1.        Polymers containing pendant oligothiophenes as a novel class of electrochromic materials

       Journal of Materials Chemistry (1993), 3(1), 113-14

       Nawa, Kazunari; Miyawaki, Kenji; Imae, Ichiro; Noma, Naoki; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

2.        A novel type of semiconducting polymers: synthesis and properties of electrochemically doped polymers containing pendant oligothiophenes

       Synthetic Metals (1993), 55(2-3), 1176-81

       Nawa, Kazunari; Miyawaki, Kenji; Imae, Ichiro; Noma, Naoki; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

3.        Synthesis of a novel type of electrochemically doped vinyl polymer containing pendant terthiophene and its electrical and electrochromic properties

       Macromolecules (1995), 28(3), 723-9

       Nawa, Kazunari; Imae, Ichiro; Noma, Naoki; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

4.        Synthesis and electrical properties of novel electrochemically-doped vinyl polymers containing 'end-capped' quaterthiophene and quinquethiophene as pendant groups

       Synthetic Metals (1995), 69(1-3), 285-6

       Imae, Ichiro; Moriwaki, Kazuyuki; Nawa, Kazunari; Noma, Naoki; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

5.        Electrochromic and photoelectrical properties of electrochemically doped vinyl polymers containing pendant p-electron systems

       Transactions of the Materials Research Society of Japan (1994), 15A, 309-14

       Shirota, Yasuhiko; Noma, Naoki; Namba, Katsuhiko; Nawa, Kazunari; Imae, Ichiro

 

6.        Electrochemical doping of a-ethyl-disubstituted oligothiophenes and electrical conductivities of the resulting radical-cation salts

       Journal of Materials Chemistry (1996), 6(1), 117-18

       Noma, Naoki; Kawaguchi, Kazuhiro; Imae, Ichiro; Nakano, Hideyuki; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

7.        Synthesis and electrochromic properties of a methacrylate polymer containing pendant terthiophene

       Synthetic Metals (1996), 81(2-3), 157-162

       Ohsedo, Yutaka; Imae, Ichiro; Noma, Naoki; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

8.        Synthesis of a novel family of electrochemically-doped vinyl polymers containing pendant oligothiophenes and their electrical and electrochromic properties

       Macromolecules (1997), 30(3), 380-386

       Imae, Ichiro; Nawa, Kazunari; Ohsedo, Yutaka; Noma, Naoki; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

9.        Preparation and electrical conductivities of oligothiophene radical-cation salts

       Synthetic Metals (1997), 84(1-3), 597-598

       Noma, Naoki; Kawaguchi, Kazuhiro; Imae, Ichiro; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

10.    5,5''-bis{4-[bis(4-methylphenyl)amino]phenyl}-2,2':5',2''-terthiophene and 5,5'''-bis{4-[bis(4-methylphenyl)amino]phenyl}-2,2':5',2'':5'',2'''-quaterthiophene as a novel family of amorphous molecular materials

       Advanced Materials (1997), 9(3), 239-241

       Noda, Tetsuya; Imae, Ichiro; Noma, Naoki; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

11.    Electrochromic properties of a vinyl polymer containing pendant 1,4-di(2-thienyl)benzene

       Synthetic Metals (1997), 85(1-3), 1385-1386

       Imae, Ichiro; Noma, Naoki; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

12.    Elucidation of the stereochemical pathway to isotactic poly[(methylphenylsilylene)trimethylene] from allylmethylphenylsilane

       Polymer Journal (1998), 30(12), 1001-1003

       Kawakami, Yusuke; Takahashi, Toshiyuki; Yada, Yukio; Imae, Ichiro

 

13.    Synthesis and optical activity of polyamides derived from optically active spiro[3.3]heptane-2,6-dicarboxylic acid

       Polymer Journal (1999), 31(3), 313-315

       Tang, Hongzhi; Baba, Masaki; Imae, Ichiro; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

14.    Functionality and stereochemical design of silicon-containing polymers

       Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics (1999), 200(6), 1245-1256

       Kawakami, Yusuke; Imae, Ichiro

 

15.    Structure and electrical conductivity of a solid salt obtained by electrochemical oxidation of a thiophene dodecamer

       Synthetic Metals (1999), 101(1-3), 600-601

       Funaoka, Sohei; Imae, Ichiro; Noma, Naoki; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

16.    Synthesis and electrochromic properties of methacrylate copolymers containing pendant terthiophene and oligo(ethyleneoxide) moieties

       Synthetic Metals (1999), 102(1-3), 969-970

       Ohsedo, Yutaka; Imae, Ichiro; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

17.    Synthesis and polyaddition reaction of optically active methylphenylpropargylsilane

       Macromolecules (1999), 32(20), 6874-6876

       Kawakami, Yusuke; Nakao, Kimitaka; Shinke, Satoshi; Imae, Ichiro

 

18.    Optically active oligo- and polyamides from optically active spiro[3.3]heptane-2,6-dicarboxylic acid

       Polymer Journal (1999), 31(11-2), 1041-1044

       Tang, Hongzhi; Miura, Hiroshi; Imae, Ichiro; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

19.    Electrochromic properties of new methacrylate copolymers containing pendant oligothiophene and oligo(ethyleneoxide) moieties in the presence of a polymer-gel electrolyte

       Electrochimica Acta (2000), 45(8-9), 1543-1547

       Ohsedo, Yutaka; Imae, Ichiro; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

20.    Silacyclobutanes as "carbanion pump" in anionic polymerization I. Anionic polymerization of styrene by potassium t-butoxide in the presence of silacyclobutanes

       Polymer Journal (2000), 32(6), 527-530

       Sheikh, Md. Rezaul Karim; Imae, Ichiro; Tharanikkarasu, Kannan; Le Strat, Valerie Marie-Jeane; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

21.    Analysis of terminal group and stereochemistry of silicon-containing compounds and polymers by NMR

       International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization (2000), 5(4-6), 437-455

       Kawakami, Yusuke; Imae, Ichiro

 

22.    Stereospecific formation of optically active trialkylsilyllithiums and their configurational stability

       Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (2000), 611(1-2), 20-25

       Omote, Masakatsu; Tokita, Tetsushi; Shimizu, Yasutaka; Imae, Ichiro; Shirakawa, Eiji; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

23.    Silacyclobutane as "carbanion pump" in anionic polymerization. 2. Effective trapping of the initially formed carbanion by diphenylethylene

       Macromolecules (2001), 34(13), 4384-4389

       Sheikh, Md. Rezaul Karim; Tharanikkarasu, Kannan; Imae, Ichiro; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

24.    Synthesis, characterization and thermal properties of phenylene-disiloxane polymers obtained from catalytic cross-dehydrocoupling polymerization of bis(dimethylsilyl)benzene isomers and water

       Polymer International (2001), 50(12), 1346-1351

       Kawakita, Takahiko; Oh, Hyun-Shik; Moon, Jeong-Yeol; Liu, Yang; Imae, Ichiro; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

25.    Regioselective ring opening of 1-methyl-1-(1-naphthyl)-2,3-benzosilacyclobut-2-ene by carbanion and silyl anion

       Chemistry Letters (2001), (10), 986-987

       Uenishi, Kazuya; Imae, Ichiro; Shirakawa, Eiji; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

26.    Formation of poly(silsesquioxane) gel containing optically active 1,3-dimethyl-1,3-diphenyldisiloxane as a connecting unit

       Polymer Journal (2002), 34(1), 43-47

       Seino, Makoto; Oishi, Motoi; Imae, Ichiro; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

27.    Synthesis of stereoregular and optically active poly[{methyl(1-naphthyl)silylene}(o-phenylene)methylene] by platinum-catalyzed ring-opening polymerization

       Macromolecules (2002), 35(7), 2455-2460

       Uenishi, Kazuya; Imae, Ichiro; Shirakawa, Eiji; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

28.    Synthesis and characterization of optically active hyperbranched poly(carbosiloxane)s

       Macromolecules (2002), 35(13), 4938-4945

       Oishi, Motoi; Minakawa, Maki; Imae, Ichiro; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

29.    Synthesis and thermal properties of disiloxane-arylene polymers by dehydrocoupling polymerization of bis(dimethylsilyl)arylene with water

       Silicon Chemistry (2002), 1(2), 139-143

       Moon, Jeon-Yeol; Miura, Takatsugu; Imae, Ichiro; Park, Dae-Won; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

30.      Synthesis and characterization of siloxane-containing polymers obtained by dehydrocoupling polymerization

ACS Symposium Series (2003), 838, 61-71

       Kawakami, Yusuke; Imae, Ichiro

 

31.    Catalytic cross-dehydrocoupling polymerization of phenylsilane with water. A new approach to poly(phenylsilsesquioxane)

       Polymer Journal (2003), 35(2), 197-202

       Seino, Makoto; Imae, Ichiro; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

32.    Evaluation of absolute configuration of naphthylphenyl-substituted by CD exciton chirality method

       Chirality (2003), 15(3), 231-237

       Oh, Hyun-Shik; Imae, Ichiro; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

33.    Synthesis and characterization of poly(silphenylenesiloxane)s containing functional side groups, a study to high-temperature elastomer

       Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (2003), 4(1), 27-34

       Liu, Yang; Imae, Ichiro; Makishima, Akio; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

34.    Separation of optically active ethynylsilane derivatives and their polymerization by transition-metal catalysts

       Macromolecules (2003), 36(20), 7461-7468

       Kawakami, Yusuke; Omote, Masakatsu; Imae, Ichiro; Shirakawa, Eiji

 

35.    Synthesis and electrochromic properties of a new family of methacrylate polymers containing pendant oligothiophenes

       Journal of Polymer Science (2003), 41(21), 2471-2484

       Ohsedo, Yutaka; Imae, Ichiro; Shirota, Yasuhiko

 

36.    Synthesis, Stereochemistry and Chiroptical Properties of Naphthylphenyl-Substituted Optically Active Oligosilanes with a,w-Chiral Silicon Centers

       Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (2003) 685(1-2), 35-43

       Oh, Hyun-Shik; Imae, Ichiro; Kawakami, Yusuke; Raj, S. Shanmuga Sundara; Yamane, Takashi

 

37.    Controlled Synthesis of Silicon-containing Polymers by Metal Catalysts

Polymer Internationals (2003) 52(19), 1619-1624

       Kawakami, Yusuke; Park, SungYoung; Uenishi, Kazuya; Oishi, Motoi; Imae, Ichiro

 

38.    Electrochemical properties and estimation of HOMO and LUMO levels of permethylated oligosilanes with well-defined structures

       Designed Monomers and Polymers (2004) 7(1/2), 127-134

       Imae, Ichiro; Minami, Takehiro; Kawakami, Yusuke

 

39.      Control of molecular weight, stereochemistry and higher order structure of siloxane-containing polymers and their functional design

       Macromolecular Research (2004) 12(2), 156-171

       Kawakami, Yusuke; Li, Yuning; Liu, yang; Seino, Makoto; Pakjamsai, Chitsakon; Oishi, Motoi; Cho, Yeong Hee; Imae, Ichiro




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