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  1. How sugars change the speed of light-induced reactions to help build better sensors

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, May 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  2. How Acetate and Phosphate Affect Excited-State Proton Transfer in Fluoranthene-Urea Systems

    Article • Dyes and Pigments, August 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  3. Relaxation process of photoexcited berberine via aggregation and dissociation state-dependent intramolecular electron transfer

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  4. Substituent effects of halogens on ESPT reactions

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  5. Intermolecular proton transfer reaction of urea and β-CD

    Article • Journal of Molecular Liquids, March 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  6. π-Conjugation effects on ESPT reactions

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  7. Recognition of specific monosaccharides by ESPT reactions

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry B, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  8. Protein Photodamaging Activity and Photocytotoxic Effect of an Axial-Connecting Phosphorus(V)porphyrin Trimer

    Article • Chemical Research in Toxicology, September 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  9. A Theoretical Study on Rate Constants of Excited State Proton Transfer Reaction in Anthracene-Urea Derivatives

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, March 2023, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  10. Excited-state proton transfer reaction of a pyrenylurea derivative in the ionic liquid

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, March 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  11. Electron-withdrawing group effects on Coumarin–urea fluorescence

    Article • Dyes and Pigments, January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  12. Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy with Multivariate Analysis on Photoinduced Proton Transfer in Aromatic Urea–Acetate Anion Complexes

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, January 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  13. Attribution of a tautomeric fluoranthene-urea compound by addition of DBU

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  14. Opposite substituent effects in the ground and excited states on the acidity of N–H fragments involved in proton transfer reaction in aromatic urea compounds

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  15. Effect of Moderate Hydrogen Bonding on Tautomer Formation via Excited-State Intermolecular Proton-Transfer Reactions in an Aromatic Urea Compound with a Steric Base

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, August 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  16. A Dual Emissive Coumarin–urea Derivative with an Electron‐withdrawing Substituent in the Presence of Acetate Anion

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, October 2019, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  17. Relaxation process of S2 excited zinc porphyrin through interaction with a directly connected phenanthryl group

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, October 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  18. Photochemical generation of the 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPO) radical from caged nitroxides by near-infrared two-photon irradiation and its cytocidal effect on lung cancer cells

    Article • Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, April 2019, Beilstein Institut

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  19. Drastic modulation of tautomer fluorescence of Pyrene-Urea compounds

    Article • Chemistry Letters, April 2018, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  20. The modulation of cis-to-trans Photoisomerization of a Stilbene-urea compound

    Article • Chemistry Letters, April 2018, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  21. Solvent effects on the emissive tautomer of aromatic-urea compounds

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  22. Multi-molecular emission of a cationic Pt(ii) complex through hydrogen bonding interactions

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  23. Modulation of the Emission Mode of a Pt(II) Complex via Intermolecular Interactions

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, July 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  24. Fluorescence Sensor with A New ON1-OFF-ON2 Switching of An Anthracene-diurea Compound

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, June 2017, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  25. Excited-state intermolecular proton transfer dependent on the substitution pattern of anthracene–diurea compounds involved in fluorescent ON1–OFF–ON2 response by the addition of acetate ions

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  26. Control of the intermolecular photodimerization of anthracene derivatives by hydrogen bonding of urea groups in dilute solution

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  27. Aggregated Excimer Formation through Hydrogen Bonding in a Pyrene–Urea Derivative

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, August 2015, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  28. Photoisomerization and Photoinduced Intramolecular Hydrogen Atom Transfer of 2-[2-(2-Pyrrolyl)ethenyl]pyridine Derivatives

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, July 2015, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  29. Determination of Singlet Oxygen and Electron Transfer Mediated Mechanisms of Photosensitized Protein Damage by Phosphorus(V)porphyrins

    Article • Chemical Research in Toxicology, February 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  30. Producing a dual-fluorescent molecule by tuning the energetics of excited-state intramolecular proton transfer

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  31. Delayed Fluorescence Behaviors of Aminopyridine Oligomers: Azacalix[n](2,6)pyridines (n= 3 and 4) and Their Linear Analog

    Article • Chemistry Letters, April 2014, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  32. Red/Near-Infrared Luminescence Tuning of Group-14 Element Complexes of Dipyrrins Based on a Central Atom

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, February 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  33. Singlet Oxygen Generating Activity of an Electron Donor Connecting Porphyrin Photosensitizer Can Be Controlled by DNA

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, October 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  34. Photodynamics of an excited triplet state in the presence of molecular oxygen cluster

    Article • Rapid Communication in Photoscience, September 2013, Korean Society of Photoscience

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  35. Photosensitized protein damage by dimethoxyphosphorus(V) tetraphenylporphyrin

    Article • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  36. Photochemistry of arylacetylenyl-substituted stilbenes

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  37. Photosensitized damage of protein by fluorinated diethoxyphosphorus(V)porphyrin

    Article • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, January 2013, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  38. Kinetic analysis of photoinduced reactions in hydrogen-bonded complexes of anthracene-urea with anions

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  39. Time-resolved fluorescence of α,ω-di(1-naphthyl)oligosilanes and 1-naphthyloligosilanes: intramolecular excimer formation and charge-transfer interactions

    Article • Research on Chemical Intermediates, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  40. Fluorescence Turn-On Sensing of Anions Based on Disassembly Process of Urea-Functionalized Poly(phenylenebutadiynylene) Aggregates

    Article • Macromolecules, May 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  41. Dynamics of Singlet Oxygen Generation by DNA-Binding Photosensitizers

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  42. Extremely efficient photoisomerization of water-soluble diphenylbutadiene dendrimers

    Article • Dyes and Pigments, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  43. Two-step Changes in Luminescence Color of Pt(II) Complex Bearing an Amide Moiety by Mechano- and Vapochromism

    Article • Chemistry Letters, January 2012, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  44. Unusually efficient trans-to-cis photoisomerization of diphenylbutadiene dendrimers in water

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  45. Extremely efficient and long lifetime fluorescence of cis-stilbene contained in a rigid dendrimer

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  46. Observation of anthracene excimer fluorescence at very low concentrations utilizing dendritic structures

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  47. Kinetics of Hydrogen Bonding between Anthracene Urea Derivatives and Anions in the Excited State

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, July 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  48. Control of Singlet Oxygen Generation Photosensitized by meso-Anthrylporphyrin through Interaction with DNA

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, May 2011, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  49. Energy Transfer andtrans–cisIsomerization in Dendrimer Aggregates

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, April 2011, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  50. Kinetic studies of emissive guanine derivatives bearing anthracene moiety

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, February 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  51. Photophysics and photochemistry of positionally isomeric 1,2-dianthryltetramethyldisilanes: Investigation of anthryl–anthryl and anthryl–SiSi interactions

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, February 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  52. Development of a quinoxaline-based fluorescent probe for quantitative estimation of protein binding site polarity

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  53. Singlet molecular oxygen generation by water-soluble phthalocyanine dendrimers with different aggregation behavior

    Article • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, January 2011, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  54. Photochemistry of Linear-Shaped Phenylacetylenyl- and (Phenylacetylenyl)phenylacetylenyl-Substituted Aromatic Enediynes

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, October 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  55. Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer of Naphthalene-Fused 2-(2′-Hydroxyaryl)benzazole Family

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, February 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  56. Stilbene-cored poly(glutamate) dendrimers

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  57. Synthesis and Photochemical Characteristics of Amphiphilic Enediyne Dendrimers

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, June 2009, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  58. Drastic solvent effect on thermal back reaction of spiroperimidine photochromic compounds

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, June 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  59. Photochemical Properties of 3,3′-Disubstituted Stilbene Dendrimers

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, May 2009, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  60. Fluorescence Characteristics of Naphthalene Dendrimers at Low Concentration in Aqueous Solution

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, February 2009, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  61. Photoinduced Proton Transfer in 2-(2′-Hydroxynaphthalenyl)benzoxazole: Observation of Fluorescence with a Small Stokes Shift Induced by Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, January 2009, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  62. High Binding Affinity of DABCO with Porphyrin in a Porphyrin-cis-Stilbene-Porphyrin Triad

    Article • Heterocycles, January 2009, Japan Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  63. Photochemical and Photophysical Characteristics in the Excited State Properties of Methoxy-substituted Enediynes

    Article • Chemistry Letters, February 2008, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  64. Cyclodextrin Nanocavity Caging Effect on Electronic Dephasing

    Article • ChemPhysChem, February 2008, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  65. Synthesis and Photoisomerization of Enediyne-Type Dendrimers with Benzyl Ether Dendrons

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, October 2007, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  66. Photochemical Behavior of an Anthracene–Urea Derivative Interacting with Anions

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, April 2007, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  67. Control of photoisomerization of CC double bond by hydrogen bonding and photoinduced hydrogen atom transfer

    Article • Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  68. The first observation of the effect of dendritic structure to produce the triplet excited state of the core stilbene by dendron excitation

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  69. Time-resolved Fluorescence Decay Analysis of Photoresist Film by GaN LD Pumped Single-Photon Counting Method

    Article • Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology, January 2007, Technical Association of Photopolymers, Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  70. Exciplex Formation of Intermolecularly Hydrogen-Bonded System between Anthracene andN,N-Dimethylaniline Derivatives

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, December 2006, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  71. Solvent Effect on the Photochemical Properties of Symmetrically Substitutedtrans-3,3‘,5,5‘-Tetramethoxystilbene

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, November 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  72. Synthesis and Photochemical Properties of a New Water-Soluble Coumarin, Designed as a Chromophore for Highly Water-Soluble and Photolabile Protecting Group

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, November 2006, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  73. The relaxation dynamics of the excited state of stilbene dendrimers substituted with phenylacetylene groups

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, March 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  74. Recognition of substituted cytosine derivatives by the base pairing with guanine connected to pyrene

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, May 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  75. Study on Oxygen Quenching Processes of the Excited State Dendrimer Molecules

    Article • Chemistry Letters, May 2005, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Atsuya Momotake

  76. Vectorial Electron Relay at ITO Electrodes Modified with Self-Assembled Monolayers of Ferrocene–Porphyrin–Fullerene Triads and Porphyrin–Fullerene Dyads for Molecular Photovoltaic Devices

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, October 2004, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  77. Substituent Effects of Porphyrin Monolayers on the Structure and Photoelectrochemical Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Porphyrin on Indium−Tin Oxide Electrode

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, April 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  78. Porphyrin and fullerene-based artificial photosynthetic materials for photovoltaics

    Article • Thin Solid Films, March 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  79. Time-resolved fluorescence of α-(9-anthryl)-ω-(1-naphthyl)-oligosilanes: intramolecular electronic energy and charge transfer through π–π and σ–π interactions

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, March 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  80. Structure and Photophysical Properties of Porphyrin-Modified Metal Nanoclusters with Different Chain Lengths

    Article • Langmuir, January 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Ph.D. Yukiyasu Kashiwagi

  81. Coherent Control of Oscillatory Excitation Transfer in Dithia-1,5[3,3]anthracenophane by a Phase-Locked Femtosecond Pulse Pair

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, November 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  82. π−π and σ−π Interactions in α,ω-Di-(9-anthryl) and Di-(1-naphthyl) Oligosilanes Studied by Time-Resolved Fluorescence in Solution

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, November 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  83. Photovoltaic Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Porphyrins and Porphyrin−Fullerene Dyads on ITO and Gold Surfaces

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  84. Time-resolved analysis of intramolecular electronic energy transfer in methylenes-linked naphthalene–anthracene compounds in solution and in stretched polymer films

    Article • Journal of Luminescence, May 2003, Elsevier

    Dr. Miki Hasegawa, Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  85. Structure and photoelectrochemical properties of ITO electrodes modified with self-assembled monolayers of meso, meso-linked porphyrin oligomers

    Article • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, May 2003, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  86. Metal and size effects on structures and photophysical properties of porphyrin-modified metal nanoclusters

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2003, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura, Ph.D. Yukiyasu Kashiwagi

  87. Enhancement of Photocurrent Generation by ITO Electrodes Modified Chemically with Self-Assembled Monolayers of Porphyrin–Fullerene Dyads

    Article • Advanced Materials, June 2002, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  88. Intramolecular Excitation Energy Transfer in Bichromophoric Compounds in Stretched Polymer Films

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, April 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Miki Hasegawa, Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  89. Electric Field Effects on Fluorescence of Methylene-Linked Compounds of Phenanthrene andN,N-Dimethylaniline in a Poly(methyl methacrylate) Polymer Film†

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, November 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  90. Concentration Effects of Porphyrin Monolayers on the Structure and Photoelectrochemical Properties of Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers of Porphyrin and Alkanethiol on Gold Electrodes

    Article • Langmuir, August 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  91. Modified Windmill Porphyrin Arrays: Coupled Light-Harvesting and Charge Separation, Conformational Relaxation in the S1 State, and S2-S2 Energy Transfer

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, July 2001, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  92. Light-Harvesting and Photocurrent Generation by Gold Electrodes Modified with Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers of Boron−Dipyrrin and Ferrocene−Porphyrin−Fullerene Triad

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, January 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  93. Photoactive Three-Dimensional Monolayers:  Porphyrin−Alkanethiolate-Stabilized Gold Clusters

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, January 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  94. Coordination Control of Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Boronate-Bridged Zinc PorphyrinDiimide Molecules

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, December 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  95. Electric-field-induced enhancement of LE fluorescence in a linked compound of carbazole and terephthalic acid methyl ester in a PMMA polymer film

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, December 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  96. Three-Dimensionally Arranged Windmill and Grid Porphyrin Arrays by AgI-Promotedmeso-meso Block Oligomerization

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2000, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  97. Time-resolved analysis of intramolecular electronic energy transfer in methylenes-linked naphthalene–anthracene compounds

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, June 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  98. Measurements of the electric-field-induced change in fluorescence decay profile of a mixture of ethylcarbazole and dimethylterephthalate in a PMMA polymer film

    Article • Journal of Luminescence, May 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  99. Vectorial Multistep Electron Transfer at the Gold Electrodes Modified with Self-Assembled Monolayers of Ferrocene−Porphyrin−Fullerene Triads

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, March 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  100. Energy-Gap Dependence of Photoinduced Charge Separation and Subsequent Charge Recombination in 1,4-Phenylene-Bridged Zinc-Free-Base Hybrid Porphyrins

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, January 2000, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  101. Photoinduced energy transfer in mixed self-assembled monolayers of pyrene and porphyrin

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2000, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  102. Remarkable enhancement of photocurrent generation by ITO electrodes modified with a self-assembled monolayer of porphyrin

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2000, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  103. Photosynthetic electron transfer using fullerenes as novel acceptors

    Article • Carbon, January 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  104. Orientation Effects on Excited State Dynamics of Zinc Porphyrin–Free Base Porphyrin–Pyromellitimide Triads

    Article • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, December 1999, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  105. Acceleration of Photoinduced Charge Separation in Porphyrin-C60Dyad with an Acetylene Spacer

    Article • Chemistry Letters, September 1999, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  106. Measurements of the electric-field-induced change in fluorescence decay profile of methylene-linked carbazole and terephthalic acid methyl ester in a PMMA polymer film

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, June 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  107. Highly Efficient Energy Dissipation by a Carotenoid in Face-to-Face Porphyrin−Carotenoid Dyads

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, May 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  108. Acceleration of Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Porphyrin-Linked C70

    Article • Chemistry Letters, March 1999, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  109. Remarkable Electric Field Effect on the Absorption Intensity of a Molecular Aggregate of Photomerocyanine in a PMMA Polymer Film

    Article • Chemistry Letters, February 1999, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  110. Synthesis and photophysical properties of a diporphyrin–fullerene triad

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 1999, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  111. Accelerated singlet energy transfer in bis(phenylethynyl)phenylene-bridged 5,10,15,20-tetraaryl zinc–free base hybrid diporphyrins

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2, January 1999, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  112. Windmill-Like Porphyrin Arrays as Potent Light-Harvesting Antenna Complexes

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, November 1998, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  113. Electric Field Effect on The Charge Migration of Methylene-Linked Carbazole and Terephthalic Acid Methyl Ester in PMMA Polymer Films

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, May 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  114. Electric-Field-Induced Quenching of Exciplex Fluorescence and Photocurrent Generation in a Mixture of Ethylcarbazole and Dimethyl Terephthalate Doped in a PMMA Polymer Film

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, May 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  115. Coordination control of intramolecular electron transfer in boronate ester-bridged donor–acceptor molecules

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 1998, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  116. Electric field effects on absorption and fluorescence spectra of pyrene doped in a PMMA polymer film

    Article • Thin Solid Films, December 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  117. An enhancement of excimer formation rate of pyrene by an external electric field in a PMMA polymer film

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, November 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  118. Energy and electron transfer properties of methyl pheophorbide-a in zinc porphyrin-pheophorbide dyads

    Article • Tetrahedron, October 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  119. Violet emission observed from phthalocyanines

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, June 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  120. Synthesis and Photochemical Properties of Anthracene-Polyyne-Porphyrin Assemblies

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, May 1997, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  121. Singlet energy transfer in bis(phenylethynyl)phenylene-bridged zinc–free base hybrid diporphyrins

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2, January 1997, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  122. Excitation energy transfer in carotenoid-chlorophyll protein complexes probed by femtosecond fluorescence decays

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, September 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  123. Excitation energy transfer in the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus: A specific effect of 1-hexanol on the optical properties of baseplate and energy transfer processes

    Article • Photosynthesis Research, May 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  124. A Sequential Electron-Transfer Relay in Diporphyrin–Porphyrin–Pyromellitimide Triads Analogous to That in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, January 1996, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  125. A Stepwise Electron-Transfer Relay Mimicking the Primary Charge Separation in Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Center

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, January 1996, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  126. External Electric Field Effects on Fluorescence in an Electron Donor and Acceptor System:  Ethylcarbazole and Dimethyl Terephthalate in PMMA Polymer Films

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, January 1996, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  127. External Electric Field Effects on Fluorescence of Methylene-Linked D−A Systems in Polymer Films:  (Carbazole)−(CH2)n−(Terephthalic Acid Methyl Ester)

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, January 1996, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  128. Synthesis of Natural Carotenoid-Modified Pyropheophorbide Dyads for Investigation of Carotenoid-Chlorophyll Excited State Interactions

    Article • Chemistry Letters, December 1995, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  129. Fucoxanthin-Pyropheophorbide and Zeaxanthin-Pyropheophorbide Dyads as New Models for Study on Carotenoid-Chlorophyll Excited State Interactions

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, November 1995, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  130. Identification of a photochemically inactive pheophytin molecule in the spinach D1-D2-cyt b559 complex

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, November 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  131. Synthesis and Intramolecular Electron- and Energy-Transfer Reactions of Polyyne- or Polyene-Bridged Diporphyrins

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, November 1995, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  132. Synthesis of 1,3-Dioxane-Bridged Pyropheophorbide-Diimide and Pyropheophorbide Dimer and Their Intramolecular Electron and Energy Transfer

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, October 1995, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  133. UV light and red light chemistry of metallophthalocyanine: wavelength-dependent photochemical reduction of tetrasodium salts of Zn(II) and Cu(II) tetrasulphonatophthalocyanines with amines

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry, June 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  134. Sequential Electron Transfer Leading to Long-Lived Charge Separated State in a Porphyrin–Oxochlorin–Pyromellitdimide Triad

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, January 1995, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  135. Kinetic analysis of energy transfer processes in LHC II isolated from the siphonous green alga, Bryopsis maxima with use of picosecond fluorescence spectroscopy

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, November 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  136. Energy migration in allophycocyanin-B trimer with a linker polypeptide: Analysis by the principal multi-component spectral estimation (PMSE) method

    Article • FEBS Letters, October 1994, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  137. Molecular organization of bacteriochlorophyll in chlorosomes of the green photosynthetic bacteriumChloroflexus aurantiacus: Studies of fluorescence depolarization accompanied by energy transfer processes

    Article • Photosynthesis Research, July 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  138. Picosecond excited-state dynamics of fixed-distance triads consisting of metalloporphyrin, doubly strapped metal-free porphyrin, and pyromellitimide

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, July 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  139. Presence and significance of minor antenna components in the energy transfer sequence of the green photosynthetic bacteriumChloroflexus aurantiacus

    Article • FEBS Letters, March 1994, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  140. Suppression of uv light-induced fading of color filters of zinc(II) tetrasulfonatophthalocyanine by introduction of a nitrophenyloxy-or a cyanophenyloxy-sulfonyl group.

    Article • Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology, January 1994, Technical Association of Photopolymers, Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  141. 1,3-Dioxane-Bridged Pyromellitimide-Pyropheophorbide and Pyropheophorbide Dimer

    Article • Chemistry Letters, December 1993, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  142. Direct trapping excitation energy transfer from rhodamine B to crystal violet in Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer and stacked multilayer films

    Article • Chemical Physics, December 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  143. Synthesis and photoexcited-state dynamics of aromatic group-bridged carotenoid-porphyrin dyads and carotenoid-porphyrin-pyromellitimide triads

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 1993, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  144. The effect of molecular structure on the relaxation processes of carotenoids containing a carbonyl group

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, October 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  145. Energy transfer processes inRhodopseudomonas palustrisgrown under low-light conditions

    Article • FEBS Letters, August 1993, Wiley

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  146. Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and photolysis of the photoreceptor blepharismin

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, July 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  147. 1,2-Phenylene-bridged diporphyrin linked with porphyrin monomer and pyromellitimide as a model for a photosynthetic reaction center: synthesis and photoinduced charge separation

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, June 1993, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  148. Direct measurement of the low-lying singlet excited (2 1Ag) state of a linear carotenoid, neurosporene, in solution

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, March 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  149. Geometry- and solvent-polarity-dependent photoinduced electron transfer in conformationally restricted magnesium—free-base hybrid diporphyrins

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, January 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  150. Synthesis of 1,2-Phenylene-Bridged Diporphyrin Linked with Porphyrin Monomer and Its Intramolecular Singlet-Singlet Excitation Energy Transfer

    Article • Chemistry Letters, January 1993, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  151. Xanthene Dye-Sensitized Electron Transfer to Methylviologen in Aqueous Organic Solution. Effects of Organic Solvents and Heavy Atoms in the Dyes

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, November 1992, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  152. Synthesis and Intramolecular Electron-Transfer Reaction of Distance-Fixed Quinone-Linked Porphyrins

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, October 1992, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  153. Excitation energy relaxation and dimer formation of fluorene in Langmuir—Blodgett monolayer films

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, September 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  154. Compact ultrafast microchannel plate photomultiplier tube

    Article • April 1992, SPIE

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  155. Quantitative analysis of the solvent effect on the relaxation processes of carotenoids showing dual emissive characteristics

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, April 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  156. Fluorescence properties of the allenic carotenoid fucoxanthin

    Article • Journal of Luminescence, February 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  157. Temperature-induced phase transition of pyrene-labeled (hydroxypropyl) cellulose in water: picosecond fluorescence studies

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, February 1992, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  158. Molecular structure and optical properties of carotenoids for the in vivo energy transfer function in the algal photosynthetic pigment system

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, January 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  159. Novel rotational isomerization of the anthracene nucleus around the C-C bond connected to the imine group in the excited singlet state of (E)-N-methoxy-1-(2-anthryl)ethanimine

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, December 1991, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  160. Intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer in fixed distance triads consisting of free-base porphyrin, zinc porphyrin, and electron acceptor

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, October 1991, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  161. Mechanism of Production of Singlet Oxygen on Photoexcitation of Drugs Inducing Photosensitivity

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, July 1991, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  162. Photoinduced electron transfer reactions in quinone-linked zinc porphyrin arrays

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, July 1991, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  163. Picosecond dynamics of intramolecular singlet excitation energy transfer and photoinduced electron transfer in covalently-linked carotenoid—porphyrin and carotenoid—porphyrin—pyromellitimide molecules

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, July 1991, Elsevier

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  164. Wavelength-dependent Photofading of Zinc Phthalocyanin in the Presence of an Electron Donor

    Article • Chemistry Letters, October 1990, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  165. Effects of Organic Solvents on Charge Separation in Photo-induced Electron Transfer from Xanthene Dyes to Methyl Viologen

    Article • Chemistry Letters, September 1989, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  166. Kinetic Study on Electron Transfer Photooxygenation of Aromatic Olefins. Quenching Rates of Olefin Radical Cations by Oxygen and Superoxide Anion

    Article • Chemistry Letters, November 1987, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  167. Mechanistic Approach to the Sensitization Process of Aromatic Ketones in the Isomerization between Norbornadiene and Quadricyclane

    Article • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, August 1987, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura

  168. Excitation delocalization and relaxation in linear and circular arrays of porphyrins

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Yoshinobu Nishimura