Eiji Yashima

29.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
426 papers, 26.1k citations indexed

About

Eiji Yashima is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Eiji Yashima has authored 426 papers receiving a total of 26.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 296 papers in Organic Chemistry, 154 papers in Spectroscopy and 150 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Eiji Yashima's work include Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (196 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (144 papers) and Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (86 papers). Eiji Yashima is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (196 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (144 papers) and Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (86 papers). Eiji Yashima collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Eiji Yashima's co-authors include Katsuhiro Maeda, Yoshio Okamoto, Yoshio Furusho, Hiroki Iida, Jiro Kumaki, Tomoyuki Ikai, Naoki Ousaka, Kanji Nagai, Kento Okoshi and Kouhei Shimomura and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Eiji Yashima

422 papers receiving 25.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Supramolecular Helical Systems: Helical Assemblies of Small Molecules, Foldamers, and Polymers with Chiral Amplification and Their Functions

2016 1.6k citations Eiji Yashima, Naoki Ousaka et al. profile →
Helical Polymers: Synthesis, Structures, and Functions

2009 1.5k citations Eiji Yashima, Katsuhiro Maeda et al. profile →
Polysaccharide Derivatives for Chromatographic Separation of Enantiomers

1998 836 citations Yoshio Okamoto, Eiji Yashima Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Memory of macromolecular helicity assisted by interaction with achiral small molecules

1999 702 citations Eiji Yashima, Katsuhiro Maeda et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eiji Yashima Japan	84	17.3k	9.0k	8.2k	8.0k	5.5k	426	26.1k
Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh India	70	7.7k 0.4×	9.5k 1.1×	12.7k 1.5×	3.5k 0.4×	2.8k 0.5×	236	18.8k
Yoshio Okamoto Japan	75	13.3k 0.8×	3.4k 0.4×	5.1k 0.6×	14.1k 1.8×	4.7k 0.8×	572	26.5k
Stefan Matile Switzerland	78	7.3k 0.4×	3.2k 0.4×	5.9k 0.7×	5.1k 0.6×	8.3k 1.5×	392	20.1k
Yoshihisa Inoue Japan	65	11.8k 0.7×	2.0k 0.2×	8.1k 1.0×	7.3k 0.9×	4.4k 0.8×	528	21.4k
Lyle Isaacs United States	68	13.2k 0.8×	2.9k 0.3×	5.6k 0.7×	8.1k 1.0×	2.9k 0.5×	223	17.4k
Françisco M. Raymo United States	68	9.0k 0.5×	1.9k 0.2×	11.5k 1.4×	5.4k 0.7×	3.2k 0.6×	257	19.8k
Christoph A. Schalley Germany	60	8.4k 0.5×	2.3k 0.3×	4.5k 0.6×	5.6k 0.7×	2.6k 0.5×	305	14.0k
Santanu Bhattacharya India	71	5.5k 0.3×	3.8k 0.4×	5.2k 0.6×	2.8k 0.3×	7.0k 1.3×	389	15.9k
Fritz Vögtle Germany	75	15.3k 0.9×	2.0k 0.2×	9.2k 1.1×	7.1k 0.9×	7.1k 1.3×	703	25.6k
Subi J. George India	70	5.9k 0.3×	6.6k 0.7×	8.9k 1.1×	1.9k 0.2×	1.6k 0.3×	198	13.6k

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Yashima, Eiji, et al.. (2025). Induced Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Dynamically Racemic Luminophores Assisted by Formation of Helical Phase via Self-Assembly of Chiral Block Copolymers. Macromolecules. 58(15). 8308–8315.

Ikai, Tomoyuki, et al.. (2025). Tunable Synthesis of One-Handed Helical Ladder Polymers with a Helical Cavity or Helical Grooves for Advanced Chiral Recognition. Macromolecules. 58(13). 6943–6952. 1 indexed citations

Ikai, Tomoyuki, et al.. (2024). Helix‐Sense‐Selective Memory Polymerization of Biphenylylacetylenes Bearing Carboxy and Amino Groups in Water. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(45). e202412752–e202412752. 3 indexed citations

Ikai, Tomoyuki, Masaki Ito, Kosuke Oki, Nozomu Suzuki, & Eiji Yashima. (2023). One‐Handed Helical Polyacetylenes Bearing Axially‐Chiral 2‐Arylpyridyl‐N‐Oxide Units for Efficient Chromatographic Enantioseparation of Chiral Aromatic and Aliphatic Alcohols. Angewandte Chemie. 135(31). 1 indexed citations

Yashima, Eiji. (2023). Synthesis and applications of helical polymers with dynamic and static memories of helicity. Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B. 99(10). 438–459. 6 indexed citations

Huang, Li‐Bo, et al.. (2023). Self-Assembling Peptide-Appended Metallomacrocycle Pores for Selective Water Translocation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(33). 40133–40139. 3 indexed citations

Ikai, Tomoyuki, et al.. (2022). Catalytic One-Handed Helix Induction and Subsequent Static Memory of Poly(biphenylylacetylene)s Assisted by a Small Amount of Carboxy Groups Introduced at the Pendants. ACS Macro Letters. 11(4). 525–531. 16 indexed citations

Ikai, Tomoyuki, et al.. (2022). Chiral and Achiral Pendant-Bound Poly(biphenylylacetylene)s Bearing Amide and/or Carbamate Groups: One-Handed Helix Formations and Chiral Recognition Abilities. Macromolecules. 55(16). 7023–7031. 16 indexed citations

Zheng, Wei, Tomoyuki Ikai, Kosuke Oki, & Eiji Yashima. (2022). Consecutively fused single‐, double‐, and triple‐expanded helicenes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 29 indexed citations

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Ousaka, Naoki, Shinya Yamamoto, Hiroki Iida, et al.. (2021). Encapsulation of Aromatic Guests in the Bisporphyrin Cavity of a Double-Stranded Spiroborate Helicate: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Studies and the Encapsulation Mechanism. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 86(15). 10501–10516. 4 indexed citations

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Ikai, Tomoyuki, Masaki Ito, Ryoma Ishidate, et al.. (2021). Emergence of Highly Enantioselective Catalytic Activity in a Helical Polymer Mediated by Deracemization of Racemic Pendants. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(32). 12725–12735. 62 indexed citations

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Ikai, Tomoyuki, et al.. (2021). Chiral amplification of supramolecular coassemblies of chiral and achiral acylhydrazine-functionalized biphenyls and their copolymers. Polymer Journal. 53(12). 1475–1480.

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Zheng, Wei, Tomoyuki Ikai, & Eiji Yashima. (2021). Synthesis of Single‐Handed Helical Spiro‐Conjugated Ladder Polymers through Quantitative and Chemoselective Cyclizations**. Angewandte Chemie. 133(20). 11394–11399. 18 indexed citations

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Ikai, Tomoyuki, et al.. (2020). Racemic Monomer‐Based One‐Handed Helical Polymer Recognizes Enantiomers through Auto‐Evolution of Its Helical Handedness Excess. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(9). 4625–4632. 46 indexed citations

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Taura, Daisuke, et al.. (2020). Remote-controlled regio- and diastereodifferentiating photodimerization of a dynamic helical peptide-bound 2-substituted anthracene. Chemical Communications. 56(87). 13433–13436. 2 indexed citations

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Ikai, Tomoyuki, et al.. (2020). Chiral/Achiral Copolymers of Biphenylylacetylenes Bearing Various Substituents: Chiral Amplification through Copolymerization, Followed by Enhancement/Inversion and Memory of the Macromolecular Helicity. Macromolecules. 53(3). 973–981. 36 indexed citations

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Mishra, Suryakant, Amit Kumar Mondal, Eilam Z. B. Smolinsky, et al.. (2020). Spin Filtering Along Chiral Polymers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(34). 14671–14676. 88 indexed citations

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Ishidate, Ryoma, Albert J. Markvoort, Katsuhiro Maeda, & Eiji Yashima. (2019). Unexpectedly Strong Chiral Amplification of Chiral/Achiral and Chiral/Chiral Copolymers of Biphenylylacetylenes and Further Enhancement/Inversion and Memory of the Macromolecular Helicity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(18). 7605–7614. 115 indexed citations

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Ousaka, Naoki, et al.. (2018). Tug‐of‐War in a Dynamic Helical Peptide: Solvent‐Induced Helix‐Helix Transition of a Lactam‐Bridged Peptide Composed of Point‐ and Axial Chiralities Remote from Each Other. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 13(21). 3150–3154. 6 indexed citations

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Yashima, Eiji & Yoshio Okamoto. (1997). Chromatographic and Membrane Separation of Enantiomers Using Polysaccharide Derivatives.. MEMBRANE. 22(3). 120–125.

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