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2009

• "Doubly β,β’-Functionalized meso-meso Directly Linked Porphyrin Dimer Sensitizers for Photovoltaics"
  J. K. Park, J. Chen, H. R. Lee, S. W. Park, H. Shinokubo, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Phys. Chem. C,113, 21959-21963 (2009)



• "Synthesis of Arylated Perylene Bisimides through Ruthenium Catalysis"
  S. Nakazono, S. Easwaramoorthi, D. Kim, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett.,11, 5426-5429 (2009)



• "meso, meso’-Bis(5-Azaindol-2-yl) Appended meso-meso Linked Zn(II) Diporphyrin: A Discrete Fluorescent Assembly"
  C. Maeda, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett., 11, 5322-5325 (2009)



• "BODIPY-Hexaphyrin Hybrids"
  J.-Y. Shin, T. Tanaka, A. Osuka, Q. Miao, and D. Dolphin
  Chem. Eur. J., 15, 12955-12959 (2009)



• "Structural Dependence on Excitation Energy Migration Processes in Artificial Light Harvesting Cyclic Zn(II) Porphyrin Arrays"
  M.-C. Yoon, P. Kim, T. Hori, N. Aratani, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Phys. Chem. B, 113, 15074-15082 (2009)



• "T-shaped Three-Coordinate Copper(II) Heptaphyrin Complexes"
  S. Saito, K. Furukawa, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,48, 8086-8089 (2009) VIP



• "Palladium-Catalyzed Dimerization of meso-Bromoporphyrins: Highly Regioselective meso–β Coupling via Unprecedented Remote C–H bond Cleavage"
  S. Tokuji, T. Yurino, N. Aratani, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J.,15, 12208-12211 (2009)



• "Versatile Photophysical Properties of meso-Aryl Substituted Subporphyrins: Dipolar and Octupolar Charge Transfer Interactions"
  S. Easwaramoorthi, J.-Y. Shin, S. Cho, P. Kim, Y. Inokuma, E. Tsurumaki, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  Chem. Eur. J.,15, 12005-12017 (2009)



• "Selective Formation of a Single Atropisomer of meso-meso Linked ZnII Diporphyrin via Supramolecular Self-Assembly"
  C. Maeda, T. Kamada, N. Aratani, T. Sasamori, N. Tokitoh, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J.,15, 9681-9684 (2009)



• "Multiple Conformational Changes of β-Tetraphenyl meso-Hexakis(pentafluorophenyl) Substituted [26] and [28]Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  T. Koide, K. Youfu, S. Saito, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun., 6047-6049 (2009)



• "Thermal Fusion Reactions of meso-(3-Thienyl) Groups in [26]Hexaphyrins to Produce Möbius Aromatic Molecules"
  M. Inoue, K. S. Kim, M. Suzuki, J. M. Lim, J.-Y. Shin, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,48, 6687-6689 (2009)



• "Regioselective Ru-Catalyzed Direct 2,5,8,11-Alkylation of Perylene Bisimides"
  S. Nakazono, Y. Imazaki, H. Yoo, J. Yang, N. Tokitoh, T. Sasamori, D. Kim, T. Cédric, H. Kageyama, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J.,15, 7530-7533 (2009)



• "Structural Factors Determining Photophysical Properties of Directly-linked Zinc(II) Porphyrin Dimers; Linking Position, Dihedral Angle, and LinkageLength"
  S. Cho, M.-C. Yoon, J. M. Lim, P. Kim, N. Aratani, Y. Nakamura, T. Ikeda, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Phys. Chem. B.,113, 10619-10627 (2009)



• "Ultrafast All-optical Light Modulation in the Near Infrared Region by Phase Sensitive Polymer Guided Wave Mode Geometry Containing Porphyrin Tapes"
  R. Matsumoto, T. Nagamura, N. Aratani, T. Ikeda, and A. Osuka
  App. Phys. Lett.,94, 253301 (2009)



• "Meso-β Doubly Linked Zn(II) Porphyrin Trimers: Distinct anti-versus-syn Effects on Their Photophysical Properties"
  T. Ikeda, N. Aratani, S. Easwaramoothi, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett.,11, 3080-3083 (2009)



• "Capped Subporphyrins"
  Y. Inokuma and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J.,15, 6863-6876 (2009)



• "Bis-rhodium hexaphyrins: metalation of [28]hexaphyrin and a smooth Hückel aromatic-antiaromatic interconversion"
  H. Rath, N. Aratani, J. M. Lim, J. S. Lee, D. Kim, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun., 3762-3764 (2009)



• "Synthesis of Extremely π-Extended Porphyrin Tapes from Hybrid meso-meso Linked Porphyrin Arrays: An Approach Towards the Conjugation Length"
  T. Ikeda, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Asian J., 4, 1248-1256 (2009)



• "Optical Resolution and Diameter-Based Enrichment of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes through Simultaneous Recognition of Their Helicity and Diameter with Chiral Monoporphyrin"
  X. Peng, F. Wang, T. Kimura, N. Komatsu, and A. Osuka
  J. Phys. Chem. C, 113, 9108-9113 (2009)



• "Triply N-Confused Hexaphyrins: New Near-IR Luminescent Dyes of a Triangular Shape"
  X. Yong-Shu, K. Yamaguchi, M. Toganoh, H. Uno, M. Suzuki, S. Mori, S. Saito, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48, 5496-5499 (2009)



• "Determination of the Superradiance Coherence Length of Directly Linked Linear Porphyrin Arrays at the Single-molecule Level"
  J. Yang, H. Yoo, N. Aratani, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48, 4323-4327 (2009)



• "Post-Modification of meso-meso Linked Porphyrin Arrays via Iridium and Rhodium Catalyses for Tuning of Energy Gap"
  J. Chen, N. Aratani, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Asian J., 4, 1126-1133 (2009)



• "Metathesis-like Splitting Reactions of Metallated [36]Octaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1): Experimental and Computational Investigations"
  Y. Tanaka, H. Shinokubo, Y. Yoshimura, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 15, 5674-5685 (2009) inside cover



• "Functionalization of Boron Dipyrrin (BODIPY) Dyes though Iridium and Rhodium Catalyses: A Complementary Approach to α- and β-Substituted BODIPYs"
  J. Chen, M. Mizumura, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J, 15, 5942-5949 (2009)



• "Facile Formation of a Benzopyrane-Fused [28]Hexaphyrin That Exhibits Distinct Möbius Aromaticity"
  S. Tokuji, J.-Y. Shin, K. S. Kim, J. M. Lim, K. Youfu, S. Saito, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 7240-7241 (2009), Editor's Choice in Science.



• "Application of the Perimeter Model to the Assignment of the Electronic Absorption Spectra of Gold(III) Hexaphyrins with [4n+2] and [4n] π-Electron Systems
  A. Muranaka, O. Matsushita, K. Yoshida, S. Mori, M. Suzuki, T. Furuyama, M. Uchiyama, A. Osuka, and N. Kobayashi
  Chem. Eur. J., 15, 3744-3751 (2009).



• "Aromatic versus Antiaromatic Effect on Photophysical Properties of Conformationally Locked trans-Vinylene Bridged Hexaphyrins"
  M.-C. Yoon, S. Cho, M. Suzuki, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 7360-7367 (2009)



• "Unusual Interchromophoric Interactions in β-β’ Directly and Doubly Linked Corrole Dimers; Prohibited Electronic Communication and Abnormal Singlet Ground States"
  S. Cho, J. M. Kim, S. Hiroto, P. Kim, H. Shinokubo, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 6412-6420 (2009)



• "Homo- and Heterobismetal Complexes of 5-Hydroxy-10,15,25,30-Tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl) Substituted [26]Hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  T. Koide, G. Kashiwazaki, K. Furukawa, and A. Osuka
  Inorg. Chem., 48, 4595-4597 (2009)



• "Conformational Changes of meso-Aryl Substituted Expanded Porphyrins upon Protonation: Effects on Photophysical Properties and Aromaticity"
  J.-Y. Shin, L. J. Min, Z. S. Yoon, K. S. Kim, M.-C. Yoon, S. Hiroto, H. Shinokubo, H. Shimizu, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Phys. Chem. B., 113, 5794-5802 (2009)



• "Facile Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of 1,2-Phenylene-bridged Porphyrin Dimers"
  K. Osawa, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka
  Tetrahedron Lett., 50, 3333-3337 (2009)



• "Temperature Dependent Conformational Change of meso-Hexakis(pentafluorophenyl) [28]Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1) into Möbius Structures"
  K. S. Kim, Z. S. Yoon, A. B. Ricks, J.-Y. Shin, S. Mori, J. Sankar, S. Saito, Y. M. Yung, M. R. Wasielewski, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Phys. Chem., 113, 4498-4506 (2009)



• "Adsorption Characteristics of Self-Assembled Corrole Dimers on HOPG"
  X. Miao, A. Gao, S. Hiroto, H. Shinokubo, A. Osuka, H. Xin, and W. Deng
  Sur. Interface Anal., 41, 225-230 (2009).



• "First Self-Assembly Study of Large p-Conjugated Corrole Dimers on Solid Substrates"
  X. Miao, A. Gao, Z. Li, S. Hiroto, H. Shinokubo, A. Osuka, and W. Deng
  Appl. Sur. Sci.,255, 5885-5890 (2009).



• "1,4-Phenylene-bridged Subporphyrin-Porphyrin Dyad, Triad, and Tetrad"
  Y. Inokuma, Shin-ya Hayashi, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Lett., 38, 206-207 (2009)



• "Zwitterionic Corrole: Regioselective Nucleophilic Pyridination of a Doubly Linked Biscorrole"
  S. Hiroto, N. Aratani, N. Shibata, Y. Higuchi, T. Sasamori, N. Tokitoh, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48, 2388-2390 (2009)



• "Fluorescence Dynamics of Directly meso-meso Linked Porphyrin Rings Probed by Single Molecule Spectroscopy"
  H. Yoo, J. Yang, Y. Nakamura, N. Aratani, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 1488-1494 (2009)



• "Simultaneous Cleavage of sp² C―H and sp³ Bonds on One Metal Center: DMF-appended　Cyclometalated Pt(II)- and Pt(IV)-Porphyrins"
  S. Yamaguchi, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Inorg. Chem, 48, 795-797 (2009)



• "Synthesis of Pyridine-Fused Porphyrinoid: Oxopyridochlorin"
  S. Tokuji, Y. Takahashi, H. Shinmori, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun., 1028-1030 (2009)



• "Synthesis of Norbornane-Bridged Diporphyrins via Pd-Catalyzed [3 + 2] Annulation Strategy"
  M. Mizumura, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Synthesis, 59-61 (2009)



• "Peripheral Hexabromination, Hexaphenylation, and Hexaethynylation of meso-Aryl Substituted Subporphyrins"
  E. Tsurumaki, Y, Inokuma, S. Easwaramoorthi, J. M. Lim, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 15, 237-247 (2009)

2008

• "Synthesis of N-Confused Tetraphenylporphyrin Rhodium Complexes Having Versatile metal Oxidation States"
  A. Srinivasan, M. Toganoh, T. Niino, A. Osuka, H. Furuta
  Inorg. Chem., 47, 11305-11313 (2008)



• "3,3’-and 4,4’-Biphenylene Bridged Subporphyrin Dimers"
  Y. Inokuma and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett., 10, 5561-5564 (2008)



• "Protonation-Triggered Conformational Changes to Möbius Aromatic [32]Heptaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  S. Saito, J.Y. Shin, J. M. Lim, K. S. Lim, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47, 9657-9660 (2008)



• "A Stable Radical from Facile Oxygenation of meso-Free 5,10,20,25-Tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl) Substituted [26]Hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  T. Koide, G. Kashiwazaki, M. Suzuki, K. Furukawa, M.-C. Yoon, S. Cho, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 47, 9661-9665 (2008)



• "Pt(II)- and Pt(IV)-Bridged Cofacial Diporphyrins via Carbon―Transition sigma-Bonds"
  S. Yamaguchi, T. Katoh, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 14440-14441 (2008)



• "Prominent Electron Transport Property Observed for Triply Fused Metalloporphyrin Dimer: Directed Columnar Liquid Crystalline Assembly by Amphiphilic Molecular Design"
  T. Sakurai, K. Shi, H. Sato, K. Tashiro, A. Osuka, A. Saeki, S. Seki, S. Tagawa, S. Sasaki, K. Osaka, M. Tasaka, and T. Aida
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 13812-13813 (2008)



• "Simultaneous Enrichments of Optical Purity and (n, m) Abundance of SWNTs through Extraction with 3,6-Carbazolylene-Bridged Chiral Diporphyrin Nanotweezers"
  X. Peng, N. Komatsu, T. Kimura, A. Osuka
  ACS nano, 2, 2045-2050 (2008)



• "Synthesis and Characterizations of Free base and Cu(II) Complex of a Porphyrin Sheet"
  Y. Nakamura, N. Aratani, K. Furukawa, and A. Osuka
  Tetrahedron, 64, 11433-11439 (2008)



• "Photoelectrochemical Properties of Doubly beta-Functionalized Porphyrin Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Nanocrystalline-TiO2 Solar Cells"
  J. K. Park, H. R. Lee, J. Chen, H. Shinokubo, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Phys. Chem. C, 112, 16691-16699 (2008)



• "Unambiguous Identification of Möbius Aromaticiy for meso-Aryl Substituted [28]Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  J. Sankar, S. Mori, S. Saito, H. Rath, M. Suzuki, Y. Inokuma, H. Shinokubo, K. S. Kim, Z. S. Yoon, J.-Y. Shin, J. M. Lim, Y. Matsuzaki, O. Matsushita, A. Muranaka, N. Kobayashi, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 13568-13579 (2008)



• "meso-(4-(N,N-Dialkylamino)phenyl)-Substituted Subporphyrins: Remarkably Perturbed Absorption Spectra and Enhanced Fluorescence by Intramolecular Charge Transfer Interactions"
  Y. Inokmua, S. Easwaramoothi, Z. S. Yoon, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 12234-12235 (2008)



• "A meso-meso Directly Linked Octameric Porphyrin Square"
  N. Aratani and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun, 4067-4069 (2008)



• "Two Dimensionally Extended Porphyrin Tapes: Synthesis and Shape-Dependent Two-Photon Absorption Properties"
  Y. Nakamura, S. Y. Jang, T. Tanaka, N. Aratani, J. M. Lim, K. S. Kim, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J, 14, 8279-8289 (2008)



• "Synthesis of Novel Chiral Porphyrins through Pd-Catalyzed [3+2] Annulation and Heterochiral Self-Assembling to Form"
  M. Mizumura, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47, 5378-5381 (2008)



• "Effective Expansion of Subporphyrin Chromophore Through Conjugation with meso-Oligo(1,4-phenyleneethynylene) Substituents: Octupolar Effect on Two-Photon Absorption"
  Y. Inokuma, S. Easwaramoorthi, S. Y. Yang, K. S. Kim, S. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47, 4840-4843 (2008)



• "2,5-Thionylene-Bridged Triangular and Linear Porphyrin Trimers"
  J. Song, S. Y. Jang, S. Yamaguchi, J. Sankar, S. Hiroto, N. Aratani, J.-Y. Shin, S. Easwaramoorthi, K. S. Kim, D. Kim, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47, 6004-6007 (2008)



• "Hetero-Bismetal Complexes of [26]Hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  S. Mori, and A. Osuka
  Inorg. Chem., 47, 3937-3939 (2008)



• "Regioselective [3+4] Cycloaddition of an Azomethine Ylide to meso-meso, β-β, β'-β' Triply Linked Diporphyrins"
  T. Tanaka, Y. Nakamura, N.Aratani, and A. Osuka
  Tetrahedron Lett., 49, 3308-3311 (2008)



• "Efficient Rhodium-Catalyzed Installation of Unsaturated Ester Functions onto Porphyrins: Site-Specific Heck-Type Addition versus Conjugate Addition"
  H. Baba, J. Chen, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 14, 4256-4262 (2008)



• "Intramolecular Energy Transfer within Butadiyne-Linked Chlorophyll and Porphyrin Dimer-Faced, Self-assembled Prisms"
  R. F. Kelly, S. J. Lee, T. M. Wilson, Y. Nakamura, D. M. Tiede, A. Osuka, J. T. Hupp, and M. R. Wasielewski
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 4277-4284 (2008)



• "Synthesis of Large meso-Pentafluorophenyl Substituted Expanded Porphyrins"
  Y. Tanaka, J.-Y. Shin, and A. Osuka
  Eur. J. Org. Chem., COVER, 1341-1349 (2008)



• "meso-Aryl Substituted Rubyrin and Its Higher Homologs: Structural Characterization and Novel Properties"
  S. Shimizu, W.-S. Cho, J. Sessler, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., COVER, 14, 2668-2678 (2008)



• "Dimeric Assemblies from 1,2,3-Triazole-Appended Zn(II) Porphyrins with Control of NH-Tautomerism in 1,2,3-Triazole"
  C. Maeda, S. Yamaguchi, C. Ikeda, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett., 10, 549-552 (2008)



• "Möbius Aromaticity in N-Fused [24]Pentaphyrin upon Rh(I) Metallation"
  J. K. Park, Z. S. Yoon, M.-C. Yoon, K. S. Kim, S. Mori, J.-Y. Shin, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 1824-1825 (2008)



• "Highly Selective Ir-Catalyzed Direct Sixfold Borylation of Peripheral Aromatic Substituents on Hexakisaryl-substituted [28]Hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  G. Mori, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Tetrahedron Lett., 49, 2170-2172 (2008)



• "Excitation Energy Migration Processes in Cyclic Porphyrin Arrays Probed by Single Molecule Spectroscopy"
  J. Yang, M. Park, Z. S. Yoon, T, Hori, X. Peng, N. Aratani, J. Hotta, H. Uji-i, M. Sliwar, J. Hofkens, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 1879-1884 (2008)



• "Synthesis and Characterization of meso-Aryl Substituted Subchlorins"
  E. Tsurumaki, S. Saito, K. S. Kim, J. M. Lim, Y. Inokuma, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 438-439 (2008)



• "Metallation of Expanded porphyrins: A Chemical Trigger Used to Produce Molecular Twisting and Möbius Aromaticity"
  Y. Tanaka, S. Saito, S. Mori, N. Aratani, H. Shinokubo, N. Shibata, Y. Higuchi, Z. S. Yoon, K. S. Kim, S. B. Noh, J. K. Park, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., VIP, 47, 681-684 (2008)



• "Synthesis of Nanometer-scale Porphyrin Wheels of Variable Size"
  T. Hori, X. Peng, N. Aratani, A. Takagi, T. Matsumoto, T. Kawai, Z. S. Yoon, M.-C. Yoon, J. Yang, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 14, 582-595 (2008)



• "Bay-Area Selective Thermal [4 + 2] and [4 + 4] Cycloaddition Reactions of Triply Linked Zn(II) Diporphyrin with o-Xylylene"
  T. Tanaka, Y. Nakamura, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 14, 204-211 (2008)

2007

• "Improved Optical Enrichment of SWNTs through Extraction with Chiral Nano-tweezers of 2,6-Pyridylene-bridged Diporphyrins"
  X. Peng, N. Komatsu, T. Kimura, A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 15947-15953 (2007)



• "Perturbation of Electronic States and Energy Relaxation Dynamics in a Series of Phenylene Bridged Zn(II) Porphyrins Dimer"
  S. Cho, M.-C. Yoon, C. H. Kim, N. Aratani, G. Mori, T. Joo, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Phys. Chem. C, 111, 14881-14888 (2007)



• "A Hexagonal Prismatic Porphyrin Array: Synthesis, STM Detection, and Efficient Energy Hopping in Near Infrared Region"
  M.-C. Yoon, Z. S. Yoon, S. Cho, D. Kim, A. Takagi, T. Matsumoto, T. Kawai, T. Hori, X. Peng, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka
  J. Phys. Chem. A, 111, 9233-9239 (2007)



• "Peripheral Fabrications of a Bis-Gold(III) Complex of [26]Hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1) and Aromatic versus Antiaromatic Effect on Two-Photon Absorption Cross Section"
  S. Mori, K. S. Kim, Z. S. Yoon, S. B. Noh, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 11344-11345 (2007)



• "Photophysics of meso-β Doubly Linked Ni(II) Porphyrin Arrays: Large Two-photon Absorption Cross Section and Fast Energy Relaxation Dynamics"
  M.-C. Yoon, S. B. Noh, A. Tsuda, Y. Nakamura, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 10080-10081 (2007)



• "Complementary Face-to-face Dimer Formation from meso-Aryl Subporphyrins Bearing a 2-Caroboxyphenyl Group"
  Y. Inokuma and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun., 2938-2940 (2007)



• "Synthesis of Three-dimensionally Arranged Porphyrin Arrays via Intramolecular meso-meso Coupling"
  G. Mori, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka,
  Tetrahedoron, 63, 7916-7925 (2007)



• "Boron(III) Subporphyrin Extrusion from meso-Heptakis(pentafluorophenyl) [32]Heptaphyrin upon Cooperative Cu(II) and B(III) Metallation"
  S. Saito, K. S. Kim, Z. S. Yoon, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 5591-5593 (2007)



• "Synthesis of 5-Azainodolyl Appended Zn(II) Porphyrins via Pd-Catalyzed Annulation"
  C. Maeda, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett., 9, 2493-2496 (2007)



• "Charge Transfer Induced Enhancement of Near IR Two-photon Absorption of 5,15-Bis(azulenylethynyl) Zinc(II) Porphyrins "
  K. S. Kim, S. B. Noh, T. Katsuda, S. Ito, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  Chem. Commun., 2479-2481 (2007)



• "Experimental and Theoretical Investigations on Paratropic Ring Current of a Porphyrin Sheet"
  Y. Nakamura, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Asian J., 2, 860-866 (2007)



• "Synthesis of Doubly β-to-β1,3-Butadiyne-Bridged Diporphyrins: Enforced Planar Structures and Large Two-photon Absorption Cross Sections"
  I. Hisaki, S. Hiroto, K. S. Kim, S. B. Noh, D. Kim, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 5125-5128 (2007)



• "Porphyrin Pincer Complexes: Peripherally Cyclometallated Porphyrins and Their Catalytic Activities Controlled by Central Metals"
  S. Yamaguchi, T. Katoh, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 6392-6393 (2007)



• "Regioselective Borylation of Porphyrins via C-H Bond Activation under Iridium Catalysis That Affords Useful Building Blocks for Porphyrin Assemblies"
  H. Hata, S. Yamaguchi, G. Mori, S. Nakazono, T. Katoh, K. Takatsu, S. Hiroto, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Asian J. (cover), 2, 849-859 (2007)



• "Intramolecular [3 + 2] Annulation in 5-Aryl-20-ethynyl substituted [26]Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1) Triggered by Molecular Compression via Dynamic Conformational Change"
  M. Suzuki and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 5171-5174 (2007)



• "Optically Active Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes"
  X. Peng, N. Komatsu, T. Shimawaki, S. Aonuma, T. Kimura, and A. Osuka
  Nature Nanotechnology, 2, 361-365 (2007)



• "Group 12 Metal Complexes of [26]Hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  S. Mori, S. Shimizu, J.-Y. Shin, and A. Osuka
  Inorg. Chem., 46, 4374-4376 (2007)



• "Syntheses of Aryl- and Arylethynyl-Substituted N-Confused Porphyrins"
  T. Ishizuka, H. Yamasaki, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  Tetrahedron, 63, 5137-5147 (2007)



• "Meso-Aryl-Substituted Subporphyrins: Synthesis, Structures, and Large Substituent Effects on Their Electronic Properties"
  Y. Inokuma, Z. S. Yoon, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 4747-4761 (2007)



• "Single Molecule Spectroscopic Investigation of Energy Migration Processes in Cyclic Porphyrin Arrays"
  M. Park, M.-C. Yoon, Z. S. Yoon, T. Hori, X. Peng, N. Aratani, J. Hotta, H. Ujiki, M. Sliwa, J. Hofkens, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 3539-3544 (2007)



• "Synthesis of Calix[3]dipyrrins As an Effective Tris-Metal-Coordinating Ligand by Modified Lindsey Protocol of Porphyrin Synthesis"
  M. Inoue, C. Ikeda, Y. Kawata, S. Venkatraman, K. Furukawa, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 2306-2309 (2007)



• "Cross-Bridging Reaction of 5,20-Diethynyl Substituted Hexaphyrins Vinylene-Bridged Hexaphyrins"
  M. Suzuki and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 464-465 (2007)



• "Polarity-tuned Energy Transfer Efficiency in Artificial Light-Harvesting Antennae Containing Carbonyl Cartenoids Peridinin and Fucoxanthin"
  T. Polivka, M. Pellnor, E. Melo, T. Pascher, V. Sundström, A. Osuka, and K. R. Naqvi
  J. Phys. Chem. C, 111, 467-476 (2007)



• "[40]Nonaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1) and Its Hetero-metallic Complexes with Palladium-Carbon Bonds"
  Y. Kamimura, S. Shimizu, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 13, 1620-1628 (2007)



• "Conformational Control of [26]Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1) by meso-Thienyl Substituent"
  M. Suzuki and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 13, 196-202 (2007)

2006

• "Intramolecular and Intermolecular Energy Transfers in Donor-Acceptor Linear Porphyrin Arrays"
  H. Rhee, T. Joo, N. Aratani, A. Osuka, S. Cho, and D. Kim
  J. Chem. Phys., 125, 074902 (2006)



• "Halide-Anion Binding by Singly and Doubly N-Confused Porphyrins"
  H. Maeda, T. Morimoto, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  Chem. Asian J., 1, 832-844 (2006)



• "Facile Peripheral Functionalization of Porphyrins by Pd-Catalyzed [3 + 2] Annulation with Alkynes"
  A. K. Sahoo, S. Mori, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.(VIP), 45, 7972-7975 (2006)



• "Nonlinear Optical Properties and Excited-State Dynamics of Highly Symmetric Expanded Porphyrins"
  Z. S. Yoon, J. H. Kwon, M.-C. Yoon, M. K. Koh, S. B. Noh, J. L. Sessler, J. T. Lee, D. Seidel, A. Aguilar, S. Shimizu, M. Suzuki, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 14128-14134 (2006)



• "N-Fusion Reaction Sequence of Heptaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1.1); Singly, Doubly, and Quadruply N-Fused Heptaphyrin"
  S. Saito and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 12, 9095-9102 (2006)



• "Synthesis and Biradicaloid Character of Doubly Linked Corrole Dimers"
  S. Hiroto, K. Furukawa, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 12380-12381 (2006)



• "Synthesis of Brominated Directly Fused Diporphyrins through Gold(III)-Mediated Oxidation"
  A. K. Sahoo, Y. Nakamura, N. Aratani, K. S. Kim, S. B. Noh, H. Shinokubo, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett., 8, 4141-4144 (2006)



• "Intermolecular Rhodium-Catalyzed Carbometalation/Heck-Type Reaction in Water"
  T. Kurahashi, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45, 6336-6338 (2006)



• "Synthesis and Characterization of Facially Encumbered and Soluble Porphyrin Tapes"
  T. Ikeda, A. Tsuda, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Lett., 35, 946-947 (2006)



• "Spectroscopic and Theoretical Studies of Optically Active Porphyrin Dimers: A System Uninterpretable by Exciton Coupling Theory"
  A. Muranaka, Y. Asano, A. Tsuda, A. Osuka, and N. Kobayashi
  ChemPhysChem., 7, 1235-1240 (2006)



• "Comparative Photophysical Properties of Free-base, bis-Zn(Ⅱ), bis-Cu(Ⅱ), and bis-Co(Ⅱ) Doubly N-Confused Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  I. H. Kwon, T. K. Ahn, M.-C. Yoon, D. Y. Kim, M. K. Koh, D. Kim, H. Furuta, M. Suzuki, and A. Osuka
  J. Phys. Chem. B., 110, 11683-11690 (2006)



• "A Quadruply Azulene-fused Porphyrin with Intense Near IR Absorption and a Large Two-photon Absorption Cross Section"
  K. Kurotobi, K. S. Kim, S. B. Noh, D. Kim, A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45, 3944-3947 (2006)



• "Synthesis of Doubly Strapped meso-meso Linked Porphyrin Arrays and Triply Linked Conjugated Porphyrin Tapes"
  T. Ikeda, J. M. Lintuluoto, N. Aratani, Z. S. Yoon, D. kim, and A. Osuka
  Eur. J. Org. Chem., 14, 3193-3204 (2006)



• "High Fidelity Self-Sorting Assembling of meso-Cinchomeronimide Appended meso-meso Linked Zn(Ⅱ) Diporphyrins"
  T. Kamada, N. Aratani, T. Ikeda, N. Shibata, Y. Higuchi, A. Wakamiya, S. Yamaguchi, K. S. Kim, Z. S. Yoon, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 7670-7678 (2006)



• "Porphyrins Synthesis in Water Provides New Expanded Porphyrins with Direct Bipyrrole Linkages: Isolation and Characterization of Two Heptaphyrins"
  S. Hiroto, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 6568-6569 (2006)



• "A Theoretical Study on the Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of π-Conjugated Linear Porphyrin Arrays"
  Y. Matsuzaki, A. Nogami, A. Tsuda, A. Osuka, and K. Tanaka
  J. Phys. Chem. A., 110, 4888-4899 (2006)



• "meso-Trifluoromethyl-Substituted Expanded Porphyrins"
  S. Shimizu, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 12, 4909-4918 (2006)



• "Correlation of Fluorescence Anisotropy Decay with Molecular Size and Shape of Covalently and Noncovalently Bound Large Porphyrin Arrays"
  N. Aratani, Z. S. Yoon, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  J. Chinese Chem. Soc., 53, 41-46 (2006)



• "Excitation energy migration in a dodecameric porphyrin box"
  I-W. Hwang, Z. S. Yoon, J. Kim, T. Kamada, T. K. Ahn, N. Aratani, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 178, 130-139 (2006)



• "Synthesis of Pyrrolidine-Fused [34]- and [36]Octaphyrins via 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition"
  H. Hata, Y. Kamimura, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett., 8, 1169-1172 (2006)



• "A Directly Fused Tetrameric Porphyrin Sheet and Its Anomalous Electronic Properties That Arise from the Planar Cyclooctatetraene Core"
  Y. Nakamura, N. Aratani, H. Shinokubo, A. Takagi, T. Kawai, T. Matsumoto, Z. S. Yoon, D. Y. Kim, T. K. Ahn, D. Kim, A. Muranaka, N. Kobayashi, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 4119-4127 (2006)



• "Enhancement of External Quantum Efficiency of Red Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Devices with Facially Encumbered and Bulky Pt(II) Porphyrin Complexes"
  M. Ikai, F. Ishikawa, N. Aratani, A. Osuka, S. Kawabata, T. Kajioka, H. Takeuchi, H. Fujikawa, and Y. Taga
  Adv. Funct. Mat., 16, 515-519 (2006)



• "Regioselective Vicinal-Dichlorination of meso-Aryl [26]Hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  K. Youfu and A. Osuka
  Terahedron Lett., 47, 1381-1384 (2006)



• "Relationship between Two-Photon Absorption and the π-Conjugation Pathway in Porphyrin Arrays through Dihedral Angle Control"
  T. K. Ahn, K. S. Kim, D. Y. Kim, S. B. Noh, N. Aratani, C. Ikeda, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 1700-1704 (2006)



• "Giant Porphyrin Wheels with Large Electronic Coupling as Models of Light-Harvesting Photosynthetic Antenna"
  T. Hori, N. Aratani, A. Takagi, T. Matsumoto, T. Kawai, M.-C. Yoon, Z. S. Yoon, S. Cho, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 12, 1319-1327 (2006)



• "Oxidation of Hydroquinones with meso-Hexakispentafluorophenyl [26]hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1)"
  C. Maeda, H. Shinokubo, and A. Osuka
  Org. Biomol. Chem., 4, 200-202 (2006)



• "A New Entry to Doubly N-Confused [26]Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1) from Normal [26]Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1) through an Unprecendented Double Pyrrolic Rearrangement"
  M. Suzuki, M.-C. Yoon, D. Y. Kim, J. H. Kwon, H. Furuta, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 12, 1754-1759 (2006)



• "Tribenzosubporphines: Synthesis and Characterization"
  Y. Inokuma, J. H. Kwon, T. K. Ahn, M.-C. Yoon, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.(Vip Paper), 45, 961-964 (2006)

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.

2004

• "Doubly N-fused meso-Aryl Substituted Hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1) "
  M. Suzuki, R. Taniguchi, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun. 2004, 2682-2683.



• "Porphyrin Boxes Constructed by Homochiral Self-Sorting Assembly: Optical Separation, Exciton Coupling, and Efficient Excitation Energy Migration"
  I.-W. Hwang, T. Kamada, T. K. Ahn, D. M. Ko, T. Nakamura, A. Tsuda, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 16187-16198.



• "meso-Porphynyl-Substituted Porphyrin and Expanded Porphyrins"
  Y. Inokuma, and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 3663-3666.



• "Biscopper Complexes of meso-Aryl-Substituted Hexaphyrin: Gable Structures and Varying Antiferromagnetic Coupling"
  S. Shimizu, V. G. Anand, R. Taniguchi, K. Furukawa, T. Kato, T. Yokoyama, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 12280-12281.



• "Inverted N-Confused Porphyrin Dimer"
  T. Ishizuka, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 5077-5081.



• "1,4-Phenylene-bridged meso-meso Linked Diporphyrin Array"
  X. Peng, Y. Nakamura, N. Aratani, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 4981-4984.



• "Photochemistry of Doubly N-Confused Porphyrin Bonded to Non-Conventional High Oxidation State Ag(III) and Cu(III) Ions"
  F. M. Engelmann, I. Mayer, K. Araki, H. E. Toma, M. S. Baptista, H. Maeda, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  J. Photochem. Photobiol. A 2004, 163, 403-411.



• "A Dodecameric Porphyrin Wheel"
  X. Peng, N. Aratani, A. Takagi, T. Matsumoto, T. Kawai, I.-W. Hwang, T. K. Ahn, D. Kim, and A. Osuka,
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 4468-4469.



• "Thermal Splitting of Bis-Cu(II) Octaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1) into Two Cu(II) Porphyrins"
  Y. Tanaka, W. Hoshino, S. Shimizu, K.Youfu, N. Aratani, N. Maruyama, S. Fujita, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 3046 - 3047.



• "Synthesis of A₂B₂ Type Cis-Doubly N-Confused Porphyrins from N-confused Dipyrromethanes"
  H. Maeda, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  Tetrahedron, 2004, 60, 2427-2432.



• "Structures and Ligand Exchanges of N-Confused Porphyrin Dimer Complexes with Group 12 Metals"
  H. Furuta, T. Morimoto, and A. Osuka,
  Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 1618-1624.



• "Anion Binding Properties of N-Confused Porphyrins at the Peripheral Nitrogen"
  H. Maeda, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta,
  J. Inclu. Phenomena, 2004, 49, 33-36.



• "Adlayer Structure of and Electrochemical O₂ Reduction on Cobalt Porphine-Modified and Cobalt Octaethylporphyrin-Modified Au(III) in HClO₄"
  S. Yoshimoto, J. Inukai, A. Tada, T. Abe, T. Morimoto, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 108, 1948-1954.



• "Excitonic Coupling Strength and Coherent Length in the Singlet and Triplet Excited States in meso-meso Directly Linked Zn(II)porphyrin Arrays"
  J.-H. Ha, H. S. Cho, J. K. Song, D. Kim, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka
  ChemPhysChem, 2004, 5, 57-67.

2003

• "Trans-Doubly N-Confused Porphyrins: Cu(III) Complexation and Formation of Rod-like Hydrogen Bonding Networks",
  H. Maeda, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta,
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 15690-15691.



• "Ultrafast Charge Transfer and Radiationless Relaxation from Higher Excited State (S2) of Directly Linked Zn-Porphyrin (ZP)-Acceptor Dyads: Investigations into Fundamental Problems of Exciplex Ehemistry",
  N. Mataga, S. Taniguchi, H. Chosrowjan, A. Osuka, and N. Yoshida,
  Chem. Phys., 2003, 295, 215-228.



• "STM Images of Individual Porphyrin Hexamers; meso-meso Singly Linked Orthogonal Hexamer and meso-meso, β-β, β-β Triply-linked Planar Hexamer on Cu(100) Surface",
  A. Takagi, Y. Yanagawa, A. Tsuda, N. Aratani, T. Matsumoto, A. Osuka, and T. Kawai,
  Chem. Commun., 2003,2986-2987.



• "Photophysical Properties of a 3-Dimensional Zn(II) Porphyrin Box",
  I.-W. Hwang, H. S. Cho, D. H. Jeong, D. Kim, A. Tsuda, T. Nakamura, and A. Osuka,
  J. Phys. Chem. B, 2003, 109, 9977-9988.



• "Improved Synthesis of meso-Aryl Substituted [26]Hexaphyrins",
  M. Suzuki and A. Osuka,
  Org. Lett., 2003, 5, 3943-3946.



• "Control of Cu(II) and Cu(III) States in N-Confused Porphyrin by Protonation/Deprotonation at the Peripheral Nitrogen",
  H. Maeda, Y. Ishikawa, T. Matsuda, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta,
  J. Am. Chem. Soc.,2003, 125, 11822-11823.



• "Electrical Conduction through Linear Porphyrin Arrays",
  D. H. Yoon, S. B. Lee, K.-H. Yoo, J. Kim, J. K. Lim, N. Aratani, A. Tsuda, A. Osuka, and D. Kim,
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 11062-11064.



• "Modulation of Axial Coordination in N-Confused Porphyrin-Antimony(V) Dibromide Complex by Proton ",
  J.-C. Liu, T. Ishizuka, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta,
  Chem. Commun., 2003, 1908-1909.



• "Electrical Conduction through Linear Porphyrin Arrays"
  D. H. Yoon, S. B. Lee, K.-H. Yoo, J. Kim, J. K. Lim, N. Aratani, A. Tsuda, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 11062-11064.



• "Resonance Raman Spectroscopic Study of Fused Multiporphyrin Linear Arrays"
  D. H. Jeong, S. M. Jang, D. Kim, Y. Matsuzaki, K. Tanaka, A. Tsuda, T. Nakamura, and A. Osuka
  J. Chem. Phys., 2003, 119, 5237- 5252 .



• "Oxidative Direct Coupling of Metalloporphyrins"
  Y. Nakamura, N. Aratani, A. Tsuda, A. Osuka, K. Furukawa, and T. Kato
  J. Por. Phthal., 2003, 7, 264-269 .



• "Hydrogen Bonding 1D Chain Network of Cis-Doubly N-Confused Porphyrins"
  H. Maeda, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  Supramol. Chem., 2003, 15 447-450.



• "Modulation of Axial Coordination in N-Confused Porphyrin-antimony(V) Dibromide Complex by Proton "
  J.-C. Liu, T. Ishizuka, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  Chem. Commun., 2003, 1908-1909 .



• "Efficient Excitation Energy Transfer in Long meso-meso Linked Zn(II) Porphyrin Arrays Bearing a 5,15-Bisphenylethynylated Zn(II) Porphyrin Acceptor"
  N. Aratani, H. S. Cho T. K. Ahn, S. Cho, D. Kim, H. Sumi, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 9668-9681 .



• "Observation of Quantum Coherence for Recurrence Motion of Exciton in Anthracene Dimers in Solution", I. Yamazaki, N. Aratani, S. Akimoto, T. Yamazaki, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 7192-7193 .



• "Dihedral-angle Modulation of meso-meso Linked Zn(II) Diporphyrin through Diamine Coordination and Its Application to Reversible Switching of Excitation Energy Transfer"
  H. Shinmori, T. K. Ahn, H. S. Cho, S. K. Kim, D. Kim, N. Yoshida, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 2754-2758 .



• "Synthesis of Directly Linked Zinc[II] Porphyrin-Imide Dyads and Energy Gap Dependence of Intramolecular Electron Transfer Reactions"
  N. Yoshida, T. Ishizuka, K. Youfu, M. Murakami, H. Miyasaka, T. Okada, Y. Nagata, A. Itaya, H. S. Cho, D. Kim, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Euro. J. 2003, 9, 2854-2866 .



• "Metal-Dependent Regioselective Oxidative Coupling of 5,10,15-Triarylporphyrins with DDQ-Sc(OTf)3 and Formation of an Oxo-quinoidal Porphyrin"
  M. Kamo, A. Tsuda, Y. Nakamura, N. Aratani, K. Furukawa, T. Kato, and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 2079-2082 .



• "Ultrafast Charge Separation and Radiationless Realxation Processes from Higher Excited Electronic States of Directly Linked Porphyrin-Acceptor Dyads"
  N. Mataga, S. Taniguchi, H. Chosrowjan, A. Osuka, and Y. Yoshida
  Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 2003, 2, 493-500 .



• "2-Allenyl-2H-benzotrialzole"
  H. Maeda, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  Acta Cryst. 2003, C59, 338-339 .



• "Regioselective Nucleophilic Substitution Reaction of meso-Hexakis (pentafluorophenyl) Substituted [26]Hexaphyrin"
  M. Suzuki, S. Shimizu, J.-Y. Shin, and A. Osuka
  Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 4597-4601 .



• "Facile Formation of N-confused Porphyrin Dimers by Pt(II) Coordination to Outer-nitrogen"
  H. Furuta, K. Youfu, H. Maeda, A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 2186-2188 .



• "Comparative Studies on Eenergy Relaxation Dynamics of Directly Linked Zn(II) Porphyrin Dimers with Different Dihedral Angles"
  H. S. Cho, J. K. Song, J.-H. Ha, S. Cho, D. Kim, Y. Yoshida, and A. Osuka
  J. Phys. Chem. A 2003, 107, 1897-1903 .



• "Synthesis, Structure, and Crystal Packing of N-Confused 5,20-Diphenylporphyrin and Ag(III)Complex"
  H. Furuta, T. Morimoto, and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett., 2003, 5, 1427-1430.



• "Excitation Energy Transport Processes of Porphyrin Monomer, Dimer, Cyclic Trimer and Hexamer Probed by Ultrafast Fluorescent Anisotropy Decay "
  H. S. Cho, H. Rhee, J. K. Song, C.-K. Min, M. Takase, N. Aratani, S. Cho, A. Osuka, T. Joo, and D. Kim,
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 5849-5860.



• "Synthesis of meso-β Doubly-linked Porphyrin Tapes"
  A. Tsuda, Y. Nakamura, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun., 2003, 1096-1097.



• "N-Confused Porphyrin Bearing meso-Perfluorophenyl Groups: A Potential Agent that Forms Stable Square planar Complexes with Cu(II) and Ag(III)"
  H. Maeda, A. Osuka, Y. Ishikawa, I. Aritome, Y. Hisaeda, and H. Furuta
  Org. Lett., 2003, 5, 1293-1296.



• "Ring Size Selective Synthesis of meso-Aryl Expanded Porphyrins"
  R. Taniguchi, S. Shimizu, M. Suzuki, J. Shin, H. Furuta, and A. Osuka
  Tetrahedron Lett., 2003, 44, 2505-2507.



• "Doubly N-Confused Porphyrins as Efficient Sensitizers for Singlet Oxygen Generation"
  K. Araki, F. M. Engekmann, I. Mayer, H. E. Toma, M. S. Baptista, H. Maeda, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  Chem. Lett., 2003, 244-245.



• "Synthesis and Photoreaction of a Porphyrin-Co(III)-complex Linked Molecule"
  T. Nagata, Y. Kikuzawa, and A. Osuka
  Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2003, 342, 139-144.



• "Doubly N-Confused Hexaphyrin: A Novel Aromatic Expanded Porphyrin that Complexes Bis-metals in the Core"
  A. Srinivasan, T. Ishizuka, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  J. Am. Chem. Soc 2003, 125, 878-879.



• "Zinc Complex of N-Confused Calyx[4]phyrin"
  H. Furuta, T. Ishizuka, and Atsuhiro Osuka
  Inorg. Chem. Commun., 2003, 6, 398-401.



• "Crystal Structures of Palladium(II) and Copper(II) Complexes of meso-Phenyl Tripyrridone"
  H. Furuta, H. Maeda, and Atsuhiro Osuka
  Inorg. Chem. Commun., 2003, 6, 162-164.



• "Perfluorinated meso-Aryl Expanded Porphyrins"
  S. Shimizu, J. -Y. Shin, H. Furuta, R. Ismael, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2003, 42, 78-82.



• "Fine Tuning of Photophysical Properties of meso-meso Linked Zn(II)-Diporphyrins by Dihedral Angle Control"
  N. Yoshida, D. H. Jeong, H. S. Cho, D. Kim, Y. Matsuzaki, A. Nogami, K. Tanaka, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J., 2003, 9, 58-75.

2002

• "A Self-Assembled Porphyrin Box from meso-meso-Linked Bis{5-p-pyridyl-15-(3,5-di-octyloxyphenyl)porphyinato zinc(II)}"
  A. Tsuda, T, Nakamura, S. Sakamoto, K, Yamaguchi, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2002, 41, 2817-2821.



• "Efficient Synthesis of Benzene-centered Cyclic Porphyrin Hexamers"
  M. Takase, R. Ismael, R. Murakami, M. Ikeda, D. Kim, H. Shinmori, H. Furuta, and A. Osuka
  Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 5157-5159.



• "Effective Face-to-face Dimerization of A Crown Ether Appended N-Confused Porphyrin"
  H. Shinmori, H. Furuta, and A. Osuka
  Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 4881-4884.



• "Fluorescence from the Highly Excited States and Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Directly Linked Porphyrin Arrays"
  N. W. Song, H. S. Cho, M. -C. Yoon, S. C. Jeoung, N. Yoshida, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2002, 75, 1023-1029.



• "Flexible Inner and Outer Coordination of Zn(II) N-Confused Porphyrin Complex"
  H. Furuta, T. Ishizuka, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 5622-5623.



• "Energy relaxation dynamics of excited triplet states of directly linked Zn(II)porphyrin arrays "
  N. W. Song, H. S. Cho, M.-C. Yoon, N. Aratani, A. Osuka, and D. Kim
  Bull. Korean Chem. Soc. 2002, 23, 271-276.



• "Resonance Raman Spectroscopic Investigation of Directly Linked Zinc(II) Porphyrin Linear Arrays "
  D. H. Jeong, M. -C. Yoon, S. M. Jang, D. Kim, D. W. Cho, N. Yoshida, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka
  J. Phys. Chem. A 2002, 106, 2359-2368.



• "Control of Face-to-face and Extended Aggregations of Crown Ether Appended Metalloporphyrins"
  H. Shinmori, Y. Yasuda, and A. Osuka
  Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2002, 1197-1205.



• "Regioselective Oxidative Liberation of Aryl-Substituted Tripyrrinone Metal Complexes from N-Confused Porphyrin"
  H. Furuta, H. Maeda, and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 181-184.

2001

• "meso-meso Linked Hybrid Porphyrin Arrays by Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reaction"
  N. Aratani and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 4213-4216.



• "First Unequivocal Observation of the Whole Bell-Shaped Energy Gap Law in Intramolecular Charge Separation from S₂ Excited State of Directly Linked Porphyrin-Imide Dyads and Its Solvent-Polarity Dependencies"
  N. Mataga, H. Chosrowjan, Y. Shibata, N. Yoshida, A. Osuka, T. Kikuzawa, and T. Okada
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 12422-12423.



• "Theoretical Study of Stability, Structures, and Aromaticity of Multiply N-Confused Porphyrins"
  H. Furuta, H. Maeda, and A. Osuka
  J. Org. Chem. 2001, 66, 8563-8572.



• "Directly linked dehydropurpurin-porphyrin dyads from Ag(I)-promoted oxidation of meso-phenylethynyl substituted zinc(II) porphyrins"
  A. Nakano, N. Aratani, H. Furuta, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun. 2001, 1920-1921.



• "Syntheses, Structural Characterizations, and Optical and Electrochemical Properties of Directly Fused Diporphyrins "
  A. Tsuda, H. Furuta, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 10304-10321.



• "The First Bis-Rh(I) Metal Complex of N-Confused Porphyrin"
  A. Srinivasan, H. Furuta, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun. 2001, 1666-1667.



• "Fully Conjugated Porphyrin Tapes with Electronic Absorption Bands that Reach into Infrared"
  A. Tsuda and A. Osuka
  Science 2001, 293, 79-82.
  Articles in Japanese Newspapers


"Meso-Aryl Substituted Expanded Porphyrins"
J. -Y. Shin, H. Furuta, K. Yoza, S. Igarashi, and A. Osuka
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 7190-7191.


• "Oxyindolophyrin: A Novel Fluoride Receptor Derived from N-Confused Corrole Isomer"
  H. Furuta, H. Maeda, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 6435-6436.



• "NH Tautomerism of N-Confused Porphyrin"
  H. Furuta, T. Ishizuka, A. Osuka, H. Dejima, H. Nakagawa, and Y. Ishikawa
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 6207-6208.



• "Modified Windmill Porphyrin Arrays: Coupled Light-Harvesting and Charge Separation, Conformational Relaxation, and S₂-S₂ Energy Transfer"
  A. Nakano, A. Osuka, T. Yamazaki, Y. Nishimura, S. Akimoto, I. Yamazaki, A. Itaya, M. Murakami, and H. Miyasaka
  Chem. Eur. J. 2001, 7, 3134-3135.



• "Intramolecular Energy Transfer in S₁- and S₂-states of Porphyrin Trimers"
  A. Nakano, Y. Yasuda, T. Yamazaki, S. Akimoto, I. Yamazaki, H. Miyasaka, A. Itaya, M. Murakami, and A. Osuka
  J. Phys. Chem. A 2001, 105, 4822-4833.



• "Metal Complexes of N-Confused Calix[4]phyrin Derivative-The First X-ray Structure of Organometallic Compound of Divalent Copper"
  H. Furuta, T. Ishizuka, A. Osuka, Y. Uwatoko, and Y. Ishikawa
  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2001, 40, 2323-2325.



• "Transient Absorption Anisotropy Study of Ultrafast Energy Transfer in Porphyrin Monomer, Its Direct meso-meso Coupled Dimer and Trimer"
  C.-K. Min, T. Joo, M.-C. Yoon, C. M. Kim, Y. N. Hwang, D. Kim, N. Aratani, N. Yoshida, and A. Osuka
  J. Chem. Phys. 2001, 114, 6750-6758.



• "Energy Transfer Processes in Phenylene- and Directly-linked Porphyrin Dimers"
  H. S. Cho, Y. H. Kim, Y. R. Kim, S. C. Jeoung, D. Kim, S. K. Kim, N. Aratani, H. Shinmori, and A. Osuka
  J. Phys. Chem. A 2001, 105, 4200-4210.



• "Synthesis and Photoisomerization of Dithienylethene-Bridged Diporphyrin"
  A. Osuka, D. Fujikane, H. Shinmori, S. Kobatake, and M. Irie
  J. Org. Chem. 2001, 66, 3913-3923.



• "Supramolecular Assembly of Light Harvesting Porphyrin Hexamer"
  H. Shinmori, T. Kajiwara, and A. Osuka
  Tetrahedron Lett. 2001, 42, 3617-3620.



• "Acid-Base and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of Doubly N-Confused Porphyrins"
  K. Araki, H. Winnischofer, H. Toma, H. Maeda, A. Osuka, and H. Furuta
  Inorg. Chem. 2001, 40, 2020-2025.



• "Photophysical Properties of meso,meso-linked Porphyrin Arrays: Steady-state and Time-resolved Fluorescence Polarization"
  Y. H. Kim, H. S. Cho, D. Kim, S. K. Kim, N. Yoshida, and A. Osuka
  Synth. Metal 2001, 117, 183-187.



• "Photoexcitation of Covalently Bridged Zinc Porphyrin Oligomers: Frenkel versus Wannier-Mott type Excitons"
  J. J. Piet, P. N. Taylor, B. R. Wegewijs, H. L. Anderson, A. Osuka, and J. M. Warman
  J. Phys. Chem. B 2001, 105, 97-104.



• "Photophysical Properties of Directly Linked Zinc(II)porphyrin Linear Arrays Investigated by Time-resolved Laser Spectroscopic Methods"
  Y. H. Kim, D. H. Jeong, H. S. Cho, J. S. Han, N. W. Song, S. C. Jeoung, D. Kim, S. K. Kim, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 76-86.



• "N-Fused Pentaphyrin"
  J.-Y. Shin, H, Furuta, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2001, 40, 619-621.

2000

• "Coordination Control of Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Boronate-bridged Zinc Porphyrin—Diimide Molecules"
  H. Shiratori, T. Ohno, K. Nozaki, I. Yamazaki, Y. Nishimura, and A. Osuka
  J. Org. Chem. 2000, 65, 8747-8757.



• "N-Confused Double-Decker Porphyrins"
  H. Furuta, N. Kubo, H. Maeda, T. Ishizuka, A. Osuka, H. Nanami, and T. Ogawa
  Inorg. Chem. 2000, 39, 5424-5425.



• "First Optical Resolution of meso-meso Linked Diporphyrin"
  N. Yoshida and A. Osuka
  Tetrahedron Lett. 2000, 41, 9281-9287.



• "Extended Molecular Assembly of Crown Ether Appended meso-meso Coupled Diporphyrin"
  H. Shinmori and A. Osuka
  Tetrahedron Lett. 2000, 41, 8527-8531.



• "Control of Dihedral Angle of meso-meso Linked Diporphyrins by Introducing Dioxymethylene Straps of Various Length"
  N. Yoshida and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett. 2000, 2, 2963-2966.



• "Three-dimensionally Arranged Windmill and Grid Porphyrin Arrays by Ag(I)-Promoted meso-meso Block Oligomerization"
  A. Nakano, T. Yamazaki, Y. Nishimura, S. Akimoto, I. Yamazaki, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Eur. J 2000, 6, 3254-3271.



• "Resonance Raman Characterization of meso,meso-Linked Porphyrin Arrays"
  A. A. Bhuiyan, J. Seth, N. Yoshida, A. Osuka, and D. F. Bocian
  J. Phys. Chem. 2000, 104, 10757-10764.



• "Inner C-Arylation of a Doubly N-Confused Porphyrin-Pd Complex in Toluene— the Possibility of a Pd³⁺ Intermediate"
  H. Furuta, H. Maeda, A. Osuka, M. Yasutake, T. Shinmyozu, and Y. Ishikawa
  Chem. Commun. 2000,1143-1144.



• "meso-meso-Linked Porphyrin Dimer as a Novel Scaffold for the Selective Binding of Oligosaccharide"
  M. Ikeda, S. Shinkai, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun. 2000, 1047-1048.



• "Stability and Structure of Doubly N-Confused Porphyrins"
  H. Furuta, H. Maeda, and A. Osuka
  J. Org. Chem. 2000, 65, 4222-4226.



• "N-Fused Porphyrin: A New Tetrapyrrolic Porphyrinoid with a Fused Tripentacyclic Ring"
  H. Furuta, T. Ishizuka, A. Osuka, and T. Ogawa
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 5748-5757.



• "Completely Fused Diporphyrins and Triporphyrin"
  A. Tsuda, H. Furuta, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 2549-2552.



• "Internal Conversion and Vibronic Relaxation from Higher Excited Electronic State of Porphyrins: Femtosecond Fluorescence Dynamics Studies"
  N. Mataga, Y. Shibata, H. Chosrowjan, N. Yoshida, and A. Osuka
  J. Phys. Chem., B 2000, 104, 4001-4004.



• "Coordination Control of Intramolecular Energy Transfer in Boronate-bridged Naphthalene-Aryl Ketone Molecule"
  H. Shiratori, K. Nozaki, T. Ohno, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Phys. Lett. 2000, 320, 631-638.



• "Ultrafast Energy Relaxation Dynamics of Directly Linked Porphyrin Arrays"
  H. S. Cho, N. W. Song, Y. H. Kim, S. J. Hahn, D. Kim, S. K. Kim, N. Yoshida, and A. Osuka
  J. Phys. Chem., B 2000, 104, 3287-3298.



• "Extremely Long Discrete meso-meso Coupled Porphyrin Arrays"
  N. Aratani, A. Osuka, Y. H. Kim, D. H. Jeong, and D. Kim
  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 1458-1462.



• "Excitonic Interactions in the Singlet and Triplet Excited States of Covalently-Linked Zinc Porphyrin Dimers"
  J. J. Piet, P. N. Taylor, H. L. Anderson, A. Osuka, and J. M. Warman
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 1749-1757.



• "Doubly N-Confused Porphyrin: A New Complexing Agent Capable of Stabilizing Higher Oxidation States"
  H. Furuta, H. Maeda, and A. Osuka
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 803-807.



• "Doubly meso-b Linked Diporphyrins from Oxidation of 5,10,15-Triaryl-Substituted Ni^II- and Pd^II-Porphyrins"
  A. Tsuda, A. Nakano, H. Furuta, H. Yamochi, and A. Osuka
  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 558-561.



• "Poly(zinc(II)-5,15-porphyrinylene) from Silver(I)-promoted Oxidation of Zinc(II)-5,15-Diarylporphyrins"
  N. Yoshida, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun. 2000, 197-198.



• "First Synthesis of Tetrapyrrolylporphyrin"
  H. Furuta, H. Maeda, T. Furuta, and A. Osuka
  Org. Lett. 2000, 2, 187-189.



• "Energy Gap Dependence of Photoinduced Charge Separation and Subsequent Charge Recombination in 1,4-Phenylene-Bridged Zinc-Free-Base Hybrid Porphyrins"
  A. Osuka, G. Noya, S. Taniguchi, T. Okada, Y. Nishimura, I. Yamazaki, and N. Mataga
  Chem. Eur. J. 2000, 6, 33-46.

1999

• "Ultrafast Excitation Transfer and Relaxation in Linear and Crossed-linear Arrays of Porphyrins"
  S. Akimoto, T. Yamazaki, I. Yamazaki, A. Nakano, and A. Osuka
  Pure Appl. Chem. 1999, 71, 2107-2115.



• "Photoinduced Charge Transfer along a meso,meso Linked Porphyrin Array"
  N. Ohta, Y. Iwaki, T. Ito, I. Yamazaki, and A. Osuka
  J. Phys. Chem. B 1999, 103, 11242-11245.



• "Spatially Resolved Thermalization Dynamics of Electronically Photoexcited Azulene Probed by a Molecular Integrated Thermometer"
  T. Okazaki, N. Hirota, T. Nagata, A. Osuka, and M. Terazima
  J. Phys. Chem. A 1999, 103, 9591-9600.



• "Evidence for p-p Interactions in the S₁ State of Zinc Porphyrin Dimers Revealed by Picosecond Time-resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy"
  S. Nakashima, S. Taniguchi, T. Okada, A. Osuka, Y. Mizutani, and T. Kitagawa
  J. Phys. Chem. A 1999, 103, 9184-9189.



• "Orientation Effects on Excited-State Dynamics of Zinc-porphyrin Free base porphyrin Pyromellitimide Triads"
  A. Osuka, J.-Y. Shin, R. Yoneshima, H. Shiratori, T. Ohno, K. Nozaki, Y. Nishimura, I. Yamazaki, S. Taniguchi, T. Shimizu, and T. Okada
  J. Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 1999, 3, 729-741.



• "Photophysical Characteristics of Two Model Antenna Systems: a Fucoxanthin pyropheophorbide Dyad and Its Peridinine Analogue"
  A. Osuka, T. Kume, G. W. Haggquist, T. Javorfi, J. C. Lima, E. Melo, and K. R. Naqvi
  Chem. Phys. Lett. 1999, 313, 499-504.



• "Change of Electron-transfer Path-Selectivity in a Triad by F^--Coordination at a Boronate-ester Bridge"
  H. Shiratori, T. Ohno, K. Nozaki, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Commun. 1999, 2181-2182.
  
• "Excitation Relaxation of Zinc and Free-base Porphyrin Probed by Femtosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy"
  S. Akimoto, T. Yamazaki, I. Yamazaki, and A. Osuka
  Chem. Phys. Lett. 1999, 309, 177-182.



• "High Temporal and Spatially Resolved Thermal Energy Detection After Nonradiative Transition in Solution Using a Molecular heater-Molecular Thermometer Intergrated System"
  T. Okazaki, N. Hirota, T. Nagata, A. Osuka, and M. Terazima
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 5079-5080.



• "Highly Efficient Energy Dissipation by a Carotenoid in Face-to-Face Porphyrin—Carotenoid Dyads"
  S. Shinoda, H. Tsukube, Y. Nishimura, I. Yamazaki, and A. Osuka
  J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 3757-3762.



• "Enhanced Singlet Energy Transfer in bis(phenylethynyl)-phenylene-bridged 5,10,15,20-Tetraaryl Zinc—Free Base Hybrid Diporphyrins"
  A. Osuka, M. Ikeda, H. Shiratori, Y. Nishimura, and I. Yamazaki
  J. Chem. Soc., Perkin 2 1999, 1019-1025.



• "N-Fused Porphyrin from N-Confused Porphyrin"
  H. Furuta, T. Ishizuka, A. Osuka, and T. Ogawa
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 2945-2946.



• "Ultrafast Energy Relaxation and Excitation Delocalization in Excited States of Zinc Porphyrin Dimers and Trimers"
  I. Yamazaki, S. Akimoto, T., Yamazaki, H. Shiratori, and A. Osuka
  Acta Phys. Polon. A 1999, 95, 105-120.



• "Completely Regioselective Synthesis of Directly Linked meso-meso and meso-b Porphyrin Dimers by One Pot Electrochemical Oxidation of Metalloporphyrins"
  T. Ogawa, Y. Nishimoto, N. Yoshida, N. Ono and A. Osuka
  Angew Chem., Int. Ed. 1999, 38, 176-179.