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Atsuhiro Osuka

Atsuhiro Osuka

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Chemistry
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
112
Citations
50883
World Ranking
731
National Ranking
33

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Atsuhiro Osuka is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has an extensive research profile focusing on materials science and chemistry. Their work primarily spans the subfields of materials chemistry, organic chemistry, molecular biology, inorganic chemistry, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics in Osuka's research include:

  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
  • Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Osuka has published frequently in several scientific journals, notable among them:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - An Asian Journal
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Organic Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Osuka include:

  • Controlling the S1 Energy Profile by Tuning Excited-State Aromaticity, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Porphyrinoids, a unique platform for exploring excited-state aromaticity, 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Recent advances in subphthalocyanines and related subporphyrinoids, 2022, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Flapping Peryleneimide as a Fluorogenic Dye with High Photostability and Strong Visible-Light Absorption, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Balancing Charge Transfer and Frenkel Exciton Coupling Leads to Excimer Formation in Molecular Dimers: Implications for Singlet Fission, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Some frequent co-authors in Osuka's collaborative research include:

  • Jianxin Song
  • Ling Xu
  • Mingbo Zhou
  • Yutao Rao
  • Takayuki Tanaka

Best Publications

  • Fully conjugated porphyrin tapes with electronic absorption bands that reach into infrared.

    Akihiko Tsuda;Atsuhiro Osuka

  • Conjugated porphyrin arrays: synthesis, properties and applications for functional materials.

    Takayuki Tanaka;Atsuhiro Osuka

  • Expanded Porphyrins: Intriguing Structures, Electronic Properties, and Reactivities

    Shohei Saito;Atsuhiro Osuka

  • Discrete cyclic porphyrin arrays as artificial light-harvesting antenna.

    Naoki Aratani;Dongho Kim;Atsuhiro Osuka

  • meso, meso-Linked Porphyrin Arrays

    Atsuhiro Osuka;Hitoshi Shimidzu

  • Cyclic porphyrin arrays as artificial photosynthetic antenna: synthesis and excitation energy transfer

    Yasuyuki Nakamura;Naoki Aratani;Atsuhiro Osuka

  • Directly Linked Porphyrin Arrays with Tunable Excitonic Interactions

    Dongho Kim;Atsuhiro Osuka;Atsuhiro Osuka

  • Chemistry of meso-Aryl-Substituted Expanded Porphyrins: Aromaticity and Molecular Twist.

    Takayuki Tanaka;Atsuhiro Osuka

  • Confusion, inversion, and creation - A new spring from porphyrin chemistry

    Hiroyuki Furuta;Hiromitsu Maeda;Atsuhiro Osuka

  • Extremely Long, Discrete meso – meso‐Coupled Porphyrin Arrays

    Naoki Aratani;Atsuhiro Osuka;Yong Hee Kim;Dae Hong Jeong

  • Synthesis of naphthalene-bridged porphyrin dimers and their orientation-dependent exciton coupling

    Atsuhiro. Osuka;Kazuhiro. Maruyama

  • meso-Aryl-Substituted Expanded Porphyrins

    Ji-Young Shin;Hiroyuki Furuta;Kenji Yoza;Shinetsu Igarashi

  • Optically active single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    Xiaobin Peng;Xiaobin Peng;Naoki Komatsu;Sumanta Bhattacharya;Sumanta Bhattacharya;Takanori Shimawaki;Takanori Shimawaki

  • A Quadruply Azulene-Fused Porphyrin with Intense Near-IR Absorption and a Large Two-Photon Absorption Cross Section

    Kei Kurotobi;Kil Suk Kim;Su Bum Noh;Dongho Kim

  • Metalation of expanded porphyrins: a chemical trigger used to produce molecular twisting and Möbius aromaticity.

    Yasuo Tanaka;Shohei Saito;Shigeki Mori;Naoki Aratani

  • Möbius aromaticity and antiaromaticity in expanded porphyrins

    Zin Seok Yoon;Atsuhiro Osuka;Dongho Kim

  • Kinetically blocked stable heptazethrene and octazethrene : closed-shell or open-shell in the ground state?

    Yuan Li;WeeKuan Heng;Byungsun Lee;Naoki Aratani

  • Doubly N-Confused Porphyrin: A New Complexing Agent Capable of Stabilizing Higher Oxidation States

    Hiroyuki Furuta;Hiromitsu Maeda;Atsuhiro Osuka

  • Syntheses, structural characterizations, and optical and electrochemical properties of directly fused diporphyrins.

    Akihiko Tsuda;Hiroyuki Furuta;Atsuhiro Osuka

  • Aromaticity and photophysical properties of various topology-controlled expanded porphyrins

    Jae Yoon Shin;Kil Suk Kim;Min Chul Yoon;Jong Min Lim

  • Synthesis and optical properties of conformationally constrained trimeric and pentameric porphyrin arrays

    Toshi Nagata;Atsuhiro Osuka;Kazuhiro Maruyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Dongho Kim
Dongho Kim Yonsei University
Naoki Aratani
Naoki Aratani Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Kazuhiro Maruyama
Kazuhiro Maruyama Kyoto University
Hideki Yorimitsu
Hideki Yorimitsu Kyoto University
Hiroshi Shinokubo
Hiroshi Shinokubo Nagoya University
Hiroyuki Furuta
Hiroyuki Furuta Kyushu University
Iwao Yamazaki
Iwao Yamazaki Hokkaido University
Shohei Saito
Shohei Saito Kyoto University
Noboru Mataga
Noboru Mataga Osaka University
Hiromitsu Maeda
Hiromitsu Maeda Ritsumeikan University

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