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Tsutomu Yokozawa

Tsutomu Yokozawa

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Chemistry

D-Index
43
Citations
10636
World Ranking
17055
National Ranking
1342

Overview

Tsutomu Yokozawa is affiliated with Kanagawa University in Japan and specializes in research within the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Organic Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Biomaterials.

Their publications focus on several main topics, including Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, Synthesis and properties of polymers, Conducting polymers and applications, Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, and Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry.

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Tsutomu Yokozawa often coauthors papers with Yoshihiro Ohta, Takayoshi Katoh, Ryusuke Shimada, Hà Trần Nguyên, and Tae-Lim Choi.

They have published extensively in key scientific venues such as the Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Chemistry, European Polymer Journal, Polymer Journal, and The Cambridge Structural Database.

Notable papers include:

  • Synthesis of polyester by means of polycondensation of diol ester and dicarboxylic acid ester through ester-ester exchange reaction (2021, Journal of Polymer Science)
  • Synthesis of cyclic aromatic polymer containing thiophene or pyridine by means of unstoichiometric Suzuki-Miyaura cyclic polycondensation: Effect of the position of bromine of heteroarylenes on cyclic polycondensation (2020, Journal of Polymer Science)
  • Nonstoichiometric Suzuki-Miyaura Polycondensation for the Synthesis of Aromatic Polymers (2020, Polymer Science Series C)
  • Aerobic direct arylation polycondensation of N-perylenyl phenoxazine-based fluorescent conjugated polymers for highly sensitive and selective TNT explosives detection (2023, Dyes and Pigments)
  • Development of Helical Aromatic Amide Foldamers with a Diphenylacetylene Backbone (2020, The Journal of Organic Chemistry)

Best Publications

  • Chain-Growth Polymerization for Poly(3-hexylthiophene) with a Defined Molecular Weight and a Low Polydispersity

    Akihiro Yokoyama;T. Ryo Miyakoshi;Tsutomu Yokozawa

  • Catalyst-transfer polycondensation. mechanism of Ni-catalyzed chain-growth polymerization leading to well-defined poly(3-hexylthiophene).

    Ryo Miyakoshi;and Akihiro Yokoyama;Tsutomu Yokozawa

  • Chain-Growth Condensation Polymerization for the Synthesis of Well-Defined Condensation Polymers and π-Conjugated Polymers

    Tsutomu Yokozawa;Akihiro Yokoyama

  • Atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis with subleading effects in Super-Kamiokande I, II, and III

    R. Wendell;C. Ishihara;K. Abe;Y. Hayato

  • Chain-Growth Polymerization for the Synthesis of Polyfluorene via Suzuki−Miyaura Coupling Reaction from an Externally Added Initiator Unit

    Akihiro Yokoyama;Hirofumi Suzuki;Yasuhiro Kubota;Kazuei Ohuchi

  • Transformation of Step-Growth Polymerization into Living Chain-Growth Polymerization.

    Tsutomu Yokozawa;Yoshihiro Ohta

  • Catalyst-transfer polycondensation for the synthesis of poly(p-phenylene) with controlled molecular weight and low polydispersity.

    Ryo Miyakoshi;Kyohei Shimono;and Akihiro Yokoyama;Tsutomu Yokozawa

  • AN INDIRECT SEARCH FOR WEAKLY INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES IN THE SUN USING 3109.6 DAYS OF UPWARD-GOING MUONS IN SUPER-KAMIOKANDE

    T. Tanaka;K. Abe;K. Abe;Y. Hayato;Y. Hayato;T. Iida

  • Synthesis of Poly(3‐hexylthiophene) with a Narrower Polydispersity

    Ryo Miyakoshi;Ryo Miyakoshi;Akihiro Yokoyama;Tsutomu Yokozawa;Tsutomu Yokozawa

  • Converting step-growth to chain-growth condensation polymerization

    Akihiro Yokoyama;Tsutomu Yokozawa

  • Precision Synthesis of Poly(N-hexylpyrrole) and Its Diblock Copolymer with Poly(p-phenylene) via Catalyst-Transfer Polycondensation

    Akihiro Yokoyama;Akira Kato;Ryo Miyakoshi;Tsutomu Yokozawa

  • Catalyst-Transfer Suzuki―Miyaura Coupling Polymerization for Precision Synthesis of Poly(p-phenylene)

    Tsutomu Yokozawa;Haruhiko Kohno;Yoshihiro Ohta;Akihiro Yokoyama

  • Molecular waterwheel (noria) from a simple condensation of resorcinol and an alkanedial.

    Hiroto Kudo;Rieko Hayashi;Kouji Mitani;Tsutomu Yokozawa

  • Precision synthesis of poly(3-hexylthiophene) from catalyst-transfer Suzuki-Miyaura coupling polymerization.

    Tsutomu Yokozawa;Ryosuke Suzuki;Masataka Nojima;Yoshihiro Ohta

  • Chain-Growth Polycondensation for Nonbiological Polyamides of Defined Architecture

    Tsutomu Yokozawa;Toshinobu Asai;Ryuji Sugi;and Shingo Ishigooka

  • Helical Structures of N-Alkylated Poly(p-benzamide)s

    Aya Tanatani;Akihiro Yokoyama;Isao Azumaya;Yoshinori Takakura

  • HELICAL BIAS IN SOLVOPHOBICALLY FOLDED OLIGO(PHENYLENE ETHYNYLENE)S

    Mary S. Gin;Tsutomu Yokozawa;Ryan B. Prince;Jeffrey S. Moore

  • Chain-growth polycondensation: The living polymerization process in polycondensation

    Tsutomu Yokozawa;Akihiro Yokoyama

  • Importance of the Order of Successive Catalyst-transfer Condensation Polymerization in the Synthesis of Block Copolymers of Polythiophene and Poly(p-phenylene)

    Ryo Miyakoshi;Akihiro Yokoyama;Tsutomu Yokozawa

  • Catalyst-Transfer Condensation Polymerization for the Synthesis of Well-Defined Polythiophene with Hydrophilic Side Chain and of Diblock Copolythiophene with Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Side Chains

    Tsutomu Yokozawa;Isao Adachi;Ryo Miyakoshi;Akihiro Yokoyama

  • Chain-growth polycondensation for well-defined aramide. Synthesis of unprecedented block copolymer containing aramide with low polydispersity.

    Tsutomu Yokozawa;Miyuki Ogawa;Atsushi Sekino;Ryuji Sugi

Frequent Co-Authors

Akihiro Yokoyama
Akihiro Yokoyama Seikei University
Takeshi Endo
Takeshi Endo Kyushu Institute of Technology
Toshikazu Takata
Toshikazu Takata Tokyo Institute of Technology
Masanobu Uchiyama
Masanobu Uchiyama University of Tokyo
Takeshi Nakai
Takeshi Nakai Tokyo Institute of Technology
C. W. Walter
C. W. Walter Duke University
Kate Scholberg
Kate Scholberg Duke University
Y. Totsuka
Y. Totsuka University of Tokyo
Chih-Feng Huang
Chih-Feng Huang National Chung Hsing University
Y. Hayato
Y. Hayato University of Tokyo

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