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Yasutomo Segawa

Yasutomo Segawa

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Chemistry

D-Index
69
Citations
14940
World Ranking
6298
National Ranking
405

Overview

Yasutomo Segawa is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and works primarily in the fields of materials science and chemistry. Their research focuses on the synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, particularly in relation to carbon-based nanostructures. Segawa's work contributes to understanding crystallization, solubility studies, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography as key methods within their research domain.

Their subfields of study include materials chemistry and organic chemistry, with additional contributions to molecular biology, physical and theoretical chemistry, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials. The main scientific topics covered in their publications are crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, fullerene chemistry and applications, carbon nanotubes in composites, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, and porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry.

Frequent co-authors of Segawa include:

  • Kenichiro Itami
  • Haruki Sugiyama
  • Akiko Yagi
  • Motonobu Kuwayama
  • Hiroki Shudo

The main venues where Segawa publishes research findings are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemical Communications
  • Nature Communications
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Segawa include:

  • Synthesis of a Möbius carbon nanobelt, 2022, Nature Synthesis
  • Synthesis of a zigzag carbon nanobelt, 2021, Nature Chemistry
  • Chemical Synthesis of Carbon Nanorings and Nanobelts, 2021, Accounts of Materials Research
  • Synthetic Strategies of Carbon Nanobelts and Related Belt-Shaped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • A Nonalternant Aromatic Belt: Methylene-Bridged [6]Cycloparaphenylene Synthesized from Pillar[6]arene, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

The research activities of Segawa engage deeply with carbon nanobelts, nanorings, and related polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Their studies explore synthetic strategies and the molecular architectures of these unique carbon structures, contributing knowledge to both the chemical synthesis and functional properties of advanced aromatic compounds. The work also overlaps with fullerene chemistry and carbon nanotube composites, indicating a broad interest in carbon-based nanomaterials and their potential applications.

Best Publications

  • Synthesis of extended π-systems through C-H activation.

    Yasutomo Segawa;Takehisa Maekawa;Kenichiro Itami

  • A grossly warped nanographene and the consequences of multiple odd-membered-ring defects

    Katsuaki Kawasumi;Qianyan Zhang;Yasutomo Segawa;Lawrence T. Scott

  • Boryllithium: Isolation, Characterization, and Reactivity as a Boryl Anion

    Yasutomo Segawa;Makoto Yamashita;Kyoko Nozaki

  • Synthesis of a carbon nanobelt

    Guillaume Povie;Yasutomo Segawa;Taishi Nishihara;Yuhei Miyauchi;Yuhei Miyauchi

  • Structurally uniform and atomically precise carbon nanostructures

    Yasutomo Segawa;Hideto Ito;Kenichiro Itami

  • Initiation of carbon nanotube growth by well-defined carbon nanorings

    Haruka Omachi;Takuya Nakayama;Eri Takahashi;Yasutomo Segawa

  • Synthesis of cycloparaphenylenes and related carbon nanorings: a step toward the controlled synthesis of carbon nanotubes.

    Haruka Omachi;Yasutomo Segawa;Kenichiro Itami

  • Chemistry of boryllithium: synthesis, structure, and reactivity.

    Yasutomo Segawa;Yuta Suzuki;Makoto Yamashita;Kyoko Nozaki

  • Design and Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube Segments.

    Yasutomo Segawa;Akiko Yagi;Katsuma Matsui;Kenichiro Itami

  • Combined experimental and theoretical studies on the photophysical properties of cycloparaphenylenes

    Yasutomo Segawa;Aiko Fukazawa;Sanae Matsuura;Haruka Omachi

  • Topological molecular nanocarbons: All-benzene catenane and trefoil knot

    Yasutomo Segawa;Motonobu Kuwayama;Yuh Hijikata;Yuh Hijikata;Masako Fushimi

  • Theoretical studies on the structures and strain energies of cycloparaphenylenes.

    Yasutomo Segawa;Haruka Omachi;Kenichiro Itami

  • Synthesis, Structures, and Properties of π-Extended Double Helicene: A Combination of Planar and Nonplanar π-Systems.

    Takao Fujikawa;Yasutomo Segawa;Kenichiro Itami

  • Concise Synthesis and Crystal Structure of [12]Cycloparaphenylene

    Yasutomo Segawa;Shinpei Miyamoto;Haruka Omachi;Sanae Matsuura

  • A Modular and Size‐Selective Synthesis of [n]Cycloparaphenylenes: A Step toward the Selective Synthesis of [n,n] Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Haruka Omachi;Sanae Matsuura;Yasutomo Segawa;Kenichiro Itami

  • Syntheses of PBP Pincer Iridium Complexes: A Supporting Boryl Ligand

    Yasutomo Segawa;Makoto Yamashita;Kyoko Nozaki

  • para-C-H Borylation of Benzene Derivatives by a Bulky Iridium Catalyst.

    Yutaro Saito;Yasutomo Segawa;Kenichiro Itami

  • Boryl anion attacks transition-metal chlorides to form boryl complexes: syntheses, spectroscopic, and structural studies on group 11 borylmetal complexes

    Yasutomo Segawa;Makoto Yamashita;Kyoko Nozaki

  • Synthesis, structure of borylmagnesium, and its reaction with benzaldehyde to form benzoylborane.

    Makoto Yamashita;Yuta Suzuki;Yasutomo Segawa;Kyoko Nozaki

  • Inside Cover: Thiophene‐Based, Radial π‐Conjugation: Synthesis, Structure, and Photophysical Properties of Cyclo‐1,4‐phenylene‐2′,5′‐thienylenes (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1/2015)

    Hideto Ito;Yukari Mitamura;Yasutomo Segawa;Kenichiro Itami

  • Polycyclic Arene Synthesis by Annulative π-Extension

    Hideto Ito;Yasutomo Segawa;Kei Murakami;Kenichiro Itami

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenichiro Itami
Kenichiro Itami Nagoya University
Lawrence T. Scott
Lawrence T. Scott Boston College
Kyoko Nozaki
Kyoko Nozaki University of Tokyo
Makoto Yamashita
Makoto Yamashita Nagoya University
Ryo Kitaura
Ryo Kitaura Nagoya University
Hisanori Shinohara
Hisanori Shinohara Nagoya University
Yasumitsu Miyata
Yasumitsu Miyata Tokyo Metropolitan University
Yuhei Miyauchi
Yuhei Miyauchi Kyoto University
Atsushi Wakamiya
Atsushi Wakamiya Kyoto University
Roman Fasel
Roman Fasel Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

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