Advances in Organic Crystal Chemistry

Masami SAKAMOTO Masami Sakamoto, Professor of Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University, was born in 1957 in Ibaraki. He received B. of Science (1979), M. of Science (1982), and D. of Science (1987) degrees from The University of Tsukuba. In 1985, he joined Faculty of Engineering at Chiba University as a Research Associate (1985-1994), appointed to Associate Professor in 1994, and promoted to Professor of Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University in 2003. His major field is organic synthesis and solid-state chemistry. His current interests include 1) Dynamic preferential crystallization and 2) Asymmetric synthesis using crystal chirality. He received the Molecular Chirality Award from the Molecular Chirality Research Organization in 2014. Hidehiro UEKUSA Hidehiro Uekusa, Associate Professor of Department of Chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology, was born in 1964 in Tokyo. He received B. of Science (1987), M. of Science (1989), andD. of Science (1992) degrees from Keio University. In 1992, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology as a Research Associate (1992-1999), and appointed to Associate Professor in 1999. His major field is chemical crystallography. His current interests include 1) Crystal structure and properties design of pharmaceutical crystals, 2) Analysis of crystalline state reactions, and 3) Crystal structure analysis from powder diffraction data. He received the Research Award from the Crystallographic Society of Japan in 2012. 

Part I Nucleation and Crystal Growth.- X-ray Birefringence Imaging: A New Technique to Characterize Bond Orientational Distributions in Organic Materials.- Direct Visualization of Crystal Formation and Growth Process Probed by the Organic Fluorescent Molecules.- Anti-solvent Crystallization Method for Production of Desired Crystalline Particles.- Crystal Nucleation of Proteins Induced by Surface Plasmon Resonance.- Control of Crystal Size Distribution and Polymorphs in the Crystallization of Organic Compounds.- Managing Thermal History to Stabilize/Destabilize Pharmaceutical Glasses.- Part II  Structure and Design of Crystals.- Supramolecular, Hierarchical and Energetical Interpretation of Organic Crystals: Generation of Supramolecular Chirality in Assemblies of Achiral Molecules.- Relationship Between Atomic Contact and Intermolecular Interactions: Significant Importance of Dispersion Interactions Between Molecules without Short Atom-atom Contact in Crystals.- PharmaceuticalMulticomponent Crystals: Structure, Design, and Properties.- The Design of Porous Organic Salts with Hierarchical Process.- Layered Hydrogen-bonded Organic Frameworks as Highly Crystalline Porous Materials.- Kinetic Assembly of Porous Coordination Networks Leads to Trapping Unstable Elemental Allotropes.- Creation of Organic-Metal Hybridized Nanocrystals toward Nonlinear Optics Applications.- Part III  Function.- Luminescent Crystal – Control of Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) Luminescence through Polymorphism.- Solid-State Fluorescence Switching Using Photochromic Diarylethenes.- Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Solid-State Chiral Luminophores.- Azulene-Based Materials for Organic Field-Effect Transistors.- Electronic Functions of Nanostructured Liquid Crystals with Electronic and Ionic Conductivity.- Part IV  Chirality.- Kryptoracemates.- Twenty-Five Years’ History, Mechanism and Generality of Preferential Enrichment as a Complexity Phenomenon.-Asymmetric Synthesis Involving Dynamic Enantioselective Crystallization.- Molecular Recognition by Inclusion Crystals of Chiral Host Molecules Having Trityl and Related Bulky Groups.- Asymmetric Catalysis and Chromatographic Enantiomer Separation by Homochiral Metal-Organic Framework: Recent Advances.- Part V Solid-State Reaction.- Solid-State Polymerization of Conjugated Acetylene Compounds to Form π-Conjugated Polymers.- Click Chemistry to Metal Organic Frameworks as a Synthetic Tool for MOF and Applications for Functional Materials.