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Masaki Kawano is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with significant contributions in materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and organic chemistry. They also engage in studies within physical and theoretical chemistry, as well as electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist's work encompasses several core topics related to crystallization and solubility studies, along with X-ray diffraction in crystallography. Their research includes the synthesis and applications of metal-organic frameworks and polyoxometalates, and extends to crystallography and molecular interactions. Additional topics covered by their publications include covalent organic framework applications and luminescence and fluorescent materials.

Masaki Kawano has published extensively, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Crystal Growth & Design
  • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kawano include Hiroyoshi Ohtsu, Yuki Wada, Pavel M. Usov, Bun Chan, and Daisuke Hashizume.

Their recent publications include:

  • Triple Isomerism in 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks, 2024, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Vacancy Mediated Electrooxidation of 5-Hydroxymethyl Furfuryl Using Defect Engineered Layered Double Hydroxide Electrocatalysts, 2024, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Atomic-resolution structure analysis inside an adaptable porous framework, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Through-Space Charge Transfer in Copper Coordination Networks with Copper-Halide Guest Anions, 2021, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Drastically Accelerated Radical Recombination Kinetics of a Hexaarylbiimidazole Derivative, 2024, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Best Publications

  • Crystalline molecular flasks

    Yasuhide Inokuma;Masaki Kawano;Makoto Fujita

  • Finite, Spherical Coordination Networks that Self‐Organize from 36 Small Components

    Masahide Tominaga;Keisuke Suzuki;Masaki Kawano;Takahiro Kusukawa

  • Direct observation of crystalline-state guest exchange in coordination networks

    Masaki Kawano;Makoto Fujita

  • Fluorous Nanodroplets Structurally Confined in an Organopalladium Sphere

    Sota Sato;Junya Iida;Kosuke Suzuki;Masaki Kawano

  • X-ray observation of a transient hemiaminal trapped in a porous network

    Takehide Kawamichi;Tsuyoshi Haneda;Masaki Kawano;Masaki Kawano;Makoto Fujita

  • Asymmetric [2 + 2] olefin cross photoaddition in a self-assembled host with remote chiral auxiliaries.

    Yuki Nishioka;Takumi Yamaguchi;Masaki Kawano;Makoto Fujita

  • Endohedral Clusterization of Ten Water Molecules into a “Molecular Ice” within the Hydrophobic Pocket of a Self-Assembled Cage

    Michito Yoshizawa;Takahiro Kusukawa;Masaki Kawano;Takashi Ohhara

  • Discrete Stacking of Large Aromatic Molecules within Organic-Pillared Coordination Cages

    Michito Yoshizawa;Junichi Nakagawa;Kazuhisa Kumazawa;Muneki Nagao

  • Crystal-to-crystal guest exchange of large organic molecules within a 3D coordination network.

    Osamu Ohmori;Masaki Kawano;Makoto Fujita

  • Alkane oxidation via photochemical excitation of a self-assembled molecular cage.

    Michito Yoshizawa;Sachiko Miyagi;Masaki Kawano;Katsuya Ishiguro

  • Solvato-Controlled Assembly of Pd3L6 and Pd4L8 Coordination “Boxes”†

    Kosuke Suzuki;Masaki Kawano;Makoto Fujita

  • Self-assembly of an M6L12 coordination cube.

    Kosuke Suzuki;Masahide Tominaga;Masaki Kawano;Makoto Fujita

  • In Situ Observation of a Reversible Single‐Crystal‐to‐Single‐Crystal Apical‐Ligand‐Exchange Reaction in a Hydrogen‐Bonded 2D Coordination Network

    Kanji Takaoka;Masaki Kawano;Masahide Tominaga;Makoto Fujita

  • Direct Crystallographic Observation of a Coordinatively Unsaturated Transition-Metal Complex in situ Generated within a Self-Assembled Cage

    Masaki Kawano;Yasuhiro Kobayashi;Tomoji Ozeki;Makoto Fujita

  • Direct observation of the labile imine formation through single-crystal-to-single-crystal reactions in the pores of a porous coordination network.

    Tsuyoshi Haneda;Masaki Kawano;Takehide Kawamichi;Makoto Fujita

  • Sequence-selective recognition of peptides within the single binding pocket of a self-assembled coordination cage.

    Shohei Tashiro;Masahide Tominaga;Masaki Kawano;Bruno Therrien

  • Supramolecular Nanostructures of Chiral Perylene Diimides with Amplified Chirality for High-Performance Chiroptical Sensing.

    Xiaobo Shang;Inho Song;Hiroyoshi Ohtsu;Yoon Ho Lee

  • THE FIRST IN SITU DIRECT OBSERVATION OF THE LIGHT-INDUCED RADICAL PAIR FROM A HEXAARYLBIIMIDAZOLYL DERIVATIVE BY X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

    Masaki Kawano;Tomokatsu Sano;Jiro Abe;Yuji Ohashi

  • The modular synthesis of functional porous coordination networks.

    Masaki Kawano;Takehide Kawamichi;Tsuyoshi Haneda;Takahiro Kojima

  • A Two‐in‐One Crystal: Uptake of Two Different Guests into Two Distinct Channels of a Biporous Coordination Network

    Osamu Ohmori;Masaki Kawano;Makoto Fujita

  • PdII-directed dynamic assembly of a dodecapyridine ligand into end-capped and open tubes: the importance of kinetic control in self-assembly.

    Shohei Tashiro;Masahide Tominaga;Takahiro Kusukawa;Masaki Kawano

Frequent Co-Authors

Makoto Fujita
Makoto Fujita University of Tokyo
Yuji Ohashi
Yuji Ohashi Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takahiko Kojima
Takahiko Kojima University of Tsukuba
Kentaro Yamaguchi
Kentaro Yamaguchi Tokushima Bunri University
Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Joon Hak Oh
Joon Hak Oh Seoul National University
Shigeru Sakamoto
Shigeru Sakamoto Chiba University
Yoshitaka Matsushita
Yoshitaka Matsushita National Institute for Materials Science
Masahiro Yamashita
Masahiro Yamashita Tohoku University

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