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• Miss Tam got a 2024 Academic Encouragement Award for Students. Congrats!
• Miss Tam got a Poster Prize at the 1st Joint Symposium of Hiroshima-Yonsei University. Congrats.
• Tam's study on "Design and synthesis of a 2,5-Diarylthiophene chromophore for enhanced near-infrared two-photon uncaging efficiency of calcium ions" was published in Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences:  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43630-024-00623-5
• Anna Tiefel and Mostafa joined our group.
• Mr. Eslam ROSHDY got a Poster Prize at the annual meeting of Photochemistry in Fukuoka. Congrats.
• Mr. Ku Kajikawa got a Poster Prize at the 26th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC) 2024 in Beijing. Congrats.
• Zhang san's paper was published in Chemistry Letters in 2024.
• Miyaji san's paper was published in ACS Catalysis.
• A collaboration paper with Anna D. Gudmundsdottir (University of Cincinnati) has been published in The Journal of Organic Chemistry.α-Cleavage of 2,2-Diazido-2,3-dihydroinden-1-one in Solution and Cryogenic Matrices, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.4c00499.
• A collaboration paper with Michael Lazarus and Tsuyoshi Saitoh (Tsukuba University) has been published in Nature Communications. Optochemical control of slow-wave sleep in the nucleus accumbens of male mice by a photoactivatable allosteric modulator of adenosine A2A receptors, Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 3661.
• A collaboration paper with Fan-Ching Chien and Tzu-Chau Lin (National Central University, Taiwan) has been published in Angew. Chem. Temporal-Focusing Multiphoton Excitation Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy Using Spontaneously Blinking Fluorophores, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 10.1002/anie.202404942
• Professor Ishitani's group join us!
• Professor Graham Bodwell's lecture will be held on April 10 at 401N, Synthesis, Properties and Chemistry of Cyclophanes Containing Nonplanar Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons.
• Dang's study on "Crucial Roles of Leaving Group and Open-shell Cation in Photoreaction of (Coumarin-4-yl)methyl Derivatives" was accepted for publication in Journal of the American Chemical Society, ja-2024-028802
• Phong's study on "Development of a Two-Photon Responsive Chromophore, 2-(p-Aminophenyl)-5,6-dimethoxy-1-(hydroxyinden-3-yl)methyl Derivative, as Photoremovable Protecting Group" was accepted for publication in The Journal of Organic Chemistry, jo-2023-029433
• A collaboration paper with Yasuda&Nishimoto' group has been published in Angew. Chem. Sequential C–F Bond Transformation of the Difluoromethylene Unit in Perfluoroalkyl Groups: A Combination of Fine‐Tuned Phenothiazine Photoredox Catalyst and Lewis Acid, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202401117
• A collaboration paper with Ellis-Davies's group has been published in Angew. Chem. Bidirectional neuronal actuation by uncaging with violet and green light, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ange.202315726
• Takano's paper is accepted for publication in EurJOC, a special issue of Physical Organic Chemistry. Substituent Effects on the Electronic Ground State (Singlet versus Triplet) of Indenyl Cations: DFT and CASPT2 Studies, Takano, M.; Antol, I.; Abe, M. EurJOC, in press, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202301226
• A collaboration paper with Nokami's group has been accepted for publication in ChemElectroChem. Formation of Sterically Congested C─N by Electrochemical Reductive Coupling of Amines and α-Bromocarboxamides; celc.202300636
• A collaboration paper with Minakata's group has been accepted for publication in Chemical Science. Photoexcitation of (Diarylmethylene)amino Benziodoxolones for Alkylamination of Styrene Derivatives with Carboxylic Acids, DOI: 10.1039/D3SC06090J
• Onishi & Liu's study on "Energetically More Stable Singlet Cyclopentane-1,3-diyl Diradical with π-Single Bonding Character than the Corresponding σ-Single Bonded Compound" has been accepted for publication in Journal of American Chemical Society, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.3c10971
  
• Itasaka, Kajikawa, Horio presented their research at SEST 2023.
• Takano and Eslam was selected as a recipient of the 2023 Academic Award of the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University. 
  
• Kajikawa's poster was won the 2nd prize Poster Award at the Solvation Chemistry and Reactive Molecules 2023. 

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