Issue 12, 2026
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Chemical Communications

Gate-opening cooperative methanol binding to multi-bladed benzenes bearing 1,2-diboryl functionality

Yunyi Song,ab   Hiromichi Yokoyama, ORCID logo ab   Yoshiaki Shoji, ORCID logo *abc   Hayato Sakai,d   Taku Hasobe ORCID logo d  and  Takanori Fukushima ORCID logo *abc  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
E-mail: yshoji@res.titech.ac.jp, fukushima@res.titech.ac.jp

b Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan

c Research Center for Autonomous Systems Materialogy (ASMat), Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan

d Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan

Abstract

A newly synthesized multi-bladed benzene (2o) bearing two oxaboraanthracenyl and two N-carbazolylphenyl units undergoes highly cooperative binding with multiple methanol molecules (Hill coefficient > 3.5).

Graphical abstract: Gate-opening cooperative methanol binding to multi-bladed benzenes bearing 1,2-diboryl functionality

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC06166K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Oct 2025
Accepted
16 Jan 2026
First published
19 Jan 2026
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2026,62, 3889-3892

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Gate-opening cooperative methanol binding to multi-bladed benzenes bearing 1,2-diboryl functionality

Y. Song, H. Yokoyama, Y. Shoji, H. Sakai, T. Hasobe and T. Fukushima, Chem. Commun., 2026, 62, 3889 DOI: 10.1039/D5CC06166K

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