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Kenji Matsuda

Kenji Matsuda

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Chemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
13445
World Ranking
9230
National Ranking
656

Overview

Kenji Matsuda is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan, contributing extensively to research in the intersecting fields of materials science, chemistry, and physics and astronomy. Their work spans multiple subfields, including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, nuclear and high energy physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of focused areas such as synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, luminescence and fluorescent materials, photochromic and fluorescence chemistry, particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, quantum chromodynamics and particle interactions, magnetism in coordination complexes, and molecular junctions and nanostructures.

Matsuda's publication record features papers in prominent venues, reflecting a breadth of topics and collaborations. Frequent publication venues include Chemistry - A European Journal, Chemistry Letters, The Cambridge Structural Database, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, and Organic Letters.

They have coauthored frequently with several researchers, including Daiki Shimizu, Takashi Hirose, Kenji Higashiguchi, T. Takahashi, and Y. Akazawa, with collaboration counts ranging from 9 to 26 joint publications.

Recent significant papers by Matsuda include:

  • Tuning Transition Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments: [7]Helicenes Showing Intense Circularly Polarized Luminescence, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Circularly Polarized Luminescence Designed from Molecular Orbitals: A Figure-Eight-Shaped [5]Helicene Dimer with D2 Symmetry, 2020, Organic Letters
  • HOMO-LUMO Energy-Gap Tuning of π-Conjugated Zwitterions Composed of Electron-Donating Anion and Electron-Accepting Cation, 2020, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Photochromism for optically functionalized organic field-effect transistors: a comprehensive review, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Doubly linked chiral phenanthrene oligomers for homogeneously π-extended helicenes with large effective conjugation length, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Photochromism of Diarylethene Molecules and Crystals: Memories, Switches, and Actuators

    Masahiro Irie;Tuyoshi Fukaminato;Kenji Matsuda;Seiya Kobatake

  • Novel Pd(II)- and Pt(II)-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective trans-Hydroarylation of Alkynes by Simple Arenes

    Chengguo Jia;Wenjun Lu;Juzo Oyamada;Tsugio Kitamura

  • Full-color photochromism of a fused dithienylethene trimer.

    Kenji Higashiguchi;Kenji Matsuda;Naoki Tanifuji;Masahiro Irie

  • Electrochemical Cyclization/Cycloreversion Reactions of Diarylethenes

    Yoshihisa Moriyama;Kenji Matsuda;Naoki Tanifuji;Setsuko Irie

  • Diarylethene as a photoswitching unit

    Kenji Matsuda;Masahiro Irie

  • Selective detection of NH3 over NO in combustion exhausts by using Au and MoO3 doubly promoted WO3 element

    C.N Xu;N Miura;Y Ishida;K Matsuda

  • New Photoswitching Unit for Magnetic Interaction: Diarylethene with 2,5-Bis(arylethynyl)-3-thienyl Group

    Naoki Tanifuji;Masahiro Irie;Kenji Matsuda

  • Molecular Design Strategy toward Diarylethenes That Photoswitch with Visible Light

    Tuyoshi Fukaminato;Takashi Hirose;Takao Doi;Masaki Hazama

  • Self-assembly of metal-organic polyhedra into supramolecular polymers with intrinsic microporosity

    Arnau Carné-Sánchez;Arnau Carné-Sánchez;Gavin A. Craig;Patrick Larpent;Takashi Hirose

  • Hexa-peri-hexabenzo[7]helicene: Homogeneously π-Extended Helicene as a Primary Substructure of Helically Twisted Chiral Graphenes

    Yusuke Nakakuki;Takashi Hirose;Hikaru Sotome;Hiroshi Miyasaka

  • Tuning Transition Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments: [7]Helicenes Showing Intense Circularly Polarized Luminescence.

    Hiromu Kubo;Takashi Hirose;Takashi Hirose;Takuya Nakashima;Tsuyoshi Kawai

  • Photoswitching of intramolecular magnetic interaction using a diarylethene dimer.

    Kenji Matsuda;Masahiro Irie

  • Photochromic reaction of a fused dithienylethene: multicolor photochromism.

    Kenji Higashiguchi;Kenji Matsuda;Masahiro Irie

  • Self-assembly of photochromic diarylethenes with amphiphilic side chains: reversible thermal and photochemical control.

    Takashi Hirose;Kenji Matsuda;Masahiro Irie

  • Photochromism of diarylethenes with two nitronyl nitroxides: photoswitching of an intramolecular magnetic interaction.

    Kenji Matsuda;Masahiro Irie

  • Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Three Kinds of .pi.-Cross-Conjugated Hexacarbenes with High-Spin (S = 6) Ground States

    Kenji Matsuda;Nobuo Nakamura;Kazuyuki Takahashi;Katsuya Inoue

  • Conductance Photoswitching of Diarylethene-Gold Nanoparticle Network Induced by Photochromic Reaction

    Kenji Matsuda;Hidehiro Yamaguchi;Takeshi Sakano;Masumi Ikeda

  • Reversible Diastereoselective Photocyclization of a Diarylethene in a Single-Crystalline Phase

    Tetsuhiro Kodani;Kenji Matsuda;Taro Yamada;Seiya Kobatake

  • Magnesium alkylidene carbenoids: Generation from 1-halovinyl sulfoxides with Grignard reagents and studies on their property, mechanism, and some synthetic uses

    Tsuyoshi Satoh;Koji Takano;Hiroyuki Ota;Hideaki Someya

  • Control of the photoreactivity of diarylethene derivatives by quaternarization of the pyridylethynyl group.

    Koji Yumoto;Masahiro Irie;Kenji Matsuda

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahiro Irie
Masahiro Irie Rikkyo University
Hiizu Iwamura
Hiizu Iwamura Nihon University
Jun-ya Hasegawa
Jun-ya Hasegawa Hokkaido University
Tsuyoshi Kawai
Tsuyoshi Kawai Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Katsuya Inoue
Katsuya Inoue Hiroshima University
Seiya Kobatake
Seiya Kobatake Osaka Metropolitan University
Denis Jacquemin
Denis Jacquemin University of Nantes
Yoshihiko Kanemitsu
Yoshihiko Kanemitsu Kyoto University
Toyohiro Chikyow
Toyohiro Chikyow National Institute for Materials Science
Hisao Ishii
Hisao Ishii Chiba University

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