[in English]

(23) "Kinetics and Solvent-Dependent Thermodynamics of Water Capture
by a Fullerene-Based Hydrophobic Nanocavity"
Michael Frunzi, Anne M. Baldwin, Nobuyuki Shibata, Sho-ichi Iwamatsu,
Ronald G. Lawler, and Nicholas J. Turro
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2011, 115, 735--740.

(22) "Magnetic Interaction of Solution-State Paramagnets with Encapsulated H2O and H2"
Michael Frunzi, Xuegong Lei, Yasujiro Murata, Koichi Komatsu, Sho-ichi Iwamatsu,
Shizuaki Murata, Ronald G. Lawler and Nicholas J. Turro
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2010, 1, 1420--1422.

(21) "Methane in an Open-Cage [60]Fullerene"
Keith E. Whitener, Jr., R. James Cross, Martin Saunders, Sho-ichi Iwamatsu,
Shizuaki Murata, Naomi Mizorogi and Shigeru Nagase
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 6338--6339


(20) "Putting Ammonia into a Chemically Opened Fullerene"
Keith E. Whitener, Michael Frunzi, Sho-ichi Iwamatsu, Shizuaki Murata,
R. James Cross, and Martin Saunders
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2008, 130, 13996--13999.

(19) "Carbon Monoxide Inside an Open-Cage Fullerene"
Sho-ichi Iwamatsu, Christopher M. Stanisky, R. James Cross, Martin Saunders,
Naomi Mizorogi, Shigeru Nagase, and Shizuaki Murata
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2006, 45, 5337--5340.

(18) "Open-Cage Fullerenes: Synthesis, Structure, and Molecular Encapsulation"
Sho-ichi Iwamatsu and Shizuaki Murata
Synlett, 2005, 2117--2129 (account)

(17) "Chemical Modification of Carbon Nanotubes with Organic Hydrazines"
Tomokazu Yokoi, Sho-ichi Iwamatsu, Shin-ichi Komai, Tadashi Hattori, and Shizuaki Murata
Carbon, 2005, 43, 2869--2874.

(16) "Open-Cage Fullerene Derivatives Suitable for the Encapsulation of a Hydrogen Molecule"
Sho-ichi Iwamatsu, Shizuaki Murata, Yukihiro Andoh, Masayuki Minoura,
Kaoru Kobayashi, Naomi Mizorogi, and Shigeru Nagase
Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2005, 70, 4820--4825.

(15) "Regioselective Carbon-Carbon Bond Cleavage of the Open-Cage Diketone
Derivative of [60]Fullerene by the Reaction with Aromatic Hydrazone"
Sho-ichi Iwamatsu, Toshiki Kuwayama, Kaoru Kobayashi, Shigeru Nagase, and Shizuaki Murata
Synthesis 2004, 2962--2964.

(14) "Shock-induced pyrolysis of naphthalene and related polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(anthracene, pyrene, and fluoranthene) at pressures of 12-33.7 GPa"
Koichi Mimura, Tetsuji Madono, Seiji Toyama, Kenichiro Sugitani, Ryuichi Sugisaki,
Sho-ichi Iwamatsu and Shizuaki Murata
Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 2004, 72, 273--278.

(13) "Hydrophilic [60]fullerene carboxylic acid derivatives retaining the original 60p-electronic system"
Periya K. Vijayalakshmi, Inami Koike, Yukihiro Kitamura, Sho-ichi Iwamatsu, and Shizuaki Murata
Tetrahedron Letters 2004, 45, 8311--8313.

(12) "H2O@open-cage fullerene C60: control of the encapsulation property
and the first mass spectroscopic identification"
Sho-ichi Iwamatsu and Shizuaki Murata
Tetrahedron Letters 2004, 45, 6391--6394.

(11) "A Bowl-Shaped Fullerene Encapsulates a Water into the Cage"
S.-i. Iwamatsu, T. Uozaki, K. Kobayashi, S. Re, S. Nagase and S. Murata
Journal of the American Chemical Society
, 2004, 126, 2668--2669.

(10) "A Novel Ring Expansion of the Holey Ketolactam Derivative of C60"
S.-i. Iwamatsu, F. Ono, and S. Murata
Chemistry Letters, 2003, 32, 614--615.

(9) "A Novel Migrative Addition Reactions of Hydrazines to the Diketone Derivative of C60"
S.-i. Iwamatsu, F. Ono, and S. Murata
Chemical Communications, 2003, 1268--1269.

(8) "Rearrangement of the Cyclohexadiene Derivatives of C60 to Bis(fulleroid) and
Bis(methano)fullerene: Structure, Stability and Mechanism"
C. H. Suresh, P. S. Vijayalakshmi, S.-i. Iwamatsu, S. Murata, and N. Koga
Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2003, 68, 3522--3531.

(7) "A Novel Photorearrangement of a Cyclohexadiene Derivative of C60"
S.-i. Iwamatsu, P. S. Vijayalakshmi, M. Hamajima, C. H. Suresh, N. Koga,
T. Suzuki, and S. Murata Organic Letters, 2002, 4, 1217--1220.

(6) "Photochemical and Thermal Rearrangement of Cyclohexadiene Derivatives of C60 :
Formation and Characterization of Novel Compounds Relating to Bis(fulleroid)"
S.-i. Iwamatsu, K. P. Vijayalakshmi, Y. Kitamura, M. Hamajima, I. Koike, and S. Murata
Physics of the Solid State, 2002, 44, 1203--1204.

(5) "Photooxygenative partial ring cleavage of bis(fulleroid):
synthesis of a novel fullerene derivative with a 12-membered ring"
H. Inoue, H. Yamaguchi, S.-i. Iwamatsu, T. Uozaki, T. Suzuki, T. Akasaka, S. Nagase, and S. Murata
Tetrahedron Letters, 2001, 42, 895--897.

(4) "Copper-catalyzed cyclization of N-allylhalodifluoro- acetamides:
An efficient synthesis of alpha,alpha-difluorinated gamma-lactams"
H. Nagashima, Y. Isono, and S.-i. Iwamatsu
Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2001, 66, 315--319.

(3) "Efficient photooxygenation of olefins by a C-60 derivative bearing an organofluorine tail"
H. Nagashima, K. Hosoda, T. Abe, S.-i. Iwamatsu, and T. Sonoda
Chemistry Letters, 1999, 469--470.

(2) "Synthetic studies of cis-3a-aryloctahydroindole derivatives by copper-catalyzed
cyclization of N-allyltrichloroacetamides: Facile construction of benzylic quaternary
carbons by carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions"
S.-i. Iwamatsu, K. Matsubara, and H. Nagashima
Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1999, 64, 9625--9631.

(1) "Copper-catalyzed facile carbon-carbon bond forming reactions
at the alpha-position of alpha,alpha,gamma-trichlorinated gamma-lactams"
S.-i. Iwamatsu, H. Kondo, K. Matsubara, and H. Nagashima
Tetrahedron, 1999, 55, 1687 -- 1706.


[Related articles (fullerene)]
"A novel and practical synthesis of alkoxycarbonyl-substituted bis(fulleroid)."
H. Inoue, H. Yamaguchi, T. Suzuki, T. Akasaka, S. Murata, Synlett 2000, 1178--1180.
"Preparation and structure of a novel methano[60]fullerene containing a stable P-ylid."  
H. Yamaguchi, S. Murata, T. Akasaka, T. Suzuki, Tetrahedron Letters 1997, 38, 3529--3530.


[Book chapter]
(1) "Endohedral Fullerenes with Neutral Atoms and Molecule" Sho-ichi Iwamatsu
in Strained Hydrocarbons: Beyond the Van't Hoff and Le Bel Hypothesis
(H. Dodziuk Ed., WILEY-VCH, 2009, ISBN13: 978-3527317677)

[in Japanese]
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