triangular Lattice: Spinon Fermi Surface and Scaling Behavior"
          Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2022, 95, 306-313. → link
        4. Taro Suemune, Keita Sonoda, Shuichi Suzuki, Hiroyasu Sato, Tetsuro Kusamoto, and Akira Ueda*
          "Partially Oxidized Purely Organic Zwitterionic Neutral Radical Conductor: Multi-step Phase Transitions and Crossover Caused by Intra- and Intermolecular Electronic Interactions"
          J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, in press. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c08813 → link
        5. Yohei Hattori,* Ryota Kitajima, Wataru Ota, Ryota Matsuoka, Tetsuro Kusamoto, Tohru Sato, and Kingo Uchida
          "The simplest structure of a stable radical showing high fluorescence efficiency in solution: benzene donors with triarylmethyl radicals"
          Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 13418-13425. → link
        6. Yohei Hattori,* Ryota Kitajima, Ryota Matsuoka, Tetsuro Kusamoto, Hiroshi Nishihara, and Kingo Uchida
          "Amplification of luminescence of stable radicals by coordination to NHC?gold(I) complex"
          Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 2560-2563. → link
        7. 2021

          1. Ryota Matsuoka, Tatsuhiro Yoshimoto, Yasutaka Kitagawa, and Tetsuro Kusamoto*
            "Structural and Magnetic Studies on Nickel(II) and Cobalt(II) Complexes with Polychlorinated Diphenyl(4-pyridyl)methyl Radical Ligands"
            Molecules 2021, 26, 5596. → link
          2. Tetsuro Kusamoto,* Shun Kimura
            "Photostable Luminescent Triarylmethyl Radicals and Their Metal Complexes: Photofunctions Unique to Open-shell Electronic States"
            Chem. Lett. 2021, 50, 1445-1459. OPEN ACCESSlink
          3. Ryota Matsuoka,* Shojiro Kimura, and Tetsuro Kusamoto*
            "Solid-State Room-Temperature Near-Infrared Photoluminescence of a Stable Organic Radical"
            ChemPhotoChem 2021, 5, 669-673. → link
          4. Shun Kimura, Ryota Matsuoka, Shojiro Kimura, Hiroshi Nishihara, and Tetsuro Kusamoto*
            "Radical-Based Coordination Polymers as a Platform for Magnetoluminescence"
            J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 5610-5615. → link
          5. Shun Kimura, Motoyuki Uejima, Wataru Ota, Tohru Sato, Shinpei Kusaka, Ryotaro Matsuda, Hiroshi Nishihara*, and Tetsuro Kusamoto*
            "An Open-shell, Luminescent, Two-Dimensional Coordination Polymer with a Honeycomb Lattice and Triangular Organic Radical"
            J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 4329-4338. → link
          6. Shun Kimura, Shojiro Kimura, Ken Kato, Yoshio Teki*, Hiroshi Nishihara*, and Tetsuro Kusamoto*
            "A ground-state-dominated magnetic field effect on the luminescence of stable organic radicals"
            Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 2025-2029. Selected as a part of the themed collection: 2020 Chemical Science HOT Article Collectionlink
            Selected as the Inside Front Coverlink
          7. Sara Mattiello, Francesca Corsini, Sara Mecca, Mauro Sassi, Riccardo Ruffo, Giuseppe Mattioli, Yohei Hattori, Tetsuro Kusamoto,* Gianmarco Griffini,* and Luca Beverina*
            "First demonstration of the use of stable open shell derivatives as organic luminophores for transparent Luminescent Solar Concentrators"
            Mater. Adv. 2021, 2, 7369-7378. → link
          8. Yohei Hattori,* Shunsuke Tsubaki, Ryota Matsuoka, Tetsuro Kusamoto, Hiroshi Nishihara, and Kingo Uchida*
            "Expansion of Photostable Luminescent Radicals by Meta-Substitution"
            Chem. Asian J. 2021, 16, 2538-2544. → link
          9. Ryo Yoshimoto, Satoshi Yamashita, Hiroki Akutsu, Yasuhiro Nakazawa*, Tetsuro Kusamoto, Yugo Oshima, Takehito Nakano, Hiroshi M. Yamamoto, and Reizo Kato
            "Electric dipole induced bulk ferromagnetism in dimer Mott molecular compounds"
            Sci. Rep. 2021, 1332. → link
          10. 2020

            1. Shun Kimura, Shojiro Kimura, Hiroshi Nishihara*, and Tetsuro Kusamoto*
              "Excimer emission and magnetoluminescence of radical-based zinc(II) complexes doped in host crystals"
              Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 11195-11198. Selected as a part of the themed collection: 2020 Emerging Investigatorslink
              Selected as the Inside Front Coverlink
            2. Chie Ohde, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, and Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Effects of halogen atom replacement on the structure and magnetic properties of a molecular crystal with supramolecular two-dimensional network mediated via sulfur's σ-holes"
              J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 2020, 497, 165986. → link
            3. Ryosuke Miyake*, Eri Suganuma, Shun Kimura, Hirotoshi Mori, Jun Okabayashi, and Tetsuro Kusamoto
              "Cyclic heterometallic interactions formed from a flexible tripeptide complex showing effective antiferromagnetic spin coupling"
              Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 60, 5179-5183. → link
            4. Hiroaki Maeda, Aayushi Bajpayee, Tetsuro Kusamoto, and Hiroshi Nishihara
              "Construction of Bis(2,6-bis(1-methylbenzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine)iron(II) Coordination Polymer for Incorporation of Magnetic Function"
              JIOPM 2020, 30, 147-152. → link

            2019

            1. Shun Kimura, Hikaru Uchida, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, and Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "One-dimensional magnetic chain composed of CuII and polychlorinated dipyridylphenylmethyl radical: temperature-dependent Jahn-Teller distortion correlated to π-conjugation and magnetic properties"
              Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 7090-7093. Selected as a HOT articlelink
            2. Akira Tanushi, Shun Kimura, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Moe Tomonaga, Yasutaka Kitagwa, Masayoshi Nakano, and Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "NIR Emission and Acid-Induced Intramolecular Electron Transfer Derived from a SOMO-HOMO Converted Non-Aufbau Electronic Structure"
              J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 4417-4423. → link
            3. Ken Kato, Shun Kimura, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Hiroshi Nishihara*, and Yoshio Teki*
              "Luminescent Radical‐Excimer: Excited‐State Dynamics of Luminescent Radicals in Doped Host Crystals"
              Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 2606-2611. Selected as a HOT paperlink
            4. Tetsuro Kusamoto* and Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Zero-, one- and two-dimensional bis(dithiolato)metal complexes with unique physical and chemical properties"
              Coord. Chem. Rev. 2019, 380, 419-439. → link
            5. Toyohiro Usui, Zhendong Liu, Hirokazu Igarashi, Yukichi Sasaki, Yuji Shiramata, Hiroki Yamada, Koji Ohara, Tetsuro Kusamoto, and Toru Wakihara*
              "Identifying the Factors Governing the Early-Stage Degradation of Cu-Chabazite Zeolite for NH3-SCR"
              ACS Omega 2019, 4, 3653-3659. → link
            6. Hiroshi Okada, Hiroshi Ueno, Yasuhiro Takabayashi, Takeshi Nakagawa, Martina Vrankic, John Arvanitidis, Tetsuro Kusamoto, Kosmas Prassides*, and Yutaka Matsuo*
              "Chemical reduction of Li+@C60 by decamethylferrocene to produce neutral Li+@C60•-"
              Carbon 2019, 153, 467-471. → link

            Selected publications before 2018

            1. Tetsuro Kusamoto* and Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Efficiency breakthrough for radical LEDs"
              Nature 2018, 563, 480-481. NEWS AND VIEWS →link
            2. Shun Kimura, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Shojiro Kimura, Ken Kato, Yoshio Teki, and Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Magnetoluminescence in a Photostable, Brightly Luminescent Organic Radical in a Rigid Environment"
              Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 12711-12715. Selected as VIP →link →Inside cover
            3. Shun Kimura, Akira Tanushi, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Shuntaro Kochi, Tohru Sato, and Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "A Luminescent Organic Radical with Two Pyridyl Groups: High Photostability, Dual Stimuli-Responsive Property, and Theoretical Analyses of Photophysical Processes"
              Chem. Sci. 2018, 9, 1996-2007. →link
            4. Yohei Hattori, Shun Kimura, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Hiroaki Maeda, and Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Cation-responsive turn-on fluorescence and absence of heavy atom effects of pyridyl-substituted triarylmethyl radicals"
              Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 615-618. →link
            5. Chie Ohde, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Koji Nakabayashi, Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Supramolecular Two-Dimensional Network Mediated via Sulfur's σ-Holes in a Conducting Molecular Crystal: Effects of Its Rigidity on Physical Properties and Structural Transition"
              Cryst. Growth Des. 2017, 17, 2230-2210. →link
            6. Yasuyo Ogino, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Yohei Hattori, Masaki Shimada, Mizuho Tsuchiya, Yoshinori Yamanoi, Eiji Nishibori, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Solvent-Controlled Doublet Emission of an Organometallic Gold(I) Complex with a Polychlorinated Diphenyl(4-pyridyl)methyl Radical Ligand: Dual Fluorescence and Enhanced Emission Efficiency"
              Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 3909-3915. →link
            7. Yohei Hattori, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Tohru Sato, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Synergistic Luminescence Enhancement of a Pyridyl-substituted Triarylmethyl Radical Based on Fluorine Substitution and Coordination to Gold"
              Chem.Comm. 2016, 52, 13393-13396. →link
            8. Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Shun Kimura, Yasuyo Ogino, Chie Ohde, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Modulated Luminescence of a Stable Open-shell Triarylmethyl Radical: Effects of Chemical Modification on its Electronic Structure and Physical Properties"
              Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 17725-17733. →link
            9. Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Shun Kimura, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Structural and Magnetic Investigations of a Heterospin System Composed of High-spin Mn(II) and Pyridyl-containing Triarylmethyl Radicals"
              Chem Lett. 2016, 45, 1057-1059. →link
            10. Yohei Hattori, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Highly Photostable Luminescent Open-shell (3,5-Dihalo-4-pyridyl)bis(2,4,6-trichlorotrichlorophenyl)methyl Radicals: Significant Effects of Halogen Atoms on Their Photophysical and Photochemical Properties"
              RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 64802-64805. →link
            11. Akira Tanushi, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Yohei Hattori, Kenji Takada, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Spin-Reconstructed Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in a Ferrocene-Nickeladithiolene Hybrid"
              J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 6448-6451. →link
            12. Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Yohei Hattori, Akira Tanushi, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Intramolecular Ferromagnetic Radical-CuII Coupling in a CuII Complex Ligated with Pyridyl-Substituted Triarylmethyl Radicals"
              Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 4186-4188. →link
            13. Yohei Hattori, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Enhanced Luminescent Properties of an Open-Shell (3,5-Dichloro-4-pyridyl)bis(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl)methyl Radical by Coordination to Gold"
              Angew. Chem. Int. Ed 2015, 54, 3731-3734. →link
            14. Yohei Hattori, Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Luminescence, Stability, and Proton Response of an Open-Shell (3,5-Dichloro-4-pyridyl)bis(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl)methyl Radical"
              Angew. Chem. Int. Ed 2014, 53, 11845-11848. →link
            15. Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Hiroshi Nishihara, Reizo Kato
              "Substituent-Dependent Spin-Density Distribution and Coexistence of Fe 3d and π Spins on Ferrocene-Tetrathiafulvalene Hybrids"
              Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 13809-13811. →link
            16. Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Hiroshi M. Yamamoto, Reizo Kato
              "Utilization of σ-Holes on Sulfur and Halogen Atoms for Supramolecular Cation-Anion Interactions in Bilayer Ni(dmit)2 Anion Radical Salts"
              Cryst. Growth Des. 2013, 13, 4533-4541. →link
            17. Tetsuro Kusamoto*, Hiroshi M. Yamamoto, Naoya Tajima, Yugo Oshima, Satoshi Yamashita, Reizo Kato
              "Bilayer Mott System with Cation…Anion Supramolecular Interactions Based on Nickel Dithiolene Anion Radical:Coexistence of Ferro- and Antiferromagnetic Anion Layers and Large Negative Magnetoresistance"
              Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 4759-4761. →link
            18. Tetsuro Kusamoto, Kenji Takada, Ryota Sakamoto, Shoko Kume, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Ferrocene-Dithiolene Hybrids: Control of Strong Donor-Acceptor Electronic Communication to Reverse the Charge Transfer Direction"
              Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 12102-12113. Selected as a Cover Art →link
            19. Tetsuro Kusamoto,* Hiroshi M. Yamamoto, Naoya Tajima, Yugo Oshima, Satoshi Yamashita, Reizo Kato
              "Bilayer Mott System Based on Ni(dmit)2 (dmit = 1,3-dithiole-2-thione-4,5-dithiolate) Anion Radicals: Two Isostructural Salts Exhibit Contrasting Magnetic Behavior"
              Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 11645-11654. →link
            20. Tetsuro Kusamoto, Shoko Kume, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Cyclization of TEMPO Radicals Bound to Metalladithiolene Induced by SOMO-HOMO Level Conversion"
              Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 529-531. →link
            21. Tetsuro Kusamoto, Jaime Ruiz, Didier Astruc*
              "Towards Molecular Batteries: Coverage of Small Aminosilica Nanoparticles with Ferrocenyl and Pentamethylferrocenyl Groups and Their Redox Properties"
              New. J. Chem. 2009, 33, 2204-2207. →link
            22. Tetsuro Kusamoto, Shoko Kume, Hiroshi Nishihara*
              "Realization of SOMO-HOMO Level Conversion for a TEMPO-Dithiolate Ligand by Coordination to Platinum(II)"
              J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 13844-13845. →link
            23. Tetsuro Kusamoto, Emiko Fujiwara, Akiko Kobayashi,* Hengbo Cui, Takeo Otsuka, Yoshinori Okano, Hideki Fujiwara, Hayao Kobayashi
              "BDT-TTP-Based π Conductors Containing Divalent Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Anions, [MIICl4]2- (M = Co, Mn, Zn)"
              Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2006, 79, 527-536. BCSJ Award article →link
            24. Tetsuro Kusamoto, Emiko Fujiwara, Akiko Kobayashi,*
              "Molecule-based Weak Ferromagnet with Unique Magnetic Multiphases"
              Chem. Lett. 2005, 36, 858-859. →link