Y. Yamamoto, H. Tamiaki, "Synthesis and optical properties of chlorophyll dimers bridged by cis- and trans-forms of Pt(II) bis-acetylide complexes," J. Organomet. Chem., 749, 400–404 (2014).
H. Tamiaki, K. Fukai, H. Shimazu, S. Shoji, "Synthesis of zinc chlorophyll homo/hetero-dyads and their folded conformers with porphyrin, chlorin and bacteriochlorin π-systems," Photochem. Photobiol., 90, 121–128 (2014).
S. Machida, H. Tamiaki, "Self-aggregation of synthetic zinc hydroxylated chlorophyll derivatives inside aqueous micelles: neigbouring effect of additional O-functional groups," Chem. Lett., 43, 249–251 (2014)
R. Nishimori, S. Sakamoto, H. Tamiaki. S. Kashimura, Y. Saga, "Self-assembly of zinc chlorophyll derivatives possessing a pyrenyl group at the 17-propionate residue and effects of additional γ-cyclodextrin on their optical properties," Supramol. Chem., 26, 753–760 (2014).
Y. Kashiyama, H. Tamiaki, "Risk management by organisms of the phototoxicity of chlorophylls," Chem. Lett., 43, 148–156 (2014). [Highlight Review]
Y. Saga, T. Saiki, N. Takahashi, Y. Shibata, H. Tamiaki, "Scrambled self-assembly of bacteriochlorophyll c and e in aqueous Triton X-100 micelles," Photochem. Photobiol., 90, 552–559 (2014).
S. Jun, T. W. Kim, C. Yang, M. Isaji, H. Tamiaki, H. Ihee, J. Kim, "Ultrafast energy transfer in chlorosome probed by femtosecond pump-probe polarization anisotropy," Bull. Korean Chem. Soc., 35, 703–704 (2014).
H. Tamiaki, Y. Isoda, T. Tanaka, S. Machida, "Synthesis of chlorophyll–amino acid conjugates as models for modification of proteins with chromo/fluorophores," Bioorg. Med. Chem., 22, 1421–1428 (2014).
H. Tamiaki, S. Koizumi, K. Tsuji, Y. Kinoshita, T. Miyatake, "Synthesis of chlorophyll-a derivatives possessing (un)substituted 131-exo-methylene moiety and their optical properties," Tetrahedron Lett., 55, 1093–1096 (2014).
Y. Saga, K. Hayashi, T. Mizoguchi, H. Tamiaki, "Biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophyll c derivatives possessing chlorine and bromine atoms at the terminus of esterifying chains in the green sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum," J. Biosci. Bioeng., 117, 82–87 (2014).
H. Tamiaki, M. Ohata, Y. Kinoshita,, S. Machida, "Synthesis of 32-nitro-chlorophyll-a derivatives and their electronic absorption/emission in a solution," Tetrahedron, 70, 1629–1634 (2014).
T. Mizoguchi, J. Harada, Y. Tsukatani, H. Tamiaki, "Isolation and characterization of a new bacteriochlorophyll-c bearing a neopentyl substituent at the C8-position from the bciD-deletion mutant of the brown-colored green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum limnaeum," Photosynth. Res., 121, 3–12 (2014).
H. Tamiaki, T. Nagai, K. Mizutani, S. Machida, "Synthesis of amino-analogs of bacteriochlorophyll-d and their self-aggregation in an aqueous micelle solution," Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 24, 1668–1671 (2014).
Y. Yamamoto, H. Tamiaki, "Synthesis of chlorophyll derivatives possessing a mono/bi/terpyridyl group at the C3-ethynyl terminal and optical properties of the π-conjugates," Tetrahedron, 70, 2731–2737 (2014).
H. Tamiaki, M. Kuno, M. Kunieda, "Self-aggregation of a synthetic zinc chlorophyll derivative possessing a 131-dicyanomethylene group as a light-harvesting antenna model," Tetrahedron Lett., 55, 2825–2828 (2014).
J. Harada, T. Mizoguchi, Y. Tsukatani, M. Yokono, A. Tanaka, H. Tamiaki, "Chlorophyllide a oxidoreductase works as one of divinyl reductase specifically in bacteriochlorophyll a biosynthesis," J. Biol. Chem., 289, 12716–12726 (2014).
J. Harada, T. Mizoguchi, K. Nomura, H. Tamiaki, "Isolation and structural determination of C8-vinyl-bacteriochlorophyll d from the bciA and bchU double mutant of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum," Photosynth. Res., 121, 13–23 (2014).
S. Jun, C. Yang, M. Isaji, H. Tamiaki, J. Kim, H. Ihee, "Coherent oscillations in chlorosome elucidated by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy," J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 5, 1386–1392 (2014).
Y. Kinoshita, H. Tamiaki, "Regioselective addition of amines to the trifluoromethyl-β-diketonate moiety of a chlorophyll derivative," J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 18, 471–474 (2014).
H. Tamiaki, S. Matsunaga, Y. Taira, A. Wada, Y. Kinoshita, M. Kunieda, "Synthesis of zinc 20-substituted bacteriochlorophyll-d analogs and their self-aggregation," Tetrahedron Lett., 55, 3351–3354 (2014).
S. Ogasawara, H. Tamiaki, "C132-Methylation of methyl pheophorbide a and stereoselective preparation of methyl (132R)-methylpyropheophorbide a," Tetrahedron Lett., 55, 3618–3621 (2014).
Y. Kitagawa, H. Takeda, K. Ohashi, T. Asatani, D. Kosumi, H. Hashimoto, O. Ishitani, H. Tamiaki, "Photochemical reduction of CO2 with red light using synthetic chlorophyll–rhenium bipyridine dyad," Chem. Lett., 43, 1383–1385 (2014).
N. Takei, M. Morioka, M. Yoshizato, T. Tanaka, S. Sasaki, S. Itoh, H. Tamiaki, T. Oba, "Synthesis and photophysical properties of phenyl-sulfanylated chlorophyll derivatives," Tetrahedron, 70, 5109–5113 (2014).
M. Xu, Y. Kinoshita, H. Tamiaki, "Synthesis of chlorophyll-f analogs possessing the 2-formyl group by modifying chlorophyll-a," Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 24, 3997–4000 (2014).
J. Nomata, T. Kondo, T. Mizoguchi, H. Tamiaki, S. Itoh, Y. Fujita, "Dark-operative protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase generates substrate raicals by an iron-sulphur enzyme in bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis," Sci. Rep., 4, 5455; DOI:10.1038/srep05455 (2014).
H. Tamiaki, M. Kuno, M. Ohata, "Self-aggregation of synthetic zinc chlorophyll derivatives possessing 31-hydroxy or methoxy group and 131-mono- or dicyanomethylene moiety in non-polar organic solvents as models of chlorosomal bacteriochlorophyll-d aggregates," Photochem. Photobiol., 90, 1277–1286 (2014).
T. Oba, H. Tamiaki, "Asymmetry of chlorophylls in photosynthetic proteins: from the viewpoint of coordination chemistry," J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 18, 919–932 (2014).
M. Xu, H. Tamiaki, "Transformation of natural chlorophyll-a into chlorophyll-c analogs possessing the 17-acrylate residue," Chem. Lett., 43, 1864–1866 (2014).
H. Tamiaki, N. Ariki, T. Yasuda, T. Miyatake, T. Oba, "Synthesis of 20-iodochlorophyll derivatives and their properties including reactivity, electronic absorption, and self-aggregation," Tetrahedron, 70, 9768–9775 (2014).
R. Nishimori, H. Tamiaki, S. Kashiyama, Y. Saga, "In vitro self-assembly of bacteriochlorophyll c derivatives monoesterified with α,ω-diols isolated from the green sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum," Supramol. Chem., 27, 28–36 (2015).
Y. Kitagawa, S. Ogasawara, D. Kosumi, H. Hashimoto, H. Tamiaki, "Photophysical properties of chlorophyll derivatives linked with rhenium bipyridine complexes," Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 88, 346–351 (2015).
S. Ogasawara, H. Tamiaki, "Synthesis of methyl C132-alkylated pheophorbides a/a' and their stereochemical characterization," Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 26, 46–52 (2015).
T. Mizoguchi, M. Isaji, J. Harada, Y. Tsukatani, H. Tamiaki, "The 17-propionate esterifying variants of bacteriochlorophyll-a and bacteriopheophytin-a in purple photosynthetic bacteria," J. Photochem. Photobiol. B: Biol., 142, 244–249 (2015).
S. Sasaki, X.-F. Wang, T. Ikeuchi, H. Tamiaki, "Synthesis of carboxylated chlorophylls and their application as functional materials," J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 19, 517–526 (2015).
H. Tamiaki, T. Tanaka, "Synthesis and physical properties of carbonylated chlorophyll derivatives," Tetrahedron, 71, 1915–1923 (2015).
Y. Yamamoto, H. Tamiaki, "Synthesis, optical properties and protonation of chlorophyll derivatives appending a pyridyl group in the C3-substituent," Dyes Pigments, 118, 159–165 (2015).
Y. Tsukatani, J. Harada, J. Nomata, H. Yamamoto, Y. Fujita, T. Mizoguchi, H. Tamiaki, "Rhodobacter sphaeroides mutants overexpressing chlorophyllide a oxidoreductase of Blastochloris viridis elucidate functions of enzymes in late bacteriochlorophyll biosynthetic pathways," Sci. Rep., 5, 9741; DOI:10.1038/srep09741 (2015).
S. Jun, C. Yang, T. W. Kim, M. Isaji, H. Tamiaki, H. Ihee, J. Kim, "Role of thermal excitation in ultrafast energy transfer in chlorosomes revealed by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy," Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 17, 17872–17879 (2015).
Y. Kitagawa, S. Ogasawara, D. Kosumi, H. Hashimoto, H. Tamiaki, "Unique photophysical properties of chlorophyll derivatives linked with CO2-reducing moiety along the Qy axis," J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem., 311, 104–111 (2015).
H. Tamiaki, T. Tanaka, X.-F. Wang, "Photophysical properties of synthetic monomer, dimer, trimer, and tetramer of chlorophyll derivatives and their application to organic solar cells," J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem., 313, 19–26 (2015).
Y. Kinoshita, H. Tamiaki, "Synthesis and self-aggregation of chlorophyll derivatives possessing a pyrazole ring at the C3 position," J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem., 313, 27–35 (2015).
Y. Saga, K. Hayashi. K. Hirota, H. Tamiaki, "Modification of the esterifying farnesyl chain in light-harvesting bacteriochlorophylls in green sulfur photosynthetic bacteria by supplementation of 9-decyn-1-ol, 9-decen-1-ol, and decan-1-ol" J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem., 313, 44–51 (2015).
T. Mizoguchi, J. Harada, H. Tamiaki, "Inactivation of bciD and bchU genes in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum limnaeum and alteration of photosynthetic pigments in the resultant mutants," J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem., 313, 52–59 (2015).
H. Tamiaki, T. Nagai, T. Tanaka, T. Tatebe, "Synthesis and physical properties of chlorin monomer, dimer and trimer on the amino nitrogen atom," Bioorg. Med. Chem., 23, 5972–5978 (2015).
T. Oba, H. Tamiaki, "Meta-analysis of pigment-binding amino acid residues in photosynthetic proteins," Peptide Science 2014, 333–336 (2015).
Y. Tsukatani, Y. Hirose, J. Harada, N. Misawa, K. Mori, K. Inoue, H. Tamiaki, "Complete genome sequence of the bacteriochlorophyll b-producing photosynthetic bacterium Blastochloris viridis," Genome Announcements, 3, e01006-15 (2015).
Y. Saga, K. Hirota, J. Harada, H. Tamiaki, "In vitro enzymatic activities of bacteriochlorophyll a synthase derived from the green sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum," Biochemistry, 54, 4998–5005 (2015).
Y. Li, S. Sasaki, H. Tamiaki, C.-L. Liu, J. Song, W. Tian, E. Zheng, Y. Wei, G. Chen, X. Fu, X.-F. Wang, "Zinc chlorophyll aggregates as hole transporters for biocompatible, natural-photosynthesis-inspired solar cells," J. Power Sources, 297, 519–524 (2015).
S. Ogasawara, H. Tamiaki, "Synthesis of methyl (132R/S)-alkyl-pyropheophorbide a and a non-epimerized chlorophyll a mimic," Bioorg. Med. Chem., 23, 6612–6621 (2015).
D. Han, J. Du, T. Kobayashi, T. Miyatake, H. Tamiaki, Y. Li, Y. Leng, "Excitonic relaxation and coherent vibrational dynamics in zinc chlorin aggregates for artificial photosynthetic systems," J. Phys. Chem. B, 119, 12265–12273 (2015).
J. Harada, M. Teramura, T. Mizoguchi, Y. Tsukatani, K. Yamamoto, H. Tamiaki, "Stereochemical conversion of C3-vinyl group to 1-hydroxyethyl group in bacteriochlorophyll c by the hydratases BchF and BchV: adaptation of green sulfur bacteria to limited-light environments," Mol. Microbiol., 98, 1184–1198 (2015).[Front cover of issue number 6]
D. Han, Y. Li, J. Du, K. Wang, Y. Li, T. Miyatake, H. Tamiaki, T. Kobayashi, Y. Leng, "Ultrafast laser system based on nonlinear optical parametric amplification for laser spectroscopy," Chin. Optics Lett., 13, 121401-1–4 (2015).
M. Xu, Y. Kinoshita, S. Matsubara, H. Tamiaki, "Synthesis of chlorophyll-c derivatives by modifying natural chlorophyll-a," Photosynth. Res., 127, 335–345 (2016).
H. Tamiaki, M. Teramura, Y. Tsukatani, "Reduction Processes in Biosynthesis of Chlorophyll Molecules: Chemical Implication of Enzymatically Regio- and Stereoselective Hydrogenations in the Late Stages of Their Biosynthetic Pathway," Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 89, 161–173 (2016).
S. Shoji, T. Mizoguchi, H. Tamiaki, "In vitro self-assemblies of bacteriochlorophylls-c from Chlorobaculum tepidum and their supramolecular nanostructures," J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem., 331, 190–196 (2016).
H. Watanabe, T. Mizoguchi, H. Tamiaki, "Stereoselective self-aggregation of 31-epimerically pure amino anologs of zinc bacteriochlorophyll-d in an aqueous micelle solution," Photochem. Photobiol., 92, 276–285 (2016). [Featured paper in issue 2]
K. Kim, M. Yoshizato, S. Sasaki, H. Tamiaki, "Synthesis of chlorophyll derivatives possessing an S-substituted thiomethyl group at the 3-position and their optical properties," Tetrahedron, 72, 504–511 (2016).
H. Tamiaki, K. Tsuji, S. Machida, M. Teramura, T. Miyatake, "Transformation of carbonyl to vinylidene groups in the π-conjugated peripheral substituent of chlorophyll derivatives by Tebbe reagent," Tetrahedron Lett., 57, 788–790 (2016).
M. Teramura, J. Harada, H. Tamiaki, "In vitro stereospecific hydration activities of the 3-vinyl group of chlorophyll derivatives by BchF and BchV enzymes involved in bacteriochlorophyll c biosynthesis of green sulfur bacteria," Photosynth. Res., 130, 33–45 (2016).
Y. Tsukatani, T. Mizoguchi, J. Thweatt, M. Tank, D. A. Bryant, H. Tamiaki, "Glycolipid Analyses of light-harvesting chlorosomes from envelope protein mutants Chlorobaculum tepidum," Photosynth. Res., 128, 235–241 (2016).
M. Teramura, J. Harada, T. Mizoguchi, K. Yamamoto, H. Tamiaki, "In vitro assay of BciC showing C132-demethoxycarbonylase acitivity requisite for biosynthesis of chlorosomal chlorophyll pigments," Plant Cell Physiol., 57, 1048–1057 (2016).
H. Tamiaki, Y. Kimura, H. Watanabe, T. Miyatake, "Synthesis of methyl pyropheophorbide-d derivatives possessing the 3-acyl groups and their electronic absorption spectra," Tetrahedron, 72, 3477–3489 (2016).
Y. Kinoshita, Y. Kitagawa, H. Tamiaki, "Enhancement of light absorption ability of synthetic chlorophyll derivatives by conjugation with difluoroboron diketonate group," Chem. Eur. J., 22, 9996–10001 (2016). [Inside cover of issue number 29]
H. Tamiaki, K. Tsuji, M. Kuno, Y. Kimura, H. Watanabe, T. Miyatake, "Synthesis of chlorophyll-a derivatives methylated in the 3-vinyl group and their intrinsic site energy," Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 26, 3034–3037 (2016).
S. Shoji, T. Ogawa, T. Hashishin, S. Ogasawara, H. Watanabe, H. Usami, H. Tamiaki, "Nanotubes of biomimetic supramolecules constructed by synthetic metal chlorophyll derivatives," Nano Lett., 16, 3650–3654 (2016).
H. Tamiaki, K. Tsuji, K. Kim, T. Miyatake, "Preparation of mono-vinylated and formylated chlorophyll derivatives and their optical properties," Tetrahedron, 72, 4368–4376 (2016).
S. Matsubara, M. Kunieda, A. Wada, S. Sasaki, H. Tamiaki, "Visible and near-infrared spectra of chlorosomal zinc chlorin self-aggregates dependent on their peripheral substituents at the 8-position," J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem., 330, 195–199 (2016).
M. Li, Y. Li, S. Sasaki, J. Song, C. Wang, H. Tamiaki, W. Tian, G. Chen, T. Miyasaka, X.-F. Wang, "Dopant-free zinc chlorophyll aggregates as efficient biocompatible hole-transporter for pervoskite solar cells," ChemSusChem, 9, 2862–2869 (2016).
D. Han, B. Xue, J. Du, T. Kobayashi, T. Miyatake, H. Tamiaki, X. Xing, W. Yuan, Y. Li, Y. Leng, "Excitonic and vibrational coherence in artificial photosynthetic systems studied by negative-time ultrafast laser sepctroscopy," Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18, 24252–24260 (2016).
H. Tamiaki, K. Mizutani, S. Sasaki, T. Tatebe, "Rotational isomerization of 3-substituents in synthetic chlorophyll derivatives," Tetrahedron, 72, 6626–6633 (2016).