Kentaro Tashiro

Kentaro Tashiro
Affiliation:
Reticular Materials Unit, Reticular Materials Group
Specialty:
Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry
Academic degree:
Ph.D.,in organic chemistry, University of Tokyo (2000)
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Home Page:
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Educational and Working History

2008 - Present MANA Scientist, Reticular Materials Group, MANA, NIMS
2008 - Present Deputy Head, Reticular Materials Group, NIMS
2000 Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo
2000 Ph.D., University of Tokyo

Research Interests

Materials science based on synthetic and supramolecular chemistry.
For details, see the personal HP.

Related Links

Award
  • The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists, 2007, "Molecular Design of Π-Electronic Space for Manipulation of Fullerenes"
    Nov. 17, 2009

Selected Papers

  1. Ferromagnetic Spin Coupling between Endohedral Metallofullerene La@C82 and a Cyclodimeric Copper Porphyrin upon Inclusion
    Fatin Hajjaj, Kentaro Tashiro, Hidefumi Nikawa, Naomi Mizorogi, Takeshi Akasaka, Shigeru Nagase, Ko Furukawa, Tatsuhisa Kato and Takuzo Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 9290-9292.
  2. Electron- or Hole-Transporting Nature Selected by Side-Chain-Directed Π-Stacking Geometry: Liquid Crystalline Fused Metalloporphyrin Dimers
    Tsuneaki Sakurai, Kentaro Tashiro, Yoshihito Honsho, Akinori Saeki, Shu Seki, Atsuhiro Osuka, Atsuya Muranaka, Masanobu Uchiyama, Jungeun Kim, Sunyeo Ha, Kenichi Kato, Masaki Takata and Takuzo Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 6537-6540.
  3. Assembly and Manipulation of Rotatable Cerium-Porphyrinato Sandwich Complexes on a Surface
    David Ecija, Willi Auwarter, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Knud Seufert, Felix Bischoff, Kentaro Tashiro and Johannes V. Barth
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3872-3877.(selected as Frontispiece Picture).
  4. Synthesis of Metal-Organic Complex Arrays
    Pothiappan Vairaprakash, Hisanori Ueki, Kentaro Tashiro and Omar M. Yaghi
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 759-761. (highlighted in C&EN, 2011, 89, 8).
  5. Chiroselective Assembly of a Chiral Porphyrin-Fullerene Dyad: Photoconductive Nanofiber with a Top-class Ambipolar Charge-Carrier Mobility
    Yumi Hizume, Kentaro Tashiro, Richard Charvet, Yohei Yamamoto, Akinori Saeki, Shu Seki and Takuzo Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132: 6628?6629.
  6. One-Pot Enantioselective Extraction of Chiral Fullerene C76 Using a Cyclic Host Carrying an Asymmetrically Distorted, Highly Π-Basic Porphyrin Module
    Yoshiaki Shoji, Kentaro Tashiro and Takuzo Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132: 5928?5929.
  7. Liquid Crystalline Corannulene Responsive to Electric Field
    Daigo Miyajima, Kentaro Tashiro, Fumito Araoka, Hideo Takezoe, Jungeun Kim, Kenichi Kato, Masaki Takata and Takuzo Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131: 44?45.
  8. Prominent Electron Transport Property Observed for Triply Fused Metalloporphyrin Dimer: Directed Columnar Liquid Crystalline Assembly by Amphiphilic Molecular Design
    Tsuneaki Sakurai, Keyu Shi, Hiroshi Sato, Kentaro Tashiro, Atsuhiro Osuka, Akinori Saeki, Shu Seki, Seiichi Tagawa, Sono Sasaki, Hiroyasu Masunaga, Keiichi Osaka, Masaki Takata and Takuzo Aida
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130: 13812?13813.