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Seiji Shinkai Commemorative Issue
This issue is to commemorate Seiji Shinkai's 65th birthday and celebrates his contribution to chemistry.
Authors from all over the world were invited to contribute to this issue by Dr Tony James, from the University of Bath in the UK.
All the contributions have been published in regular issues of ChemComm, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, the New Journal of Chemistry, CrystEngComm and Analyst and then collated into this high quality issue for presentation at the 4th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (21st - 25th June), in Maastricht, Netherlands.
He was born in 1944 in Fukuoka, Japan, and received his Ph.D. in 1972 from Kyushu University. After postdoctoral work with Thomas C. Bruice at the University of California, Santa Barbara he joined Kyushu University in 1974 and became a full professor there in 1988.
He directed the Shinkai Chemirecognics (1990-1995), Chemotransfiguration (1997-2001) and SORST (2002-2007) projects and was leader of the COE projects entitled "Design and Control of Advanced Molecular Assembly Systems" (1998-2002) and "Functional Innovation of Molecular Informatics" (2002-2007).
His research interests include host-guest chemistry, molecular recognition, sugar sensing, allosteric functions, organogels, sol-gel transcription and polysaccharide-polynucleotide interactions. He is particularly well-known for his "design" of a molecular machine using photoresponsive crown ethers. He has 938 publications up to the end of 2008 including many in RSC journals, for example 97 Chemical Communications. He also has a h-index of 80 (May 1st 2009).
Chemical Communications articles
A BODIPY boronium cation for the sensing of fluoride ions
Todd W. Hudnall and François P. Gabbaï, Chem. Commun., 2008, 4596
DOI: 10.1039/b808740g
Molecular recognition, fluorescence sensing, and biological assay of phosphate anion derivatives using artificial Zn(II)–Dpa complexes
Takashi Sakamoto, Akio Ojida and Itaru Hamachi, Chem. Commun., 2009, 141
DOI: 10.1039/b812374h
Ferrocenium salts mediate para-tert-butylcalixarene synthesis
Sean P. Bew, Myles R. Cheesman and Sunil V. Sharma, Chem. Commun., 2008, 5731
DOI: 10.1039/b813789g
Dye displacement assay for saccharide detection with boronate hydrogels
Winson M. J. Ma, Marta P. Pereira Morais, François D
Hooge, Jean M. H. van den Elsen, Jonathan P. L. Cox, Tony D. James and John S. Fossey, Chem. Commun., 2009, 532
DOI: 10.1039/b814379j
Cucurbit[n]urils: from mechanism to structure and function
Lyle Isaacs, Chem. Commun., 2009, 619
DOI: 10.1039/b814897j
meso-Octamethylcalix[4]pyrrole: an old yet new transmembrane ion-pair transporter
Christine C. Tong, Roberto Quesada, Jonathan L. Sessler and Philip A. Gale, Chem. Commun., 2008, 6321
DOI: 10.1039/b814988g
Controlled self-sorting in the assembly of 
multi-gelator gels
Jamie R. Moffat and David K. Smith, Chem. Commun., 2009, 316
DOI: 10.1039/b818058j
Manipulation of fluorescent and colorimetric changes of fluorescein derivatives and applications for sensing silver ions
K. M. K. Swamy, Ha Na Kim, Jung Huyn Soh, Youngmee Kim, Sung-Jin Kim and Juyoung Yoon, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1234
DOI: 10.1039/b819538b
Reversible stability switching of a hairpin DNA via a photo-responsive linker unit
Li Wu, Kazuya Koumoto and Naoki Sugimoto, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1915
DOI: 10.1039/b819643e
Selective glucose recognition by boronic acid azoprobe/
-cyclodextrin complexes in water
Chie Shimpuku, Rimiko Ozawa, Akira Sasaki, Fuyuki Sato, Takeshi Hashimoto, Akiyo Yamauchi, Iwao Suzuki and Takashi Hayashita, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1709
DOI: 10.1039/b819938h
Direct and short-time uptake of [70]fullerene into the cell membrane using an exchange reaction from a [70]fullerene–
-cyclodextrin complex and the resulting photodynamic activity
Atsushi Ikeda, Masashi Matsumoto, Motofusa Akiyama, Jun-ichi Kikuchi, Takuya Ogawa and Tatsuo Takeya, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1547
DOI: 10.1039/b820768b
Multiply reconfigurable plug and play molecular logic via self-assembly
A. Prasanna de Silva, Catherine M. Dobbin, Thomas P. Vance and Boontana Wannalerse, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1386
DOI: 10.1039/b822181b
Enhanced control over metal composition in mixed Ga/Zn and Ga/Cu coordinated pyrogallol[4]arene nanocapsules
Ping Jin, Scott J. Dalgarno, John E. Warren, Simon J. Teat and Jerry L. Atwood, Chem. Commun., 2009, 3348
DOI: 10.1039/b822430g
A dual-ion-switched molecular brake based on ferrocene
Dong Zhang, Qiong Zhang, Jianhua Su and He Tian, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1700
DOI: 10.1039/b823073k
Solvent-responsive polymer nanocapsules with controlled permeability: encapsulation and release of a fluorescent dye by swelling and deswelling
Eunju Kim, Jiyeong Lee, Dongwoo Kim, Kyung Eun Lee, Sung Sik Han, Namseok Lim, Juseok Kang, Chan Gyung Park and Kimoon Kim, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1472
DOI: 10.1039/b823110a
Catechol boronate formation and its electrochemical oxidation
Lu Zhang, Justin A. Kerszulis, Ronald J. Clark, Tao Ye and Lei Zhu, Chem. Commun., 2009, 2151
DOI: 10.1039/b900016j
Amine-triggered molecular capsules using dynamic boronate esterification
Kenichi Kataoka, Sachiko Okuyama, Tsuyoshi Minami, Tony D. James and Yuji Kubo, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1682
DOI: 10.1039/b900102f
Helicity induction on water-soluble oligoresorcinols in alkaline water and their application to chirality sensing
Hidetoshi Goto, Yoshio Furusho and Eiji Yashima, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1650
DOI: 10.1039/b900113a
Self-assembly of cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene)s
Kana Tanabe and Takashi Kato, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1864
DOI: 10.1039/b900140a
Model systems for flavoenzyme activity: an investigation of the role functionality attached to the C(7) position of the flavin unit has on redox and molecular recognition properties
Stuart T. Caldwell, Louis J. Farrugia, Shanika Gunatilaka Hewage, Nadiya Kryvokhyzha, Vincent M. Rotello and Graeme Cooke, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1350
DOI: 10.1039/b900269n
Asymmetric induction of supramolecular helicity in calix[4]arene-based triple-stranded helicate
Takeharu Haino, Hidemi Shio, Ryuji Takano and Yoshimasa Fukazawa, Chem. Commun., 2009, 2481
DOI: 10.1039/b900599d
Boronolectin with divergent fluorescent response specific for free sialic acid
Stephan M. Levonis, Milton J. Kiefel and Todd A. Houston, Chem. Commun., 2009, 2278
DOI: 10.1039/b900836p
Fluorescent chemosensor for reactive organohalides in micellar solution with an example of autocatalysis
Jung-Jae Lee and Bradley D. Smith, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1962
DOI: 10.1039/b900963a
Azacrown-attached meta-ethynylpyridine polymer: saccharide recognition regulated by supramolecular device
Hajime Abe, Shunsuke Takashima, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto and Masahiko Inouye, Chem. Commun., 2009, 2121
DOI: 10.1039/b902269d
Prenucleation and coalescence of cobalt nanoclusters mediated by multivalent calixarene complexes
Jie Liu and Alexander Wei, Chem. Commun., 2009, 4254
DOI: 10.1039/b903954f
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry articles
Solid-phase synthesis of a library of linear oligoester ion-channels
Thomas Murray Fyles and Horace Luong, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 725
DOI: 10.1039/b816648j
Structure–activity relationships in linear oligoester ion-channels
Thomas Murray Fyles and Horace Luong, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 733
DOI: 10.1039/b816649h
Enantioselective lactate binding by chiral tripodal anion hosts derived from amino acids
Anna Barnard, Sara Jane Dickson, Martin J. Paterson, Adam M. Todd and Jonathan W. Steed, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 1554
DOI: 10.1039/b817889e
Switching of polymerization activity of cinnamoyl-
-cyclodextrin
Motofumi Osaki, Yoshinori Takashima, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi and Akira Harada, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 1646
DOI: 10.1039/b818241h
Interlocked host rotaxane and catenane structures for sensing charged guest species via optical and electrochemical methodologies
Micha
J. Chmielewski, Jason J. Davis and Paul D. Beer, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 415
DOI: 10.1039/b818351a
Exploring the use of APTS as a fluorescent reporter dye for continuous glucose sensing
Zachary Sharrett, Soya Gamsey, Lacie Hirayama, Boaz Vilozny, Jeff T. Suri, Ritchie A. Wessling and Bakthan Singaram, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 1461
DOI: 10.1039/b821934f
Colorful methods to detect ion channels and pores: intravesicular chromogenic probes that respond to pH, pM and covalent capture
Sara M. Butterfield, Andreas Hennig and Stefan Matile, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 1784
DOI: 10.1039/b900130a
Cytochrome c-binding 
proteo-dendrimers
as new types of apoptosis inhibitors working in HeLa cell systems
Hideki Azuma, Yuuka Yoshida, Dharam Paul, Satoshi Shinoda, Hiroshi Tsukube and Takeshi Nagasaki, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 1700
DOI: 10.1039/b900154a
Evaluation of fluorescent polysaccharide nanoparticles for pH-sensing
Anja Schulz, Stephanie Hornig, Tim Liebert, Eckhard Birckner, Thomas Heinze and Gerhard J. Mohr, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 1884
DOI: 10.1039/b900260j
Manipulation of protein-complex function by using an engineered heterotrimeric coiled-coil switch
Toshihisa Mizuno, Kumiko Suzuki, Tatsuya Imai, Yuya Kitade, Yuji Furutani, Motonori Kudou, Masayuki Oda, Hideki Kandori, Kouhei Tsumoto and Toshiki Tanaka, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 3102
DOI: 10.1039/b901118h
CrystEngComm articles
Molecular tectonics: modulation of size and shape of cuboid 3-D coordination networks
Mei-Jin Lin, Abdelaziz Jouaiti, Nathalie Kyritsakas and Mir Wais Hosseini, CrystEngComm, 2009, 11, 189
DOI: 10.1039/b815695f
Analyst articles
Photonic crystal borax competitive binding carbohydrate sensing motif
Qingzhou Cui, Michelle M. Ward Muscatello and Sanford A. Asher, Analyst, 2009, 134, 875
DOI: 10.1039/b901017n
New Journal of Chemistry articles
Aromatic oligoamide macrocycles from the bimolecular coupling of folded oligomeric precursors
Liuqing Yang, Lijian Zhong, Kazuhiro Yamato, Xiaheng Zhang, Wen Feng, Pengchi Deng, Lihua Yuan, Xiao Cheng Zeng and Bing Gong, New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 729
DOI: 10.1039/b902495f
A surface plasmon enhanced fluorescence sensor platform
Souad A. Elfeky, François DHooge, Lora Poncel, Wenbo Chen, Semali P. Perera, Jean M. H. van den Elsen, Tony D. James, A. Toby A. Jenkins, Petra J. Cameron and John S. Fossey, New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 1466
DOI: 10.1039/b906125h
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