Jun‐ichi Aihara

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
192 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Jun‐ichi Aihara is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Jun‐ichi Aihara has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Organic Chemistry, 67 papers in Materials Chemistry and 45 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Jun‐ichi Aihara's work include Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (105 papers), Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (79 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (28 papers). Jun‐ichi Aihara is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (105 papers), Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (79 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (28 papers). Jun‐ichi Aihara collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Hungary and United States. Jun‐ichi Aihara's co-authors include Toshimasa Ishida, Masakazu Makino, Hideaki Kanno, Mitsuho Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Horikawa, Rika Sekine, Haruo Hosoya, Naoko Nishina, Jerry Ray Dias and Naomi Mizorogi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Physics Letters and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Jun‐ichi Aihara

190 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

Reduced HOMO−LUMO Gap as an Index of Kinetic Stability fo... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 250 500 750
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  1. Reduced HOMO−LUMO Gap as an Index of Kinetic Stability for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
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Peers

Jun‐ichi Aihara
Michał K. Cyrański Poland
Jordi Poater Spain
Eduard Matito Spain
Tadeusz M. Krygowski Poland
Miquel Duran Spain
William C. Herndon United States
Bjørg N. Cyvin Norway
Robert Ponec Czechia
Karl Jug Germany
Clémence Corminbœuf Switzerland
Michał K. Cyrański Poland
Jun‐ichi Aihara
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jun‐ichi Aihara

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All Works

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Sekine, Rika, et al.. (2012). The origin of global and macrocyclic aromaticity in porphyrinoids. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 10(27). 5219–5219. 33 indexed citations
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Ishida, Toshimasa & Jun‐ichi Aihara. (2009). Aromaticity of neutral and doubly charged polyacenes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 11(33). 7197–7197. 28 indexed citations
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Aihara, Jun‐ichi & Masakazu Makino. (2009). Macrocyclic conjugation in N-fused porphyrins and related species. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 15(12). 1427–1433. 4 indexed citations
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Ciesielski, Arkadiusz, Tadeusz M. Krygowski, Michał K. Cyrański, Michał A. Dobrowolski, & Jun‐ichi Aihara. (2009). Graph–topological approach to magnetic properties of benzenoid hydrocarbons. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 11(48). 11447–11447. 32 indexed citations
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Aihara, Jun‐ichi & Masakazu Makino. (2009). Prediction of the main macrocyclic conjugation pathway for porphyrinoids from the ring current distribution. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 8(1). 261–266. 32 indexed citations
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Aihara, Jun‐ichi & Masakazu Makino. (2008). Aromaticity and Diatropicity of Polyacenequinododimethides. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 3(3). 585–591. 14 indexed citations
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Aihara, Jun‐ichi. (2008). Dimensionality of Aromaticity. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 81(2). 241–247. 30 indexed citations
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Ishida, Takekazu, Hideaki Kanno, & Jun‐ichi Aihara. (2007). Magnetic resonance energies of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecular ions. Polish Journal of Chemistry. 81. 699–710. 6 indexed citations
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Makino, Masakazu & Jun‐ichi Aihara. (2007). Aromaticity and magnetotropicity of dicyclopenta-fused polyacenes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 10(4). 591–599. 40 indexed citations
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Aihara, Jun‐ichi, et al.. (2004). Partly olefinic reference structure defined to evaluate bond resonance energy and the ring current it would sustain. Croatica Chemica Acta. 77. 353–359. 2 indexed citations
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Ishida, Toshimasa, et al.. (2004). Possible molecular hydrogen formation mediated by the inner and outer carbon atoms of typical PAH cations. Chemical Physics. 305(1-3). 307–316. 57 indexed citations
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Ishida, Toshimasa, et al.. (2003). Possible molecular hydrogen formation mediated by the radical cations of anthracene and pyrene. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 24(12). 1378–1382. 14 indexed citations
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Aihara, Jun‐ichi & Mitsuho Yoshida. (2001). Weighted HOMO-LUMO energy separations of properly closed-shell fullerene isomers. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. 19(2). 194–198. 8 indexed citations
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Harada, Akinori, et al.. (1996). CH Bond Dissociation Energies of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Molecular Cations: Theoretical Interpretation of the (M-1)+ Peak in the Mass Spectra. Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 31(11). 1216–1220. 16 indexed citations
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Aihara, Jun‐ichi. (1992). Is superaromaticity a fact or an artifact? The kekulene problem. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 114(3). 865–868. 89 indexed citations
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Aihara, Jun‐ichi. (1987). Topological Charge Stabilization Rule and Quasi-Aromaticity. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 60(6). 2268–2270. 11 indexed citations
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Aihara, Jun‐ichi. (1985). Development of the Concepts of Stability and Resonance Energy for Aromatic Compounds. Netsu sokutei. 12(2). 61–72. 5 indexed citations
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Aihara, Jun‐ichi. (1977). Resonance energies of benzenoid hydrocarbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 99(7). 2048–2053. 118 indexed citations
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Sasaki, Akira, Jun‐ichi Aihara, & Yoshio Matsunaga. (1974). Charge-Transfer Transitions Associated with Tricyanovinyl Aromatics. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 47(12). 2926–2929. 12 indexed citations
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Aihara, Jun‐ichi. (1974). The Solid-State Spectra of Several Rhodizonates. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 47(11). 2899–2900. 5 indexed citations

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