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Akio Baba is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and specializes in materials science with a focus on materials chemistry. Their research extends into organic chemistry, global and planetary change, mechanical engineering, and fields related to management, monitoring, policy, and law. The core themes of their work revolve around crystallization and solubility studies, as well as X-ray diffraction in crystallography.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry

Akio Baba has published frequently in several scientific venues, most notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Landscape and Ecological Engineering
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Tetrahedron
  • Microscopy and Microanalysis

Among recent publications co-authored by Akio Baba are:

  • Projected trends in ecosystem service valuation in response to land use land cover dynamics in Kishtwar High Altitude National Park, India, 2024, Landscape and Ecological Engineering
  • Selective Activation of Aromatic Aldehydes Promoted by Dispersion Interactions: Steric and Electronic Factors of a π-Pocket within Cage-Shaped Borates for Molecular Recognition, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Synthesis of β-cyanoalanine and enantiomerically enriched aspartate derivatives via the Zn- or In-mediated nucleophilic addition to α-imino esters, 2020, Tetrahedron
  • CCDC 1428974: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2020, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CCDC 2015164: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2020, The Cambridge Structural Database

Collaborations with frequent co-authors form a significant part of Akio Baba's work. These include collaborations with:

  • Makoto Yasuda
  • Daiki Tanaka
  • Yuya Tsutsui
  • Akihito Konishi
  • Koichi Nakaoka

Best Publications

  • Direct carbon-carbon bond formation from alcohols and active methylenes, alkoxyketones, or indoles catalyzed by indium trichloride.

    Makoto Yasuda;Toshio Somyo;Akio Baba

  • Direct reduction of alcohols: highly chemoselective reducing system for secondary or tertiary alcohols using chlorodiphenylsilane with a catalytic amount of indium trichloride.

    Makoto Yasuda;Yoshiyuki Onishi;Masako Ueba;Takashi Miyai

  • Direct substitution of the hydroxy group in alcohols with silyl nucleophiles catalyzed by indium trichloride.

    Makoto Yasuda;Takahiro Saito;Masako Ueba;Akio Baba

  • Direct coupling reaction between alcohols and silyl compounds : Enhancement of lewis acidity of Me3SiBr using InCl3

    Takahiro Saito;Yoshihiro Nishimoto;Makoto Yasuda;Akio Baba

  • In Situ Observation of Nonequilibrium Local Heating as an Origin of Special Effect of Microwave on Chemistry

    Yasunori Tsukahara;Ayano Higashi;Tomohisa Yamauchi;Takashi Nakamura

  • Indium(III) chloride-sodium borohydride system: a convenient radical reagent for an alternative to tributyltin hydride system.

    Katsuyuki Inoue;Akemi Sawada;Ikuya Shibata;Akio Baba

  • Cycloaddition reaction of heterocumulenes with oxiranes catalyzed by organotin iodide-Lewis base complex

    Ikuya Shibata;Akio Baba;Hiroyuki Iwasaki;Haruo Matsuda

  • Cross-Coupling Reaction of α-Chloroketones and Organotin Enolates Catalyzed by Zinc Halides for Synthesis of γ-Diketones

    Makoto Yasuda;Shoki Tsuji;Yusuke Shigeyoshi;Akio Baba

  • Carbonate Formation from Oxiranes and Carbon Dioxide Catalyzed by Organotin Halide-Tetraalkylphosphonium Halide Complexes

    Akio Baba;Takashi Nozaki;Haruo Matsuda

  • Indium trichloride catalyzed reductive Friedel-Crafts alkylation of aromatics using carbonyl compounds

    Takashi Miyai;Yoshiyuki Onishi;Akio Baba

  • Tetraphenylstibonium triflate as a regio- and chemoselective catalyst in the reaction of oxiranes with amines

    Masahiro Fujiwara;Makoto Imada;Akio Baba;Haruo Matsuda

  • Indium-Catalyzed Direct Chlorination of Alcohols Using Chlorodimethylsilane−Benzil as a Selective and Mild System

    Makoto Yasuda;Satoshi Yamasaki;Yoshiyuki Onishi;Akio Baba

  • Practical and simple synthesis of substituted quinolines by an HCl-DMSO system on a large scale: remarkable effect of the chloride ion.

    Shin-Ya Tanaka;Makoto Yasuda;Akio Baba

  • Catalytic Generation of Indium Hydride in a Highly Diastereoselective Reductive Aldol Reaction

    Ikuya Shibata;Hirofumi Kato;Tatsuya Ishida;Makoto Yasuda

  • Triethylsilane-indium(III) chloride system as a radical reagent.

    Naoki Hayashi;Ikuya Shibata;Akio Baba

  • Regio‐ and Stereoselective Generation of Alkenylindium Compounds from Indium Tribromide, Alkynes, and Ketene Silyl Acetals

    Yoshihiro Nishimoto;Ryosuke Moritoh;Makoto Yasuda;Akio Baba

  • Novel Synthetic Usage of Indium Compounds as Catalyst: Reductive Deoxygenation of Aryl Ketones and sec-Benzylic Alcohols

    Takashi Miyai;Masako Ueba;Akio Baba

  • Indium(III) Chloride/Chlorotrimethylsilane as a Highly Active Lewis Acid Catalyst System for the Sakurai−Hosomi Reaction

    Yoshiyuki Onishi;Takeshi Ito;Makoto Yasuda;Akio Baba

  • Novel reductive Friedel-Crafts alkylation of aromatics catalyzed by indium compounds: Chemoselective utilization of carbonyl moieties as alkylating reagents

    Takashi Miyai;Yoshiyuki Onishi;Akio Baba

  • Direct conversion of carbonyl compounds into organic halides: indium(III) hydroxide-catalyzed deoxygenative halogenation using chlorodimethylsilane.

    Yoshiyuki Onishi;Daigo Ogawa;Makoto Yasuda;Akio Baba

Frequent Co-Authors

Makoto Yasuda
Makoto Yasuda Osaka University
Hiroshi Matsuda
Hiroshi Matsuda Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Shinya Tanaka
Shinya Tanaka Hokkaido University
Noboru Sonoda
Noboru Sonoda Kansai University
Yuji Wada
Yuji Wada Tokyo Institute of Technology
Nobuaki Kambe
Nobuaki Kambe Osaka University
Ken-ichiro Hayashi
Ken-ichiro Hayashi Okayama University of Science
Ilhyong Ryu
Ilhyong Ryu Osaka Metropolitan University
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Hiroyuki Tanaka Kyushu University
Jun Terao
Jun Terao University of Tokyo

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