B.S. (2007) & Ph.D. (2012) from Kyoto U. (Supervisor: Prof. Atsuhiro Osuka) JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad (2012-2013) at Boston College, USA (Supervisor: Prof. Lawrence T. Scott) Assistant Professor (2003-2008) at Kyoto U. (Dept. of Chemistry, Osuka Group) Reaxys Ph. D. Prize Finalist (2012)

Organic Chemistry (Synthesis/Reactions/Structure/Functions)

Creation of novel fused porphyrinoids, ring-contracted porphyrinoids, and functional organic fluorophores.

"Porphyrin–Hexaphyrin Hybrid Tapes" Takayuki Tanaka, Naoki Aratani, Jong Ming Lim, Kil Suk Kim, Dongho Kim, and Atsuhiro Osuka Chemical Science, 2011, 2, 1414-1418. "Synthesis and Properties of Hybrid Porphyrin Tapes" Takayuki Tanaka, Byung Sung Lee, Naoki Aratani, Min-Chul Yoon, Dongho Kim, and Atsuhiro Osuka Chemistry – A European Journal, 2011, 17, 14400-14412. "Effective meso-Fabrications of Subporphyrins" Masaaki Kitano, Shin-ya Hayashi, Takayuki Tanaka, Hideki Yorimitsu, Naoki Aratani, Atsuhiro Osuka Angewandte. Chemie. International. Eddition. 2012, 51, 5593-5597. "Rational Synthesis of A2B-Type meso-Triarylsubporphyrins" Takayuki Tanaka, Masaaki Kitano, Shin-ya Hayashi, Naoki Aratani, Atsuhiro Osuka Organic Letters. 2012, 14, 2694-2697. "Fused porphyrinoids as promising near-infrared absorbing dyes" Hirotaka Mori, Takayuki Tanaka, Atsuhiro Osuka

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2013, in press