2023

• Rapid Analysis of Trace Amounts of Amino Acid Derivatives by a Formyl Group-Installed Crystalline Sponge
  B. Zhou, S. Utjapimuk, K. Yan, R. Dubey, T. Kikuchi, T. Mitsuhashi, M. Fujita
  Chem. Eur. J. 2023, Accepted, . [ 10.1002/asia.202300969 ]
• Function and Structure of a Terpene Synthase Encoded in a Giant Virus Genome
  Y. Jung, T. Mitsuhashi, S. Sato, M. Senda, T. Senda, M. Fujita
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 25966–25970. [ 10.1021/jacs.3c10603 ]
• Chemical Site-Differentiation of Calix[4]arenes through Enforced Conformations by Confinement in a Cage
  K. Iizuka, H. Takezawa, M. Fujita
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 25971–25975. [ 10.1021/jacs.3c10720 ]
• Tetradehydro-Diels-Alder Reactions of Flexible Arylalkynes via Folding Inside a Molecular Cage
  G. R. Genov, H. Takezawa, H. Hayakawa, M. Fujita
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 17013–17017. [ 10.1021/jacs.3c06301 ]
• X-ray and Electron Diffraction Observations of Steric Zipper Interactions in Metal-Induced Peptide Cross-β Nanostructures
  E. Tsunekawa, Y. Otsubo, Y. Yamada, A. Ikeda, N. Adachi, M. Kawasaki, A. Takasu, S. Aramaki, T. Senda, S. Sato, S. Yoshida, M. Fujita, T. Sawada
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 16160–16165. [ 10.1021/jacs.3c04710 ]
• Synthetic Modulation of an Unstable Dehydrosecodine-type Intermediate and Its Encapsulation into a Confined Cavity Enable Its X-ray Crystallographic Observation
  G. Tay, T. Wayama, H. Takezawa, S. Yoshida, S. Sato, M. Fujita, H. Oguri
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202305122. [ 10.1002/anie.202305122 ]
• Interconversion of Highly Entangled Polyhedra into Concave Polyhedra by Nitrate-Induced Ternary Coordination
  Y. Domoto, M. Abe, G. R. Genov, Z. Yu, M. Fujita
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202303714. [ 10.1002/anie.202303714 ]
• Hysteresis behavior in the unfolding/refolding processes of a protein trapped in metallo-cages
  T. Nakama, A. Rossen, R. Ebihara, M. Yagi-Utsumi, D. Fujita, K. Kato, S. Sato, M. Fujita
  Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 2910–2914. [ 10.1039/D2SC05879K ]

2022

• Self-Assembled Coordination Cage Enhances Reactivity of Confined Amides via Mechanical Bond-Twisting
  H. Tamura, H. Takezawa, M. Fujita, H. Ishikita
  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2022, 24, 21367–21371. [ 10.1039/D2CP03126D ]
• Selective Confinement of Rare-Earth-Metal Hydrates by a Capped Metallo-Cage under Aqueous Conditions
  R. Tabuchi, H. Takezawa, M. Fujita
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202208866. [ 10.1002/anie.202208866 ]
• Self-assembly of nanostructures with high complexity based on metal⋯unsaturated-bond coordination
  Y. Domoto, M. Fujita
  Coord. Chem. Rev. 2022, 466, 214605. [ 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214605 ]
• Electrophilic Spirocyclization of a 2-Biphenylacetylene via Conformational Fixing within a Hollow-Cage Host
  H. Takezawa, Y. Fujii, T. Murase, M. Fujita
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202203970. [ 10.1002/anie.202203970 ]
• Amplification of weak chiral inductions for excellent control over the helical orientation of discrete topologically chiral (M₃L₂)_n polyhedra
  Y. Domoto, K. Yamamoto, S. Horie, Z. Yu, M. Fujita
  Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 4372-4376. [ 10.1039/D2SC00111J ]
• Comprehensive Structural Analysis of the Bitter Components in Beer by the HPLC-assisted Crystalline Sponge Method
  Y. Taniguchi, T. Kikuchi, S. Sato, M. Fujita
  Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202103339. [ 10.1002/chem.202103339 ]
• Structure Analysis of Polyhalogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants by the Crystalline Sponge Method
  J. Chen, T. Kikuchi, K. Takagi, H. Kiyota, K. Adachi, T. Mitsuhashi, M. Fujita
  Chem. Lett. 2022, 51, 85-87. [ 10.1246/cl.210613 ]

2021

• Solvent Effects in the Crystalline Sponge Method: Importance of Co-solvents for Ordering Absorbed Guests
  N. Wada, K. Kageyama, Y. Jung, T. Mitsuhashi, M. Fujita
  Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 9288-9291. [ 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c03660 ]
• Metal−Peptide Nonafoil Knots and Decafoil Supercoils
  Y. Inomata, T. Sawada, M. Fujita
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 16734–16739. [ 10.1021/jacs.1c08094 ]
• Protein stabilization and refolding in a gigantic self-assembled cage
  D. Fujita, R. Suzuki, Y. Fujii, M. Yamada, T. Nakama, A. Matsugami, F. Hayashi, J.-K. Weng, M. Yagi-Utsumi, M. Fujita
  Chem 2021, 7, 2672–2683. [ 10.1016/j.chempr.2021.08.005 ]
• Molecular Confinement Effects by Self-Assembled Coordination Cages
  H. Takezawa, M. Fujita
  Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2021, 94, 2351–2369. [ 10.1246/bcsj.20210273 ]
• Orderly Entangled Nanostructures of Metal–Peptide Strands
  T. Sawada, M. Fujita
  Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2021, 94, 2342–2350. [ 10.1246/bcsj.20210218 ]
• An Ir₃L₂ complex with anion binding pockets: photocatalytic E–Z isomerization via molecular recognition
  H. Sunohara, K. Koyamada, H. Takezawa, M. Fujita
  Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 9300–9302. [ 10.1039/D1CC03620C ]
• Crystalline Sponge Method: X-ray Structure Analysis of Small Molecules via Post-Orientation within Porous Crystals. Principle and Proof-of-Concept Studies
  N. Zigon, V. Duplan, N. Wada, M. Fujita
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 25204-25222. [ 10.1002/anie.202106265 ]
• A Highly Entangled (M₃L₂)₈ Truncated Cube from the Anion-Controlled Oligomerization of a π-Coordinated M₃L₂ Subunit
  Y. Domoto, M. Abe, M. Fujita
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 8578-8582. [ 10.1021/jacs.1c03208 ]
• Parallel and antiparallel peptide double β‐helices controlled by metal‐induced folding and assembly
  T. Sawada, W. Iwasaki, M. Yamagami, M. Fujita
  Nat. Sci. 2021, 1, e10008. [ 10.1002/ntls.10008 ]
• Absolute Configuration Determination from Low ee Compounds by the Crystalline Sponge Method. Unusual Conglomerate Formation in a Pre‐Determined Crystalline Lattice
  R. Dubey, K. Yan, T. Kikuchi, S. Sairenji, A. Rossen, S. S. Goh, B. L. Feringa, M. Fujita
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 11809-11813. [ 10.1002/anie.202102559 ]

2020

• Colletofurans A−E, 1-Octyl-1,3-dihydroisobenzofuran Derivatives from Colletotrichum boninense AM-12-2
  N. R. Ariefta, M. Azim, T. Aboshi, T. Koseki, Y. Taniguchi, M. Fujita, Y. Shiono
  Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 3161-3165. [ 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c00925 ]
• Exploiting the Potential of Meroterpenoid Cyclases to Expand the Chemical Space of Fungal Meroterpenoids
  T. Mitsuhashi, L. Barra, Z. Powers, V. Kojasoy, An. Cheng, F. Yang, Y. Taniguchi, T. Kikuchi, M. Fujita, D. J. Tantillo, J. A. Porco Jr., I. Abe
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 23772-23781. [ 10.1002/anie.202011171 ]
• Confinement of Water-Soluble Cationic Substrates in a Cationic Molecular Cage by Capping the Portals with Tripodal Anions
  H. Takezawa, R. Tabuchi, H. Sunohara, M. Fujita
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 17919-17922. [ 10.1021/jacs.0c08835 ]
• “Eggs in Egg Cartons”: Co-crystallization to Embed Molecular Cages into Crystalline Lattices
  Y. Domoto, M. Abe, K. Yamamoto, T. Kikuchi, M. Fujita
  Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 10457-10460. [ 10.1039/D0SC03191G ]
• Folding and Assembly of Metal-Linked Peptidic Nanostructures
  T. Sawada, M. Fujita
  Chem 2020, 6, 1861-1876. [ 10.1016/j.chempr.2020.07.002 ]
• X-ray Crystallographic Observation of Chiral Transformations Within a Metal–Peptide Pore
  A. Saito, T. Sawada, M. Fujita
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 20367-20370. [ 10.1002/anie.202007731 ]
• A Robust Double-Walled Knotted Cage Revealed Guest Binding through Adaptive Portal Expansion
  Y. Tamura, H. Takezawa, M. Fujita
  Chem. Lett. 2020, 49, 912-914. [ 10.1246/cl.200282 ]
• Enhanced reactivity of twisted amides inside a molecular cage
  H. Takezawa, K. Shitozawa, M. Fujita
  Nat. Chem. 2020, 12, 574-578. [ 10.1038/s41557-020-0455-y ]
• Synthetic-Biology-Based Discovery of a Fungal Macrolide from Macrophomina Phaseolina
  Y. Morishita, T. Sonohara, T. Taniguchi, K. Adachi, M. Fujita and T. Asai
  Org. Biomol. Chem. 2020, 18, 2813-2816. [ 10.1039/D0OB00519C ]
• A Double-Walled Knotted Cage for Guest-Adaptive Molecular Recognition
  Y. Tamura, H. Takezawa, M. Fujita
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 5504-5508. [ 10.1021/jacs.0c00459 ]
• Exploiting a C–N bond Forming Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenase for C–S Bond Formation
  I. Morita, T. Mori, T. Mitsuhashi, S. Hoshino, Y. Taniguchi, T. Kikuchi, K. Nagae, N. Nasu, M. Fujita, T. Ohkawa, I. Abe
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 3988-3993. [ 10.1002/anie.201916269 ]
• Metal-Peptide Torus Knots from Flexible Short Peptides
  Y. Inomata, T. Sawada, M. Fujita
  Chem 2020, 6, 294-303. [ 10.1016/j.chempr.2019.12.009 ]
• Self-Assembly of Coordination Polyhedra with Highly Entangled Faces Induced by Metal–Acetylene Interactions
  Y. Domoto, M. Abe, T. Kikuchi, M. Fujita
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 3450-3454. [ 10.1002/anie.201913142 ]