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2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
94
Citations
30696
World Ranking
1714
National Ranking
87

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

Nagao Kobayashi is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their research is centered primarily within the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a significant emphasis on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry as key subfields. Additional subfields include Molecular Biology, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Spectroscopy.

Their work covers various topics, prominently focusing on Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry. Other important areas of study include the Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry.

Notable recent papers authored by collaborators connected to Kobayashi include:

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Peralkylated Pyrrole-Fused Azacoronene, 2021, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Radially π-Extended Pyrrole-Fused Azacoronene: A Series of Crystal Structures of HPHAC with Various Oxidation States, 2021, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Triangular Expanded Hemiporphyrazines: Electronic Structures and Nanoscale Characterization of Their Adlayers on Au(111), 2020, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • Preparation, Spectroscopic Characterization and Theoretical Study of a Three-Dimensional Conjugated 70 π-Electron Thiophene 6-mer Radical Cation π-Dimer, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Dianion and Dication of Tetracyclopentatetraphenylene as Decoupled Annulene-within-an-Annulene Models, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Kobayashi has frequently published in several academic venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (42 publications)
  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (10 publications)
  • Organic Letters (8 publications)
  • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan (5 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (4 publications)

Frequent coauthors associated with Kobayashi's research include Masayoshi Takase, Hidemitsu Uno, Tetsuo Okujima, Shigeki Mori, and Atsuya Muranaka, indicating collaborative research partnerships across multiple projects.

Best Publications

  • Observation of two charged bottomoniumlike resonances in Υ(5S) decays.

    A. Bondar;A. Garmash;R. Mizuk;D. Santel

  • Low Symmetry Phthalocyanines and Their Analogues

    John Mack;Nagao Kobayashi

  • Effect of peripheral substitution on the electronic absorption and fluorescence spectra of metal-free and zinc phthalocyanines.

    Nagao Kobayashi;Hiroshi Ogata;Naokazu Nonaka;Eugene A. Luk'yanets

  • Electron-Transfer Reactions Associated with Host-Guest Complexation. Oxidation of Ferrocenecarboxylic Acid in the Presence of β-Cyclodextrin

    Tomokazu Matsue;Dennis H. Evans;Tetsuo Osa;Nagao Kobayashi

  • Cation or solvent-induced supermolecular phthalocyanine formation: crown ether substituted phthalocyanines

    Nagao Kobayashi;A. B. P. Lever

  • Optically Active Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Systems

    Hua Lu;Nagao Kobayashi

  • Application of MCD spectroscopy to porphyrinoids

    John Mack;John Mack;Martin J. Stillman;Nagao Kobayashi

  • New Route to Unsymmetrical Phthalocyanine Analogues by the Use of Structurally Distorted Subphthalocyanines

    Nagao Kobayashi;Ryoko Kondo;Shin ichiro Nakajima;Tetsuo Osa

  • Resonance Raman spectroscopy ( n , m ) -dependent effects in small-diameter single-wall carbon nanotubes

    A. Jorio;C. Fantini;M. A. Pimenta;R. B. Capaz

  • Dimers, trimers and oligomers of phthalocyanines and related compounds

    Nagao Kobayashi

  • Halo structure of the island of inversion nucleus 31Ne.

    T Nakamura;N Kobayashi;Y Kondo;Y Satou

  • Structural evolution in the neutron-rich Nuclei Zr106 and Zr108

    T. Sumikama;K. Yoshinaga;H. Watanabe;S. Nishimura

  • Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Molecular Orbital Calculations of Subazaporphyrins, Subphthalocyanines, Subnaphthalocyanines, and Compounds Derived Therefrom by Ring Expansion1

    Nagao Kobayashi;Takeo Ishizaki;Kazuyuki Ishii;Hideo Konami

  • A directly fused tetrameric porphyrin sheet and its anomalous electronic properties that arise from the planar cyclooctatetraene core.

    Yasuyuki Nakamura;Naoki Aratani;Hiroshi Shinokubo;Akihiko Takagi

  • Family behavior of the optical transition energies in single-wall carbon nanotubes of smaller diameters

    Ge. G. Samsonidze;R. Saito;N. Kobayashi;A. Grüneis;A. Grüneis

  • Synthesis, spectroscopy, electrochemistry, spectroelectrochemistry, Langmuir-Blodgett film formation, and molecular orbital calculations of planar binuclear phthalocyanines

    Nagao Kobayashi;Herman Lam;W. Andrew Nevin;Pavel Janda

  • Bounds on the width, mass difference and other properties of X(3872) → π+ π-J/ψ decays

    S.-K. Choi;S. L. Olsen;K. Trabelsi;I. Adachi

  • Unambiguous identification of Möbius aromaticity for meso-aryl-substituted [28]hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1).

    Jeyaraman Sankar;Shigeki Mori;Shohei Saito;Harapriya Rath

  • Gram-scale synthesis of nickel(II) norcorrole: the smallest antiaromatic porphyrinoid.

    Tomohiro Ito;Yosuke Hayashi;Soji Shimizu;Ji Young Shin

  • Synthesis, spectroscopy, and electrochemistry of tetra-tert-butylated tetraazaporphyrins, phthalocyanines, naphthalocyanines, and anthracocyanines, together with molecular orbital calculations.

    Nagao Kobayashi;Shin Ichiro Nakajima;Hiroshi Ogata;Takamitsu Fukuda

  • meso‐Aryl Subporphyrins

    Nagao Kobayashi;Yuichi Takeuchi;Atsushi Matsuda

Frequent Co-Authors

John Mack
John Mack Rhodes University
Tetsuo Osa
Tetsuo Osa Tohoku University
K. Kinoshita
K. Kinoshita University of Cincinnati
L. E. Piilonen
L. E. Piilonen Virginia Tech
S. Ogawa
S. Ogawa Toho University
T. Hara
T. Hara Osaka University
Y. B. Hsiung
Y. B. Hsiung National Taiwan University

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