A New Spin on Life’s Origin?

Ishii lab. shows how one of a mirror-image pair can be synthesized using rotating lab equipment?which may accelerate pharmaceutical manufacturing and answer a huge question about the origin of life.

M. Kuroha, S. Nambu, S. Hattori, Y. Kitagawa, K. Niimura, Y. Mizuno, F. Hamba and K. Ishii
“Chiral Supramolecular Nano-Architectures from Macroscopic Mechanical Rotations: Effects on Chiral Aggregation Behavior of Phthalocyanines”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 18454-18459 (2019).
(Altmetrics 75)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201911366

Vitamin C in the body can be tracked by fluorescence

T. Yokoi, T. Otani and K. Ishii
In vivo fluorescence bioimaging of ascorbic acid in mice: Development of an efficient probe consisting of phthalocyanine, TEMPO, and albumin” Scientific Reports, 8, 1560 (2018).
(Top 10 in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: highly accessed biochemistry and molecular biology articles in the first quarter of 2018, Altmetrics 101)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-19762-8

From:https://www.nature.com/collections/hwgkbwnxhw

「放射性セシウム除染布の量産工程の確立」記者会見(2012.11.27)

http://www.k-ishiilab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kishakaiken2.pdf

「放射性セシウム除染布開発」記者会見(2012.5.28)

http://www.k-ishiilab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kishakaiken1.pdf

Y. Kitagawa, H. Segawa, and K. Ishii
“Magneto-Chiral Dichroism of Organic Compounds”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 9133-9136 (2011).
(Very Important Paper, Cover Picture)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.201101809