Takeshi Akasaka & Atsuhiro Osuka 
Chemical Science of π-Electron Systems [PDF ebook] 

Dibenzopentalenes and Related Compounds.- Synthesis of a Porphyrin-fused π-Electron System.- Higher-order π-Electron Systems Based on Helicene Molecules.- Planar Cyclooctatetraenes and Related Ring Systems: Antiaromaticity and Applications.- Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Solid-state Optical Properties of Substituted Tetracenes.- Chiral Sumanene, Triazasumanene, and Related Buckybowls.- Heteroatom-containing Sumanenes.- Open-cage Fullerene Derivatives: Synthesis, Reactions and Encapsulation of a Small Molecule.- Endohedral Metallofullerenes: From Chemical Reactivity to Material Performance.- Tuning Physical Properties and Structures of π-Electron System formed by Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes with Selected Chiralities.- Recent Progress on the Chemical Reactions of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.- Novel π-Conjugated Systems Based on N-Confused Porphyrinoids.- Heteroatom-modified Porphyrinoids.- Synthesis of Novel Porphyrinoids from Dipyrrins.- Möbius Aromatic and Antiaromatic Expanded Porphyrins.- Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Phthalocyanines as Functional Chromophores.- Localized Singlet 1, 3-Diradicals.- Unique Orbital Interactions in the Ground and Electronically Excited States of Biradicals Brought About by the Existence of ‘Twisted π -Space’.- Recent Progress in Stable High-Spin Molecules Based on Nitroxide Radicals.- Organic Chemistry of Graphene Framework.- Boron-Containing π-Electron Systems.- Doubly-Bonded Silicon Compounds Showing Intramolecular Charge Transfer Transitions.- π-Conjugated Disilenes and Tetrasilacyclobutadiene.- Tin-containing π-Electron Systems.- Supramolecular Structures and Photoelectronic Properties of π-Complexes Composed of Self-Assembling Cyclic Porphyrin Dimers and Fullerenes.- Sequence Control of π-Electron Systems.- Integrated π-Electron System on Artificial Cell Membranes.- Supramolecular Porphyrin Nanorods for Light Energy Conversion.- Metal Nano-particle/Porphyrinoid Hybrids.-Control of Chiral π-Space in Highly-Organized π-Conjugated Polymer Nanotube Composites and Their Functions.- Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Functions of π-Electron Donor-Acceptor Supramolecular Complexes.- Fused π-Electron Systems Containing Group 15 Elements and Their Application to Organic Electronics.- Fullerene Derivatives for Organic Solar Cells.- Efficient Organic Devices Based on π-Electron systems: Comparative Study of Fullerene Derivatives Blended with a High Efficiency Naphthobisthiadiazole-Based Polymer for Organic Photovoltaic Applications.- Solution-processed Organic Thin-film Transistors.- Unveiling Charge Carrier Transport in π-Conjugated Molecular Wire on Micro and Macroscopic Scales.- STM Characterization of π-Electron Systems.- Light Amplification in Low-Dimensional Crystals of Thiophene/Phenylene Co-Oligomer Derivatives.- Electron Transfer Pathway Analysis in Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Center.- Spectroscopic Analysis of the Redox Reactions of π-Conjugated Cofactors in Photosynthetic Reaction Center.- Protein-controlled Isomerization in Rhodopsins.- β-Diketiminates as Redox Non-innocent Supporting Ligands in Coordination Chemistry.- Novel Functions of π-Electron Systems in a Heme-DNA Complex.- Increasing the Hole Transfer Rate through DNA by Chemical Modification.- Theoretical Calculations of Excitation-Energy Transfer.