Naoki Ousaka

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

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Naoki Ousaka is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Biomaterials and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Naoki Ousaka has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Organic Chemistry, 34 papers in Biomaterials and 25 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Naoki Ousaka's work include Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (33 papers), Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (25 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (24 papers). Naoki Ousaka is often cited by papers focused on Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (33 papers), Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (25 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (24 papers). Naoki Ousaka collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Naoki Ousaka's co-authors include Eiji Yashima, Daisuke Taura, Tomoyuki Ikai, Kouhei Shimomura, Katsuhiro Maeda, Yoshihito Inai, Jonathan R. Nitschke, Hiroki Iida, Reiko Kuroda and Jack K. Clegg and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Naoki Ousaka

55 papers receiving 3.2k 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 →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Naoki Ousaka Japan	26	2.4k	1.5k	1.2k	804	658	56	3.2k
Daisuke Taura Japan	16	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	965 0.8×	381 0.5×	398 0.6×	32	2.2k
Kouhei Shimomura Japan	10	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	365 0.5×	499 0.8×	14	2.4k
Roy T. McBurney United Kingdom	25	2.6k 1.1×	465 0.3×	974 0.8×	726 0.9×	784 1.2×	33	3.2k
Chuyang Cheng United States	24	1.8k 0.7×	562 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	395 0.5×	736 1.1×	36	2.6k
Qiaochun Wang China	29	2.5k 1.1×	881 0.6×	2.3k 1.9×	584 0.7×	1.5k 2.3×	88	3.8k
Sheng‐Hsien Chiu Taiwan	36	3.1k 1.3×	649 0.4×	1.6k 1.3×	966 1.2×	1.8k 2.8×	103	3.9k
Pawaret Leowanawat United States	34	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	706 0.9×	401 0.6×	67	4.4k
Kevin R. West United Kingdom	15	1.5k 0.6×	563 0.4×	712 0.6×	872 1.1×	639 1.0×	17	2.4k
R.G. Khoury United States	23	1.5k 0.6×	535 0.3×	1.3k 1.1×	904 1.1×	463 0.7×	42	2.7k
Tomohisa Sawada Japan	25	1.3k 0.5×	733 0.5×	478 0.4×	649 0.8×	426 0.6×	41	1.9k

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Ousaka, Naoki, Mark J. MacLachlan, Shigehisa Akine, & Shigenori Fujikawa. (2025). Stabilization of optically inactive α-helices of peptidic foldamers through sequence control and i, i + 4 stapling. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 23(14). 3366–3371. 1 indexed citations

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Taura, Daisuke, et al.. (2024). Separation of enantiomers of chiral fullerene derivatives through enantioselective encapsulation within an adaptable helical cavity of syndiotactic poly(methyl methacrylate) with helicity memory. Chirality. 36(4). e23663–e23663. 1 indexed citations

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Ousaka, Naoki, et al.. (2022). Supramolecular Helical Assemblies of Dirhodium(II) Paddlewheels with 1,4-Diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane: A Remarkable Substituent Effect on the Helical Sense Preference and Amplification of the Helical Handedness Excess of Metallo-Supramolecular Helical Polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(6). 2775–2792. 26 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, 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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Ousaka, Naoki, et al.. (2021). Water-Mediated Reversible Control of Three-State Double-Stranded Titanium(IV) Helicates. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(11). 4346–4358. 16 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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Taura, Daisuke, et al.. (2020). Enantiodifferentiating Photodimerization of a 2,6‐Disubstituted Anthracene Assisted by Supramolecular Double‐Helix Formation with Chiral Amines. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(19). 7478–7486. 18 indexed citations

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Ikai, Tomoyuki, et al.. (2020). Helix-Sense-Selective Encapsulation of Helical Poly(lactic acid)s within a Helical Cavity of Syndiotactic Poly(methyl methacrylate) with Helicity Memory. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(52). 21913–21925. 26 indexed citations

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Taura, Daisuke, et al.. (2020). Enantiodifferentiating Photodimerization of a 2,6‐Disubstituted Anthracene Assisted by Supramolecular Double‐Helix Formation with Chiral Amines. Angewandte Chemie. 132(19). 7548–7556. 9 indexed citations

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Ousaka, Naoki, Shinya Yamamoto, Hiroki Iida, et al.. (2019). Water-mediated deracemization of a bisporphyrin helicate assisted by diastereoselective encapsulation of chiral guests. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1457–1457. 28 indexed citations

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Taura, Daisuke, et al.. (2019). Fluorescent molecular spring that visualizes the extension and contraction motions of a double-stranded helicate bearing terminal pyrene units triggered by release and binding of alkali metal ions. Chemical Communications. 55(80). 12084–12087. 12 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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Ousaka, Naoki, Kaori Shimizu, Daisuke Taura, et al.. (2018). Spiroborate-Based Double-Stranded Helicates: Meso-to-Racemo Isomerization and Ion-Triggered Springlike Motion of the Racemo-Helicate. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(49). 17027–17039. 45 indexed citations

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Ousaka, Naoki, et al.. (2018). Allosteric regulation of metal-binding sites inside an optically-active helical foldamer and its tubular assemblies. Chemical Communications. 54(19). 2417–2420. 12 indexed citations

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Taura, Daisuke, et al.. (2017). Chiral Template-Directed Regio-, Diastereo-, and Enantioselective Photodimerization of an Anthracene Derivative Assisted by Complementary Amidinium–Carboxylate Salt Bridge Formation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(21). 7388–7398. 31 indexed citations

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Li, Ming‐Chia, Naoki Ousaka, Hsiao‐Fang Wang, Eiji Yashima, & Rong‐Ming Ho. (2017). Chirality Control and Its Memory at Microphase-Separated Interface of Self-Assembled Chiral Block Copolymers for Nanostructured Chiral Materials. ACS Macro Letters. 6(9). 980–986. 24 indexed citations

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Ousaka, Naoki, et al.. (2015). Remote Control of the Planar Chirality in Peptide‐Bound Metallomacrocycles and Dynamic‐to‐Static Planar Chirality Control Triggered by Solvent‐Induced 3₁₀‐to‐α‐Helix Transitions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(48). 14442–14446. 40 indexed citations

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Ousaka, Naoki, et al.. (2013). Anion‐Driven Reversible Switching of Metal‐Centered Stereoisomers in Metallopeptides. Chemistry - A European Journal. 19(15). 4680–4685. 34 indexed citations

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Ousaka, Naoki, Yoshihito Inai, & Takahiro Okabe. (2006). Chiral interaction in Gly‐capped N‐terminal motif of 3₁₀‐helix and domino‐type induction in helix sense. Biopolymers. 83(4). 337–351. 13 indexed citations

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