2005

• "Internally 1,4-Phenylene-Bridged meso-Aryl Substituted Expanded Porphyrins: The Decaphyrin and Octaphyrin Cases"
  V. G. Anand, S. Saito, S. Shimizu, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 44, 7244.



• "N-Confused Porphine"
  T. Morimoto, S. Taniguchi, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2005, 3887.



• "The Importance of a β-β Bond for Long-Range Antiferromagnetic Coupling in Directly Linked Copper(II)- and Silver(II) Diporphyrins"
  T. Ikeue, K. Furukawa, H. Hata, N. Aratani, H. Shinokubo, T. Kato, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 44, 6899.



• "Single Molecule Spectroscopic Investigation on Conformational Heterogeneity of Directly Linked Zinc(II) Porphyrin Arrays"
  M. Park, S. Cho, Z. S. Yoon, N. Aratani, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 15201.



• "Synthesis of Corrole Derivatives through Regioselective Ir-Catalyzed Direct Borylation"
  S. Hiroto, I. Hisaki, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 44, 6763.



• "Phosphonium Ylides from Nucleophilic Addition of Triphenylphosphine to [26]Hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  K. Youfu and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett., 2005, 7, 4381.



• "Positive Heterotropic Cooperativity for Selective Guest Binding via Electronic Communication through a Fused Zinc Porphyrin Array"
  H. Sato, K. Tashiro, H. Shinmori, A. Osuka, Y. Murata, K. Komatsu, and T. Aida
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 13086.



• "Length and Temperature Dependence of Electrical Conduction through Dithiolated Porphyrin Arrays"
  B. K. Kang, N. Aratani, J. K. Lim, D. Kim, A. Osuka, and K.-H. Yoo
  Chem. Phys. Lett., 2005, 412, 303.



• "Comparative Photophysics of [26]- and [28]Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1): Large Two-Photon Absorption Cross Section of Aromatic [26]Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  T.K. Ahn, J. H. Kwon, D. Y. Kim, D. W. Cho, D. H. Jeong, S. K. Kim, M. Suzuki, S. Shimizu, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 12856.



• "Reversible Caterpillar-motion-like Isomerization in a N,N'-Dimethyl Hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1) Induced by Two-Electron Oxidation or Reduction"
  M. Suzuki and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun., 2005, 3685.



• "Enlarged π-Electronic Network of a meso-meso, β-β, β-β Triply Linked Dibenzoporphyrin Dimer that Exhibits a Large Two-Photon Absorption Cross Section"
  Y. Inokuma, N. Ono, H. Uno, D. Y. Kim, S. B. Noh, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun., 2005, 3782.



• "Synthesis and Characterization of Fully Conjugated Porphyrin Tapes"
  T. Ikeue, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka
  Israel J. Chem., 2005, 45, 293.



• "Aromatic and Antiaromatic Gold(III) Hexaphyrins with Multiple Gold-Carbon Bonds"
  S. Mori and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 8030.



• "Group 10 Metal Complexes of meso-Aryl Substituted [26]Hexaphyrins with a Metal-Carbon Bond"
  S. Mori, S. Shimizu, R. Taniguchi, and A. Osuka
  Inorg. Chem., 2005, 44, 4127.



• "Highly Regioselective Ir-Catalyzed β-Borylation of Porphyrins via C-H Bond Activation and Construction of β-β Linked Diporphyrin"
  H. Hata, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 8264.



• "Effect of Conformational Heterogeneity on Excitation Energy Transfer Efficiency in Directry meso-meso Linked Zn(II) Porphyrin Arrays"
  T. K. Ahn, Z. S. Yoon, I.-W. Hwang, J. K. Lim, H. Rhee, T. Joo, E. Sim, S. K. Kim, N. Aratani, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Phys. Chem. B, 2005, 109, 11223.



• "Dicopper and Disilver Complexes of Octaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1): Reversible Hydrolytic Cleavage of the Pyrrolic Ring to a Keto-Imine"
  S. Shimizu, Y. Tanaka, K. Youfu, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 44, 3726.



• "meso-Alkyl Substituted meso-meso Linked Diporphyrins and meso-Alkyl Substituted meso-meso, β-β, β-β Triply Linked Diporphyrins"
  S. Hiroto and A. Osuka
  J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70, 4054.



• "Excitation Energy Migration in A Dodecameric Porphyrin Wheel"
  I.-W. Hwang, D. M. Ko, T. K. Ahn, Z. S. Yoon, D. Kim, X. Peng, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka
  J. Phys. Chem. B, 2005, 109, 8643.



• "Cyclic Dimer of a Fused Porphyrin Zinc Complex as a Novel Host with Two π-Electronically Coupled Binding Sites"
  H. Sato, K. Tashiro, H. Shinmori, A. Osuka, and T. Aida
  Chem. Commun., 2005, 2324.



• "Giant meso-meso Linked Porphyrin Arrays of Micrometer Molecular Length and Their Fabrication"
  N. Aratani, A. Takagi, Y. Yanagawa, T. Matsumoto, T. Kawai, Z. S. Yoon, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 2005, 11, 3389.



• "Large Two-Photon Absorption (TPA) Cross-Section of Directly Linked Fused Diporphyrins"
  D. Y. Kim, T. K. Ahn, J. H. Kwon, D. Kim, T. Ikeue, N. Aratani, A. Osuka, M. Shigeiwa, and S. Maeda
  J. Phys. Chem. A, 2005, 109, 2996.



• "meso-Aryl Substituted [26]Hexaphyrin(1.1.0.1.1.0) and [38]Nonaphyrin(1.1.0.1.1.0.1.1.0) from Oxidative Coupling of a Tripyrrane"
  S. Shimizu, R. Taniguchi, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 44, 2225.



• "N-Fused Pentaphyrins and Their Rhodium Complexes: Oxidation-induced Rhodium Rearrangement"
  S. Mori, J.-Y. Shin, S. Shimizu, F. Ishikawa, H. Furuta, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 2005, 11, 2417.



• "A Doubly N-Fused Benzohexaphyrin and Its Rearrangement to a Fluorescent Macrocycle upon DDQ Oxidation"
  Y. Inokuma, T. Matsunari, N. Ono, H. Uno and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 45, 1856.



• "Synthesis of meso-Azulenylporphyrins"
  K. Kurotobi and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett., 2005, 7, 1055.



• "Obserbation of the Whole Bell-Shaped Energy Gap Law in the Intra-Molecular Charge Separation (CS) from S₂ State of Directly Linked Zn-Porphyrin-Imide Dyads: Examination of Wider Range of Energy Gap (-ΔG_CS) for the CS Rates in Normal Regions"
  N. Mataga, S. Taniguchi, H. Chosrowjan, A. Osuka, and K. Kurotobi
  Chem. Phys. Lett., 2005, 403, 163.



• "Photosensitizing Properties of Diazaporphyrin Derivatives for Singlet Oxygen Generation"
  H. Shinmori, F. Kodaira, S. Matsugo, S. Kawabata, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Lett., 2005, 34, 322.



• "Quantum-Chemical Investigation of the Electroabsorption Spectra of Directly meso-meso Linked Porphyrin Arrays: Essential Role of Charge-Transfer Excited States Accidentally Overlapping with Soret Bands"
  Y. Matsuzaki, A. Nogami, Y. Iwaki, N. Ohta, N. Yoshida, N. Aratani, A. Osuka, and K. Tanaka
  J. Phys. Chem. A., 2005, 109, 703.



• "Anthracene-Bridged Z-shape [26]Hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1) Dimer from Regioselective Diels-Alder Reaction of Hexaphyrin with Bis-o-Xylylene Equivalent."
  H. Hata, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 932.



• "Helicity Induction and Two-Photon Absorbance Enhancement in Zinc(II) meso-meso Linked Porphyrin Oligomers via Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding Interaction"
  C. Ikeda, Z. S. Yoon, M. Park, H. Inoue, D. Kim and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 534.



• "Directly meso-meso Linked Porphyrin Rings: Synthesis, Characterization, and Efficient Excitation Energy Hopping"
  Y. Nakamura, I.-W. Hwang, N. Aratani, T. K. Ahn, D. M. Ko, A. Takagi, T. Kawai, T. Matsumoto, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 236.



• "Magnetic Circular Dichroism Study of Directly Fused Porphyrins "
  A. Muranaka, M. Yokoyama, Y. Matsumoto, M. Uchiyama, A. Tsuda, A. Osuka and N. Kobayashi
  ChemPhysChem., 2005, 6, 171.