Chemistry LettersNo.3 CMLTAGMarch, 2002 ISSN 0366-7022

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266 Enantiopure trans- and cis-3-Aminoindan-1-ols: Preparation and Application as NovelBasic Resolving Agents

Kazushi Kinbara, Yoshiyuki Katsumata, andKazuhiko Saigo

268 Fluoride Ion Abstraction of PhosphoniumCations from Their Counter Anion: A NovelSynthetic Method of Fluorophosphoranes

Shohei Sase, Naokazu Kano, and TakayukiKawashima

270 1,4-Dihydroxylation of 1,3-ConjugatedDienes Promoted by the Pt(III) DinuclearComplex

Masahiko Ochiai and Kazuko Matsumoto

272 Rhodium Catalyzed Anti-Markovnikov Ad-dition of Triphenylphosphine to 1,3-DienesA Novel Method to Separate Pure (Z)-1,3-Alkadienes from Isomeric Mixtures

Mieko Arisawa, Ryohei Momozuka, andMasahiko Yamaguchi

C-32 Chemistry Letters No.3 2002

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274 Solvent-Free One-Pot Reduction of IminesGenerated in situ fromAldehydes andAnilineby Tributyltin Hydride on Silica Gel

Ryoichi Hiroi, Norikazu Miyoshi, and MakotoWada

276 Catalytic Asymmetric Syntheses of ICI-199441 and CP-99994 Using Nitro-MannichReaction

Natsuko Tsuritani, Ken-ichi Yamada, NaokiYoshikawa, and Masakatsu Shibasaki

278 Enhanced Leaving Ability ofMethoxy Groupand Retarded Deprotonation on the CarbonAtom Linked to the 1-Position of 8-Phosphi-no- or 8-Amino-naphthalene

Akio Toshimitsu, Tomoyuki Saeki, and KoheiTamao

280 Synthesis of BenzocycloocteneDerivatives viaThermal Ring Expansion of Dienylbenzocy-clobutenes

Toshiyuki Hamura, Shinsuke Tsuji, TakashiMatsumoto, and Keisuke Suzuki

282 The 5-endo-trig Cyclization of gem-Difluoro-olefinswith sp3 CarbonNucleophiles: Synthe-sis of 1-Fluorocyclopentenes

Junji Ichikawa, Kotaro Sakoda, and YukinoriWada

Chemistry Letters No.3 2002 C-33

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284 Catalytic Oxidation of Alcohols with Ru(Py-box)(Pydic) Complex

Seiji Iwasa, Kazushi Morita, Kentaro Tajima,Ahmad Fakhruddin, and Hisao Nishiyama

286 ANewCondensationReaction for the Synthe-sis of Carboxylic Esters from Nearly Equi-molar Amounts of Carboxylic Acids andAlcohols Using 2-Methyl-6-nitrobenzoic An-hydride

Isamu Shiina, Ryoutarou Ibuka, and MariKubota

288 Novel Valence Expansion Reactions UsingKC8: A New Route to Hexavalent Organo-tellurium Compounds from Divalent Tell-urium

Masataka Miyasato, Mao Minoura, YohsukeYamamoto, and Kin-ya Akiba

290 Formation of Cyclopropanes by the Reduc-tive Coupling of 1,3-Dihalides Promoted byTitanocene(II) Species

Takeshi Takeda, Keiko Shimane, TooruFujiwara, and Akira Tsubouchi

292 Comparison of Cyclic and Acyclic Phosphitesby Selective Phosphorylation. Synthesis ofPhosphatidylinositol 4-Phosphate

Yutaka Watanabe, Hirofumi Munetsugu, andMinoru Hayashi

C-34 Chemistry Letters No.3 2002

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294 Ruthenium-Mediated Domino SequenceForming Six-Membered Ring Diene fromEne-Yne and Alkene

Masahiro Murakami, Minoru Ubukata, andYoshihiko Ito

296 Application of High Pressure Induced byWater-freezing to the Michael Reaction ofAlcohols with �,�-Enones

Yujiro Hayashi and Koichi Nishimura

298 Catalytic, Enantioselective Propargyl- andAllenylation Reactions of �-Imino Ester

Hirotaka Kagoshima, Tetsumaru Uzawa, andTakahiko Akiyama

300 Diastereoselective Additions of EthynylGrignard Reagent to Erythrulose Derivatives

ShojiKobayashi, ParthasarathiDas,GuangXingWang, Takashi Mita, Martin J. Lear, andMasahiro Hirama

302 Catalytic Asymmetric 1,3-Dipolar Cycload-dition of a Nitrone Bearing a Bulky AmideMoiety to �-Substituted Allylic Alcohols

Xia Ding, Yutaka Ukaji, Shuhei Fujinami, andKatsuhiko Inomata

Chemistry Letters No.3 2002 C-35

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304 First Aggregation of L-Cysteinato Cobalt(III)Octahedrons Assisted by Trigonal-PlanarSilver(I) and Trigonal-Prismatic Sodium(I)Ions

Takumi Konno, Tatsuya Kawamoto, RieKuwabara, Takashi Yoshimura, and MasakazuHirotsu

306 Chemoselective Substitution Reaction of 2-Bromo-3-methoxy-1,4-naphthoquinone

Bryanne L. Stills, Carolyn B. Lauzon, andTetsuo Otsuki

308 Electrochemical Oscillation in the Oxidationof Tritolylamines Using YBa2Cu3O7�� Cera-mics Electrode in Oxygen Atmosphere

Masakazu Tatsumi, Yutaka Isida, TakayukiAriyama, and Masafumi Yano

310 Synthesis of Ultrathin Films of Prussian Blueby Successive Ion Adsorption Technique

Isamu Moriguchi, Haruna Kamogawa, KaoriHagiwara, and Yasutake Teraoka

312 Molecular Assembly of Bachteriochlorophylla Using Light-harvesting Model 1�-HelixPolypeptides and 2�-Helix Polypeptide withDisulfide-linkage

Mamoru Nango, Ayumi Kashiwada, HiroyukiWatanabe, Shuhei Yamada, Taku Yamada,Makiko Ogawa, Toshiki Tanaka, and Kouji Iida

C-36 Chemistry Letters No.3 2002

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314 Conversions of Thiirene 1-Oxides to �-Iminothioketones or Oxazoles through Prob-able Intermediates Sulfilimines

Yutaka Ono, Yoshiaki Sugihara, Akihiko Ishii,and Juzo Nakayama

316 Pressure-induced Metamagnetic Behavior ina Quasi-One-Dimensional Molecule-basedFerrimagnet

Kentaro Suzuki, Yuko Hosokoshi, and KatsuyaInoue

318 Sc(OTf)3 Catalyzed Electrophilic Aminationof Arenes: An Expeditious Synthesis of ArylHydrazides

J. S. Yadav, B. V. S. Reddy, G. Veerendhar, R.Srinivasa Rao, and K. Nagaiah

320 Liquid-Crystalline Assemblies ContainingIonic Liquids: An Approach to AnisotropicIonic Materials

Masafumi Yoshio, Tomohiro Mukai, KiyoshiKanie, Masahiro Yoshizawa, Hiroyuki Ohno,and Takashi Kato

322 In Situ Insertion of Poly(aniline) into Molyb-denum Oxide Layers

Ke Shao, Ying Ma, Zhao-hui Chen, Xue-hai Ji,Wen-sheng Yang, and Jian-nian Yao

Chemistry Letters No.3 2002 C-37

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324 Photorefractive Properties of the IsotropicPhase of Cyanobiphenyl Side-chain LiquidCrystalline Polymers

Takeo Sasaki, Teruyuki Shimada, and KojiTachibana

326 Circular Dichroism Measurement of a Pro-tein in Dried Thin Films

Takunori Harada and Reiko Kuroda

328 High Sensitive DNA Detection Amplified byEnlarging Au-Nanoparticles in situ

Zhanfang Ma, Jinru Li, Long Jiang, MengsuYang, and Sen-fang Sui

330 A Novel Shape-Selective Catalyst, Pt-Pro-motedRb2:1H0:9PW12O40, forHydrogenationof Aromatic Compounds

Miki Yoshimune, Yusuke Yoshinaga, andToshio Okuhara

332 An Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Micro-balance Study of the Electrochemical Oscilla-tion in H2O2-Reduction Reaction

Xiaqin Wu, Fang Wang, Long Jin, Hexing Li,and Zongrang Zhang

C-38 Chemistry Letters No.3 2002

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334 Direct Electrochemistry of Cytochrome cEmbedded in Membrane Films of Anionic-Type Lipids Prepared via Ion-Exchange

Masato Tominaga, Junko Yanagimoto, andNaotoshi Nakashima

336 Rotaxane-like Characteristics of [2]Pseudo-rotaxane Complexes of �-Cyclodextrin andDodecamethylene Threading Chain Deriva-tives with Cationic End Groups

Byeong-Su Kim and Jong-In Hong

338 Effects of Microwave Absorbents in NORemoval by Microwave Discharge of NO/ArMixture at Atmospheric Pressure

Masaharu Tsuji, Kosuke Nakano, Jun Kumagae,Takeshi Tsuji, Seong-HoYoon,YozoKorai, andIsao Mochida

340 Excited State Structure of N-(4-cyanophen-yl)carbazole by Time-Resolved Infrared Ab-sorption Spectroscopy

Anunay Samanta, Satyen Saha, HironoriIshikawa, and Hiro-o Hamaguchi

342 Regenerable Surface Plasmon Resonance(SPR)-based Immunosensor for Highly Sen-sitive Measurement of Sub-ppb Levels ofBenzo(a)pyrene

Norio Miura, Makoto Sasaki, Go Sakai, and K.Vengatajalabathy Gobi

Chemistry Letters No.3 2002 C-39

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344 Influences of A-site Partial Substitution forBaCo0:7Fe0:3O3 Oxide on Perovskite Struc-ture and Oxygen Permeability

Kazuya Kinoshita, Hajime Kusaba, Go Sakai,Kengo Shimanoe, Norio Miura and NoboruYamazoe

346 Chiral Crystallization of a Linear Two-coordinated Palladium(0) Complex BearingPropeller-shaped Bulky Phosphine Ligands

Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Takeshi Kasai, andKazuyuki Tatsumi

348 Dinuclear Copper Complexes of N-(2-Hy-droxybenzylidene or 5-Bromo-2-hydroxy-benzylidene)-4,6-O-ethylidene-�-D-glucopy-ranosylamine: Coordination Variation andStructural Diversity

Ajay K. Sah, Chebrolu P. Rao, Pauli K.Saarenketo, Kari Rissanen, G. A. van Albada,and Jan Reedijk

350 Rare Earth Ion Center in Distorted SquareAnti-Prism Coordination Environment: ANovel Three-Dimensional CoordinationPoly-mer with Channels

Xu Haitao, Zheng Nengwu, Jin Xianglin, YangRuyi, and Li Zhengquan

352 Unusual Absorption Spectra Found for SomePhthalocyaninatozinc(II) Complexes BearingDendritic Substituents at � Positions

Kuninobu Kasuga, Noriyuki Matsuura, KojiInoue, Makoto Handa, Tamotsu Sugimori,Kimio Isa, and Makoto Nakata

C-40 Chemistry Letters No.3 2002

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354 Cu(II) Coordination Structure in NAD Gly-cohydrolase fromAgkistrodon acutus VenomStudied by EPR Spectroscopy

Shuang Ding Wu, Xiaolong Xu, Yongshu Xie,Lixin Chen, Zhenlong Chen, and Qingliang Liu

356 Highly Ordered Coronene Adlayer onAu(111) Surface Formed in Benzene Solu-tion: In situ Scanning Tunneling MicroscopyStudy

Soichiro Yoshimoto, Ryuji Narita, and KingoItaya

358 Synthesis and Ethylene Polymerization Be-havior of a New Titanium Complex HavingTwo Imine–Phenoxy Chelate Ligands

Yasuhiko Suzuki, Norio Kashiwa, and TerunoriFujita

360 Electrochemistry in Middle Phase Micro-emulsion Composed of Saline and Toluenewith Sodium Dodecylsulfate and n-Butanol

Shinya Yoshitake, Akihiro Ohira, MasatoTominaga, Taisei Nishimi, Masayo Sakata,Chuichi Hirayama, and Masashi Kunitake

362 Synthesis, Crystal Structure and SuperoxideDismutase (SOD) Activity of Novel Seven-Coordinated Manganese(II) Complex withMultidentate Di-Schiff Base Ligands

Xing-Mei Ouyang, Bao-Li Fei, Taka-akiOkamura, Wei-Yin Sun, Wen-Xia Tang, andNorikazu Ueyama

Chemistry Letters No.3 2002 C-41

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364 Reactions of Silenes Produced Thermallyfrom Pivaloyl- and Adamantoyltris(tri-methylsilyl)silane with Bis(trimethylsilyl)bu-tadiyne

Akinobu Naka and Mitsuo Ishikawa

366 Application of XANES for the Determinationof Oxidation States of Co and Pb in NaturalFerromanganese Nodules

Yoshio Takahashi, Akira Usui, Kazu Okumura,Tomoya Uruga, Masaharu Nomura, MioMurakami, and Hiroshi Shimizu

368 A Novel, One-Pot Synthesis of �-C-Cyanohy-drazines in the Presence of Lithium Perchlo-rate/Diethylether Solution (5.0M)

Akbar Heydari, Robabe Baharfar, MohsenRezaie, and Saied M. Aslanzadeh

370 Observation of a High Resolution ProtonNMR with a 920MHz SuperconductingMagnet

Kenjiro Hashi, Tadashi Shimizu, Atsushi Goto,Tsukasa Kiyoshi, Shinji Matsumoto, HitoshiWada, Teruaki Fujito, Ken-ichi Hasegawa,Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Takashi Miki, SatoshiIto, and Mamoru Hamada

372 Fabrication of the Sponge-like Layered Sil-ver(I)-alkylamine Complexes and Their insitu Reduction

N. Ren, Y. Tang, Y. J. Wang, A. G. Dong, andW. L. Yang

C-42 Chemistry Letters No.3 2002

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374 Preparation of Boron-containing TON-TypeZeolite by Self-transformation of PorousGlass in a Vapor Phase

Wei-Yang Dong, Xi-Peng Qiu, Yu Ren, andYing-Cai Long

376 WaterAcceleratedAllylation ofAldehydes byUsing Water Tolerant Grignard-Type Ally-lating Agents from Allylmagnesium Chlorideand Various Metallic Salts

Tomohiro Fukuma, Sandra Lock, NorikazuMiyoshi, and Makoto Wada

378 Solvent Effect on Morphology of Self-as-sembled Fibrous Materials Derived From anAzopyridine Carboxylic Acid

Ken’ichi Aoki, Masaru Nakagawa, TakahiroSeki, and Kunihiro Ichimura

380 Direct Synthesis of Coumarins by Pd(II)-Catalyzed Reaction of Alkoxyphenols andAlkynoates

Juzo Oyamada, Chengguo Jia, Yuzo Fujiwara,and Tsugio Kitamura

382 Amplification of Detection Signals forMethylViologen by Using Supramolecular Forma-tion of Antibody with Viologen Dimer inSurface Plasmon Resonance Sensor

Hiroyasu Yamaguchi and Akira Harada

Chemistry Letters No.3 2002 C-43

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384 Preparation and Molecular Arrangement ofNovel Pyrenophanes

Akihiko Tsuge, Yuji Tanba, Tetsuji Moriguchi,and Kazunori Sakata

386 Syntheses of Vinyl Polymers ContainingPhenylanthracene Pendants andTheir Appli-cation ro Organic EL Device

Satoshi Shirai and Junji Kido

388 meso-Tetraphenylporphyrin Having Hexa-maltosyl and Decyl Chain as an AmphiphilicPhotosensitizer toward Photodynamic Ther-apy

Akihisa Hamazawa, Isamu Kinoshita, BrianBreedlove, Kiyoshi Isobe, Minako Shibata,Yasuko Baba, Toyoji Kakuchi, Shiho Hirohara,Makoto Obata, Yuji Mikata, and ShigenobuYano

390 Novel Activity of SnO2 for Methanol Conver-sion: Formation ofMethane, CarbonDioxide,and Hydrogen

Tohru Mori, Shunichi Hoshino, ArthitNeramittagapong, Jun Kubo, and YutakaMorikawa

392 Catalytic and Stereoselective Glycosylationwith a Novel and Efficient Disarmed GlycosylDonor: Glycosyl p-Trifluoromethylbenzyl-thio-p-trifluoromethylphenyl Formimidate

Teruaki Mukaiyama, Hiroyuki Chiba, andSetsuo Funasaka

C-44 Chemistry Letters No.3 2002

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394 Synthesis and Single Aggregate Spectroscopyof a Novel Fluorescent Dendrimer withHighly Efficient Energy Harvesting

Minoru Kobayashi, Shinjiro Machida, SatoshiTakahashi, Kazuyuki Horie, HiroyukiYoshikawa, and Hiroshi Masuhara

396 A New Chelation-Assistance Mode for aRuthenium-Catalyzed Silylation at the C-HBond in Aromatic Ring with Hydrosilanes

Fumitoshi Kakiuchi, Kimitaka Igi, MitsutakaMatsumoto, Tomoo Hayamizu, Naoto Chatani,and Shinji Murai

398 Non-aqueous Synthesis and Structure of aNovel Monodimensional Zirconium Phos-phate: [NH4]3[Zr(OH)2(PO4)(HPO4)]

Dan Wang, Ranbo Yu, Takahiro Takei,Nobuhiro Kumada, Nobukazu Kinomura,Ayumu Onda, Koji Kajiyoshi, and KazumichiYanagisawa

400 A Novel Host-Guest Supramolecular Archi-tecture of Dehydrocholic Acid in the Enan-tioselective Inclusion of R-(þ)-Methyl p-TolylSulfoxide

Valerio Bertolasi, Olga Bortolini, GiancarloFantin, Marco Fogagnolo, and AlessandroMedici

402 Structural Control in Enzymatic OxidativePolymerization of Phenols with Varying theSolvent and Substituent Nature

Naruyoshi Mita, Shin-ichiro Tawaki, HiroshiUyama, and Shiro Kobayashi

Chemistry Letters No.3 2002 C-45

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404 Morphological Change of Giant VesiclesTriggered by Dehydrocondensation Reaction

Katsuto Takakura, Taro Toyota, Koji Yamada,Masako Ishimaru, Kenji Yasuda, and TadashiSugawara

406 Coordinatively Unsaturated Ru(II) SpeciesRu(xantsil)(CO): A New Active Catalyst forOligomerization/Deoligomerization ofHSiMe2SiMe3 [xantsil ¼ ð9,9-

Dimethylxanthene-4,5-diylÞbisðdimethylsilylÞ]. Isolation of a Stabi-lized Formof the Silyl(silylene) Intermediates

Jim Josephus G. Minglana, Masaaki Okazaki,Hiromi Tobita, and Hiroshi Ogino

408 An Amorphous Nanosized Tin-Zinc Compo-site Oxide as aHighCapacity AnodeMaterialfor Lithium Ion Batteries

Zhengyong Yuan, Feng Huang, Jutang Sun, andYunhong Zhou

410 Synthesis of a PET-Clay Hybrid Material

Zhang Guozhen, Tetsuya Shichi, Tong Zhiwei,and Katsuhiko Takagi

412 HighTemperature PTCThermistorUsingBaCobaltite

Kazuya Kinoshita, Hajime Kusaba, Go Sakai,Kengo Shimanoe, Norio Miura, and NoboruYamazoe

414 Oxidative Double Bond Cleavage of �-Sub-stituted Styrenes with Molecular Oxygen

Yujiro Hayashi, Mitsuhiro Takeda, YujiMiyamoto, and Mitsuru Shoji

416 Modulation of the Copper-Dioxygen Reactiv-ity by Stereochemical Effect of TetradentateTripodal Ligands

Hideki Hayashi, Kounosuke Uozumi, ShuheiFujinami, Shigenori Nagatomo, Kazushi Shiren,Hideki Furutachi, Masatatsu Suzuki, AkiraUehara, and Teizo Kitagawa

418 A Highly Selective and Coking-ResistantCatalyst for Methane Dehydrocondensation

Yuying Shu, Ryuichiro Ohnishi, and MasaruIchikawa

420 Photoinduced Changes of Surface and Ad-sorbedWater in TiO2 Photocatalytic Systemsas Studied by Solid State 1H-NMR Spectro-scopy

Atsuko Y. Nosaka, Toshimichi Fujiwara,Hiromasa Yagi, Hideo Akutsu and YoshioNosaka

C-46 Chemistry Letters No.3 2002

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