Atsuhiro Osuka
Atsuhiro Osuka
Born(1954-10-16)16 October 1954
Gamagōri, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
NationalityJapanese
EducationKyoto University
Alma materKyoto University
Known for
  • Porphyrin Chemistry
  • Möbius aromatic expanded porphyrins
  • π-electron systems
AwardsCSJ award 2010
Scientific career
Thesis (1982)
Doctoral advisorK. Maruyama

Atsuhiro Osuka (大須賀篤弘, Osuka Atsuhiro, born 16 October 1954) is a research professor of organic chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University (Japan).[1] He is recognized in the fields of porphyrinoid chemistry for his works in extended π-electron systems and its tunable aromatic behaviors.[2][3][4]

Osuka has published research concerning extremely long porphyrin arrays,[1][5] extensively π-conjugated porphyrin tapes,[6] large porphyrin wheels, an antiaromatic porphyrin sheet,[7][8] porphyrin belts, and porphyrin barrels. He has explored the properties of Meso-aryl expanded porphyrins for its transannular reactions and splitting reactions.[9] He has used meso-aryl expanded porphyrins as a scaffold to study twisted Möbius aromatic[10] and antiaromatic[11] systems.

Osuka introduced a new class of real congeners of contracted porphyrins, which he named subporphyrins.[12]

Early life

Osuka was born on 16 October 1954 in Gamagōri, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.[13]

Education

In 1977, Osuka completed his B.S., Faculty of Science from Kyoto University. In 1982, he received his PhD from the Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University.[13]

Academic career

From 1979 to 1984, Osuka served at Ehime University as an assistant professor. He returned to Kyoto University, and served as an assistant professor from 1984 to 1987, and as an associate professor from 1987 to 1996. In 1996, he was named as a professor at Kyoto University, where he worked until his retirement in 2020.

Osuka served as a visiting professor at the University of Burgundy in 2006 and 2009, and also at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006.

From 2001 to 2007, Osuka was the Project Leader of "Creation of Bio-devices and Bio-systems with Chemical and Biological Molecules for Medical Use" at the Japan Science and Technology Agency.[1][13]

On the occasion of his 65th birthday and his retirement, in 2020, from Kyoto University, a special issue of the Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines was dedicated to honouring Osaka and his achievements. As a mark of respect for his work in this field, T. K. Chandrashekar and J. Sessler were among the fifty-five scholar-contributors who submitted their research papers to be published in his honour.

Osuka's influence in the field of porphyrin chemistry, due to his scientific discoveries, were mentioned in the foreword to the issue. Of note were the preparation of various extended porphyrins as Huckel-Möbius (anti) aromaticity switching models, structural rearrangements and "creation of a vast array" of new π conjugated structures of "tremendous aesthetic appeal".[14][15]

Awards and recognition

Publications

Number of citations in Google Scholar, August 2020 Year of publication Work
434 1997 Osuka, Atsuhiro; Shimidzu, Hitoshi (3 February 1997). "meso, meso-Linked Porphyrin Arrays". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 36 (12): 135–137. doi:10.1002/anie.199701351.
384 2000 Aratani, Naoki; Osuka, Atsuhiro; Kim, Yong Hee; Jeong, Dae Hong; Kim, Dongho (2000). "Extremely Long, Discrete meso – meso-Coupled Porphyrin Arrays". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 39 (8): 1458–1462. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(20000417)39:8<1458::AID-ANIE1458>3.0.CO;2-E. PMID 10777641.
855 2001 Tsuda, A.; Osuka, Atsuhiro (6 July 2001). "Fully Conjugated Porphyrin Tapes with Electronic Absorption Bands That Reach into Infrared". Science. 293 (5527): 79–82. doi:10.1126/science.1059552. PMID 11441176. S2CID 12054440.
438 2004 Kim, Dongho; Osuka, Atsuhiro (October 2004). "Directly Linked Porphyrin Arrays with Tunable Excitonic Interactions". Accounts of Chemical Research. 37 (10): 735–745. doi:10.1021/ar030242e. PMID 15491120.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Author Profile: Atsuhiro Osuka". Angewandte Chemie. 51 (40): 9970. doi:10.1002/anie.201203104.
  2. ^ Chemical Science of [pi]-Electron Systems. Tokyo, Japan: Springer. 2015. ISBN 978-4431562436.
  3. ^ Tanaka, Takayuki; Osuka, Atsuhiro (2017). "Chemistry of meso-Aryl-Substituted Expanded Porphyrins: Aromaticity and Molecular Twist". Chem. Rev. 117 (4): 2584–2640. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00371. PMID 27537063.
  4. ^ Shin, Ji-Young; Furuta, Hiroyuki; Yoza, Kenji; Igarashi, Shinetsu; Osuka, Atsuhiro (29 June 2001). "meso-Aryl-Substituted Expanded Porphyrins". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123 (29): 7190–1. doi:10.1021/ja0106624. PMID 11459512.
  5. ^ Osuka, Atsuhiro; Shimidzu, Hitoshi (1997). "meso, meso‐Linked Porphyrin Arrays". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 36 (12): 135–137. doi:10.1002/anie.199701351.
  6. ^ Tsuda, A.; Osuka, A. (6 July 2001). "Fully Conjugated Porphyrin Tapes with Electronic Absorption Bands That Reach into Infrared". Science. 293 (5527): 79–82. doi:10.1126/science.1059552. PMID 11441176. S2CID 12054440.
  7. ^ Song, Jianxin; Aratani, Naoki; Kim, Pyosang; Kim, Dongho; Shinokubo, Hiroshi; Osuka, Atsuhiro (6 May 2010). "Porphyrin "Lego Block" Strategy To Construct Directly meso–β Doubly Linked Porphyrin Rings". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49 (21): 3617–20. Bibcode:2010AngCh.122.3699S. doi:10.1002/ange.201000915. PMID 20394095.
  8. ^ Nakamura, Yasuyuki; Aratani, Naoki; Shinokubo, Hiroshi; Takagi, Akihiko; Kawai, Tomoji; Matsumoto, Takuya; Yoon, Zin Seok; Kim, Deok Yun; Ahn, Tae Kyu; Kim, Dongho; Muranaka, Atsuya; Kobayashi, Nagao; Osuka, Atsuhiro (2006). "A Directly Fused Tetrameric Porphyrin Sheet and Its Anomalous Electronic Properties That Arise from the Planar Cyclooctatetraene Core". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 (12): 4119–27. doi:10.1021/ja057812l. PMID 16551121.
  9. ^ Suzuki, Masaaki; Osuka, Atsuhiro (2007). "Cross-Bridging Reaction of 5,20-Diethynyl Substituted Hexaphyrins to Vinylene-Bridged Hexaphyrins". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129 (3): 464–5. doi:10.1021/ja067102v. PMID 17226989.
  10. ^ Yoon, Zin Seok; Osuka, Atsuhiro; Kim, Dongho (May 2009). "Möbius aromaticity and antiaromaticity in expanded porphyrins". Nature Chemistry. 1 (2): 113–22. Bibcode:2009NatCh...1..113Y. doi:10.1038/nchem.172. PMID 21378823.
  11. ^ Mori, Shigeki; Osuka, Atsuhiro (13 May 2005). "Aromatic and Antiaromatic Gold (III) Hexaphyrins with Multiple Gold−Carbon Bonds". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 (22): 8030–1. doi:10.1021/ja051662x. PMID 15926824.
  12. ^ Inokuma, Yasuhide; Kwon, Jung Ho; Ahn, Tae Kyu; Yoo, Min-Chul; Kim, Dongho; Osuka, Atsuhiro (2006). "Tribenzosubporphines: Synthesis and Characterization". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 45 (6): 961–4. doi:10.1002/anie.200503426. PMID 16381040.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g "Prof. Dr. Atsuhiro Osuka, Department of Chemistry, Kyoto Univ". kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/.
  14. ^ a b Torres, Tomás; Sessler, Jonathan L.; Kim, Dongho; Furuta, Hiroyuki (1 January 2020). "Preface — Special Issue in Honor of Professor Atsuhiro Osuka". Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines. 24 (1n03): i. doi:10.1142/S1088424620020010. S2CID 214111571.
  15. ^ a b "Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines special issue". Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines.
  16. ^ icpp. "Lifetime Achievement Awards". icpp-spp.org.

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