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Eiji Yashima

Eiji Yashima

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Chemistry
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
102
Citations
34002
World Ranking
1181
National Ranking
53

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
  • 2013 - Chirality Medal, Società Chimica Italiana Japan

Overview

Eiji Yashima is a researcher affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Biomaterials, Molecular Biology, and Spectroscopy.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry

Yashima has published extensively in well-known scientific journals and venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Polymer Science
  • Chirality

Some of the recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Yashima include:

  • Helix-Sense-Selective Synthesis of Right- and Left-Handed Helical Luminescent Poly(diphenylacetylene)s with Memory of the Macromolecular Helicity and Their Helical Structures (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Spin Filtering Along Chiral Polymers (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Helical Polymers with Dynamic and Static Macromolecular Helicity Memory: The Power of Helicity Memory for Helical Polymer Synthesis and Applications (2021), Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • Emergence of Highly Enantioselective Catalytic Activity in a Helical Polymer Mediated by Deracemization of Racemic Pendants (2021), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Synthesis of Single-Handed Helical Spiro-Conjugated Ladder Polymers through Quantitative and Chemoselective Cyclizations (2021), Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The researcher frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Tomoyuki Ikai
  • Kosuke Oki
  • Katsuhiro Maeda
  • Naoki Ousaka
  • Daisuke Taura

Yashima's research achievements include receiving the Chirality Medal from the Società Chimica Italiana in 2013, which highlights scientific contributions associated with Japan.

Best Publications

  • Supramolecular Helical Systems: Helical Assemblies of Small Molecules, Foldamers, and Polymers with Chiral Amplification and Their Functions

    Eiji Yashima;Naoki Ousaka;Daisuke Taura;Kouhei Shimomura

  • Helical polymers: synthesis, structures, and functions

    Eiji Yashima;Katsuhiro Maeda;Hiroki Iida;Yoshio Furusho

  • Polysaccharide Derivatives for Chromatographic Separation of Enantiomers.

    Yoshio Okamoto;Eiji Yashima

  • Memory of macromolecular helicity assisted by interaction with achiral small molecules

    Eiji Yashima;Katsuhiro Maeda;Yoshio Okamoto

  • Polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases for high-performance liquid chromatographic enantioseparation.

    Eiji Yashima

  • Detection and Amplification of Chirality by Helical Polymers

    Eiji Yashima;Katsuhiro Maeda;Tatsuya Nishimura

  • Chirality Assignment of Amines and Amino Alcohols Based on Circular Dichroism Induced by Helix Formation of a Stereoregular Poly((4-carboxyphenyl)acetylene) through Acid−Base Complexation

    Eiji Yashima;Teruyuki Matsushima;Yoshio Okamoto

  • Single- and Double-Stranded Helical Polymers: Synthesis, Structures, and Functions

    Eiji Yashima;Katsuhiro Maeda;Yoshio Furusho

  • Chirality-Responsive Helical Polymers

    Eiji Yashima;Katsuhiro Maeda

  • Switchable enantioseparation based on macromolecular memory of a helical polyacetylene in the solid state

    Kouhei Shimomura;Tomoyuki Ikai;Shigeyoshi Kanoh;Eiji Yashima

  • Chiral Discrimination on Polysaccharides Derivatives

    Eiji Yashima;Yoshio Okamoto

  • Pulsating Tubules from Noncovalent Macrocycles

    Zhegang Huang;Zhegang Huang;Seong-Kyun Kang;Motonori Banno;Tomoko Yamaguchi

  • Poly((4-carboxyphenyl)acetylene) as a Probe for Chirality Assignment of Amines by Circular Dichroism

    Eiji Yashima;Teruaki Matsushima;Yoshio Okamoto

  • Two-Dimensional Surface Chirality Control by Solvent-Induced Helicity Inversion of a Helical Polyacetylene on Graphite

    Shin-ichiro Sakurai;Kento Okoshi;Jiro Kumaki;Eiji Yashima

  • A Modular Strategy to Artificial Double Helices

    Yoshie Tanaka;Hiroshi Katagiri;Yoshio Furusho;Eiji Yashima

  • Detection and Amplification of a Small Enantiomeric Imbalance in α-Amino Acids by a Helical Poly(phenylacetylene) with Crown Ether Pendants

    Ryuji Nonokawa;Eiji Yashima

  • Dynamic helical structures : Detection and amplification of chirality

    Katsuhiro Maeda;Eiji Yashima

  • NMR Studies of Chiral Discrimination Relevant to the Liquid Chromatographic Enantioseparation by a Cellulose Phenylcarbamate Derivative

    Eiji Yashima;Chiyo Yamamoto;Yoshio Okamoto

  • Structural Analysis of Amylose Tris(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) by NMR Relevant to Its Chiral Recognition Mechanism in HPLC

    Chiyo Yamamoto;Eiji Yashima;Yoshio Okamoto

  • Switching of Macromolecular Helicity of Optically Active Poly(phenylacetylene)s Bearing Cyclodextrin Pendants Induced by Various External Stimuli

    Katsuhiro Maeda;Hiroaki Mochizuki;Masaki Watanabe;Eiji Yashima

  • Synthesis and Conformational Study of Optically Active Poly(phenylacetylene) Derivatives Bearing a Bulky Substituent

    Eiji Yashima;Songlin Huang;Teruyuki Matsushima;Yoshio Okamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Katsuhiro Maeda
Katsuhiro Maeda Kanazawa University
Yoshio Okamoto
Yoshio Okamoto Nagoya University
Yoshio Furusho
Yoshio Furusho Shiga University of Medical Science
Mitsuru Akashi
Mitsuru Akashi Osaka University
Koichi Hatada
Koichi Hatada Osaka University
Bezhan Chankvetadze
Bezhan Chankvetadze Tbilisi State University
Takahiro Sato
Takahiro Sato Osaka University
Stephan Irle
Stephan Irle Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ikuro Maruyama
Ikuro Maruyama Kagoshima University
Shu Seki
Shu Seki Kyoto University

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