Yasuhiro Kobori
Professor
chemistry
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Yasuhiro Kobori is a professor of the department of chemistry at the University of Kobe, Japan.
Research Interest
In the natural photosynthesis, the organic solar cells and the photocatalysis, transient radical species or carriers are immediately generated by the light-induced chemical reactions for the photo-energy conversion, providing essential sources of the living energies. However, we do not know how those transient molecules are initially interacting each other before the carrier-conductions take place. In our group, we are developing experimental methodologies to determine molecular positions, orbital orientations and orbital overlap (electronic coupling) in the initially generated radical-pairs or electron-hole pairs in the photoactive proteins, in the solar cells, and in the photocatalysis on the basis of the transient electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopies. Using these methods, we are clarifying several fundamental mechanisms of the energy-conversions in the photosynthesis and in the organic thin film solar cells.
Publications
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Geometries, Electronic Couplings, and Hole Dissociation Dynamics of Photoinduced Electron-Hole Pairs in Polyhexylthiophene-Fullerene Dyads Rigidly Linked by Oligophenylenes†T. Miura, R. Tao, S. Shibata, T. Umeyama, T. Tachikawa, *H. Imahori, *Y. Kobori, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 5879-5885 (2016).
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"Self-Assembled Molecular Gear: A 4:1 Complex of Rh(III)Cl Tetraarylporphyrin and Tetra(p-pyridyl)cavitand†M. Nakamura, K. Kishimoto, *Y. Kobori, T. Abe, K. Yoza, *K. Kobayashi, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 12564-12577 (2016).
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"Regulated Electron Tunneling of Photoinduced Primary Charge-Separated State in the Photosystem II Reaction Center†M. Hasegawa, H. Nagashima, R. Minobe, T. Tachikawa, *H. Mino and *Y. Kobori, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 1179-1184 (2017).
