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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2011 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

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Roger Guilard is affiliated with the University of Burgundy in France and has contributed extensively to research in Materials Science, particularly focusing on Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry. Their work spans multiple subfields including Materials Chemistry, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Physiology.

Their research topics cover a range of specialized areas such as:

  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Melanin and Skin Pigmentation
  • Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence Research

Roger Guilard has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Karl M. Kadish
  • Benoît Habermeyer
  • Kevin M. Smith
  • Tatevik Chilingaryan
  • W. Ryan Osterloh

Their scholarly output includes publications in various venues, with significant contributions to:

  • Series on Chemistry, Energy and the Environment
  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • Handbook of Porphyrin Science
  • Molecules
  • Integrative Zoology

Notable recent papers include:

  • The TDDFT Excitation Energies of the BODIPYs; The DFT and TDDFT Challenge Continues, 2021, Molecules
  • Fur glowing under ultraviolet: in situ analysis of porphyrin accumulation in the skin appendages of mammals, 2022, Integrative Zoology
  • Bactericidal efficiency of porphyrin systems, 2021, Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • Naturally occurring porphyrins: The colored molecules of life, 2024, Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • Fur glowing under ultraviolet: in situ analysis of porphyrin accumulation in the skin appendages of mammals, 2022, Research Square (Research Square)

Roger Guilard has also contributed to several book publications, primarily with World Scientific and World Scientific Publishing Company eBooks. Among these are multiple volumes of the Handbook of Porphyrin Science published in 2020 and 2024, as well as titles such as Towards Multiple Applications of Porphyrinoids (2025).

Regarding professional recognition, Roger Guilard has been awarded membership in the Academia Europaea in 2015 and the European Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Best Publications

  • The porphyrin handbook

    Karl M. Kadish;Kevin M. Smith;Roger Guilard

  • Supramolecular chemistry of metalloporphyrins.

    Irina Beletskaya;Vladimir S. Tyurin;Aslan Yu. Tsivadze;Roger Guilard

  • Cobalt(III) Corroles as Electrocatalysts for the Reduction of Dioxygen: Reactivity of a Monocorrole, Biscorroles, and Porphyrin--Corrole Dyads

    Karl M. Kadish;Laurent Frémond;Zhongping Ou;Jianguo Shao

  • Conformations and coordination schemes of carboxylate and carbamoyl derivatives of the tetraazamacrocycles cyclen and cyclam, and the relation to their protonation states

    M. Meyer;V. Dahaoui-Gindrey;Claude Lecomte;Roger Guilard

  • Mechanism of four-electron reduction of dioxygen to water by ferrocene derivatives in the presence of perchloric acid in benzonitrile, catalyzed by cofacial dicobalt porphyrins.

    Shunichi Fukuzumi;Ken Okamoto;Claude P. Gros;Roger Guilard

  • Some aspects of organometallic chemistry in metalloporphyrin chemistry: synthesis, chemical reactivity, and electrochemical behavior of porphyrins with metal-carbon bonds

    Roger Guilard;Karl M. Kadish

  • Role of the spacer in the singlet-singlet energy transfer mechanism (Förster vs Dexter) in cofacial bisporphyrins.

    Sébastien Faure;Christine Stern;Roger Guilard;Pierre D. Harvey

  • Double-Decker actinide porphyrins and phthalocyanines. Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of neutral, oxidized, and reduced homo- and heteroleptic complexes

    K. M. Kadish;G. Moninot;Y. Hu;D. Dubois

  • The photophysics and photochemistry of cofacial free base and metallated bisporphyrins held together by covalent architectures

    Pierre D. Harvey;Christine Stern;Claude P. Gros;Roger Guilard

  • Synthesis and characterization of a superoxo complex of the dicobalt cofacial diporphyrin [(.mu.-O2)Co2(DPB)(1,5-diphenylimidazole)2][PF6], the structure of the parent dicobalt diporphyrin Co2(DPB), and a new synthesis of the free-base cofacial diporphyrin H4(DPB)

    James P. Collman;James E. Hutchison;Michel Angel Lopez;Alain Tabard

  • Peroxotitanium(IV) porphyrins. Synthesis, stereochemistry, and properties

    Roger Guilard;Jean Marc Latour;Claude Lecomte;Jean Claude Marchon

  • Micellar effects on the aggregation of tetraanionic porphyrins. Spectroscopic characterization of free-base meso-tetrakis(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin, (TPPS)H2, and (TPPS)M (M = zinc(II), copper(II), and vanadyl) in aqueous micellar media

    Karl M. Kadish;G. B. Maiya;C. Araullo;R. Guilard

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Cofacial Metallodiporphyrins Involving Cobalt and Lewis Acid Metals: New Dinuclear Multielectron Redox Catalysts of Dioxygen Reduction

    Roger Guilard;Stephane Brandes;Catherine Tardieux;Alain Tabard

  • Persistent Electron-Transfer State of a π-Complex of Acridinium Ion Inserted between Porphyrin Rings of Cofacial Bisporphyrins

    Makiko Tanaka;Kei Ohkubo;Claude P. Gros;Roger Guilard

  • Catalytic activity of biscobalt porphyrin-corrole dyads toward the reduction of dioxygen.

    Karl M. Kadish;Laurent Frémond;Jing Shen;Ping Chen

  • New Porphycene Ligands: Octaethyl‐ and Etioporphycene (OEPc and EtioPc)—Tetra‐ and Pentacoordinated Zinc Complexes of OEPc

    Emanuel Vogel;Peter Koch;Xue‐Long Hou;Johann Lex

  • Handbook of porphyrin science : with applications to chemistry, physics, materials science, engineering, biology and medicine

    Karl M. Kadish;Kevin M. Smith;Roger Guilard

  • New Synthesis of trans-Disubstituted Cyclam Macrocycles – Elucidation of the Disubstitution Mechanism on the Basis of X-ray Data and Molecular Modeling

    Guy Royal;Valérie Dahaoui-Gindrey;Slimane Dahaoui;Alain Tabard

  • Enhanced Electron‐Transfer Properties of Cofacial Porphyrin Dimers through π–π Interactions

    Atsuro Takai;Claude P. Gros;Jean‐Michel Barbe;Roger Guilard

  • Clarification of the oxidation state of cobalt corroles in heterogeneous and homogeneous catalytic reduction of dioxygen.

    Karl M Kadish;Jing Shen;Laurent Frémond;Ping Chen

  • Handbook of Porphyrin Science (Volume 11): With Applications to Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Engineering, Biology and Medicine

    Karl M Kadish;Kevin M Smith;Roger Guilard

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl M. Kadish
Karl M. Kadish University of Houston
Jean-Michel Barbe
Jean-Michel Barbe University of Burgundy
Irina P. Beletskaya
Irina P. Beletskaya Lomonosov Moscow State University
Claude Lecomte
Claude Lecomte University of Lorraine
Pierre D. Harvey
Pierre D. Harvey Université de Sherbrooke
James P. Collman
James P. Collman Stanford University
Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Robert J. P. Corriu
Robert J. P. Corriu University of Montpellier
François Jérôme
François Jérôme University of Poitiers
James E. Hutchison
James E. Hutchison University of Oregon

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